Welcome to ‘Will I Get Fired For This?,’ an occasionally recurring column in which staff writer Charles Holmes — whose duties include but are not limited to watching and writing about music videos — watches a new music video that he fears will get him fired. Read the previous entry …
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A documentary about one of Nashville’s most celebrated and important venues will premiere at the 2019 South by Southwest Film Festival: Bluebird tells the story of the Bluebird Cafe, which has been a launching pad for new songwriters since 1982. Situated in a nondescript strip mall in the city’s Green …
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Pixies will issue a new studio album in September and document the recording process with an upcoming behind-the-scenes podcast, “Past Is Prologue, Pixies.” The alt-rock band recorded their as-yet-untitled seventh LP with producer Tom Dalgety, who helmed their most recent record, 2016’s Head Carrier. The quartet —singer-guitarist Black Francis, guitarist …
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As a vital member of L.A.’s Wrecking Crew, the group of ace studio musicians who backed countless recordings in the Sixties and Seventies, guitarist Glen Campbell was heard on songs that ran the gamut from the sunshine pop of the Partridge Family to the gritty R&B of Ike and Tina …
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Foo Fighters announced Friday that the band’s pre-Super Bowl concert in Atlanta would live-stream on February 2nd, the night before Super Bowl LIII. The band trumpeted the Super Saturday Night live-stream with a humorous, Dave Grohl-directed short inspired by the prison football film The Longest Yard, with the Foo Fighters …
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The Beach Boys Wake the World: The Friends Sessions Capitol 4 stars I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions Capitol 3.5 stars Brian Wilson once conceded that whilePet Soundsmay be his best album,Friendswas his favorite. Released in 1968, shortly after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, …
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Soft birdsong is the first sound to appear on “Wilderness,” the opening track of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Maya de Vitry’s debut solo record, Adaptations. This subtle chorus from nature recalls the secluded Pennsylvania cabin retreat where the former Stray Birds leader camped out to write a good deal of the …
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Vince Staples is matter-of-fact: about his music, about his upbringing in Long Beach and about his sobriety. If anything, the FM!rapper has become more direct and slightly prickly explaining his choice to avoid alcohol and drugs over his career — an understandable decision, considering how quickly outside observers tend pigeonhole …
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Jason Aldean has announced dates for a new summer tour. Titled the Ride All Night Tour after a track on his latest album, Rearview Town, the run will kick off in May with two shows at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The trek builds on Aldean’s last multi-city tour, …
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Gary Clark Jr. previewed his upcoming LP This Land by playing two new songs, the title-track and “Feed the Babies,” on Thursday’s Late Show. The guitarist showcased his eclecticism with the two cuts. On “This Land,” which he released in its studio form earlier that day, he leaned into the …
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