Zach Bryan closed out his three-night run in New Jersey with a bang. Before the musician hit the stage on Sunday, July 20, the Bruce Springsteen record “House of a Thousand Guitars” blared throughout MetLife Stadium. It was a hometown homage to the veteran artist (“I’m Goin’ Down” opened the …
Read More »The Who Begin Post-Zak Starkey Era at 'Song Is Over' Tour Launch
The Who kicked off their Song Is Over farewell tour Sunday night at the Anfiteatro Camerini in Piazzola sul Brenta, Italy. It was their first gig since firing longtime drummer Zak Starkey and replacing him with Scott Devours, their first regular tour show without an orchestra since 2017, and the …
Read More »Billy Joel Gives Health Update After Brain Disorder Diagnosis: 'It Sounds a Lot Worse Than What I'm Feeling'
Billy Joel is opening up for the first time about his health after revealing he had been diagnosed with a brain disorder that forced him to cancel all of his upcoming concerts. “I feel fine,” the singer told Bill Maher during his recent appearance on Maher’s Club Random podcast. He …
Read More »Searching for the Real Nick Drake
I f you drive 40 minutes south of Birmingham, England, you’ll find the quiet, serene village of Tanworth-in-Arden, where fans flock year-round to visit the grave of Nick Drake, who grew up and died here more than 50 years ago. At the time of his death of an overdose at …
Read More »Chris Martin Jokingly Warns Fans About 'Jumbotron Song' at First Coldplay Gig Since Viral Moment
Chris Martin jokingly warned fans about Coldplay’s “The Jumbotron Song” during the band’s first concert since capturing a now-infamous moment at a Boston-area show earlier this week. “The Jumbotron Song” had been a stalwart of Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres Tour, but the performance went viral this week when it …
Read More »Travis Scott's 'Jackboys 2' Tops Albums Chart
Travis Scott and his Jackboys collective’s compilation album Jackboys 2 debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Billboard reports. It earned 232,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Of those, 72,000 comprise streaming equivalent albums (SEA) equaling 94.68 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs, according …
Read More »Thelonious Monk, the Teenage Weirdo, and the Battle Over a Lost Sonic Masterpiece
T he greatest lost concert in American history almost never happened at all. It was Oct. 27, 1968, in Palo Alto, California. Outside of his high school, Danny Scher, a 16-year-old, bushy-haired, jazz-obsessed, self-described “weirdo,” was pacing the parking lot waiting for his hero, and music’s most elusive and enigmatic …
Read More »Billie Eilish Reveals She's Working on 'Something Very Special' With James Cameron
Billie Eilish and filmmaker James Cameron are teaming up for “something very, very special,” the singer revealed on Saturday at her Manchester, England show at Co-op Live. “So you may have noticed there’s like more cameras than usual,” she told the sold-out crowd at the first show of her four-night …
Read More »This Texas Songwriter Watched Her RV Park Wash Away in July 4 Floods: 'Going to Haunt Me Forever'
Julia Hatfield was just one of the residents of the Blue Oak RV Park along the Guadalupe River in Ingram, Texas, when the devastating and deadly flash flood of July 4 decimated the park. Even now, she says, her neighbors are still a long way to rebuilding — and recovering. …
Read More »50 Cent's Publishing Company Sues His Ex-Girlfriend Over Videos With Relationship Claims
50 Cent‘s publishing company is suing the rapper’s ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins over Instagram videos that it says violate a life rights agreement she signed over nearly 20 years ago. The lawsuit alleges Tompkins’ videos violated a life rights agreement made in 2007 for $80,000 that gave G-Unit Books the exclusive …
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