The Mountain Goats, Los Lobos, and Rickie Lee Jones are among the acts set to appear at the always intriguing Big Ears Festival, returning to Knoxville, Tennessee, from March 30 through April 2, 2023. The 2023 festival — which is held at a variety of venues around Knoxville — will …
Read More »Tinashe and Snakehips Bring Back the Feeling on 'Who's Gonna Love You Tonight'
Tinashe and Snakehips have reunited for some lovelorn electro-pop longing on “Who’s Gonna Love You Tonight” The sweet-voiced singer and U.K. production duo first collaborated on 2015’s anti-club banger “All My Friends” featuring Chance the Rapper as well. On their latest, Tinashe coos delicate concerns to a wayward paramour: “Who’s …
Read More »Pearl Jam Dig Deep at Scorching Hot Apollo Theater Show
Pearl Jam were about halfway through their special concert for SirusXM at Harlem’s Apollo Theater on Saturday night when Eddie Vedder’s mind went to Bessie Smith’s residency at the venue way back in 1935. “She played here four weeks in a row at one point,” he told the audience. “She …
Read More »Fall Out Boy Set Aside a Back-to-Rock Album – and Four More Things We Learned From Joe Trohman
“I am a pretty normal guy in a very extraordinary situation, that I’m still trying to navigate,” says Fall Out Boy co-founder and lead guitarist Joe Trohman, whose first book, None of This Rocks, is out on Sept. 13. It’s a very different kind of rock memoir from most, offering …
Read More »R. Kelly Trial: Defense Rests Following Former Business Manager's Multi-Day Testimony
Chicago, IL — The defense teams in the R. Kelly federal trial at Dirksen U.S. Courthouse rested on Friday following three days of testimony from the disgraced singer’s former business manager and co-defendant. On Derrel McDavid’s third day on the stand on Friday, he faced cross examination from the government …
Read More »Taylor Swift Has Us All Thinking About the Scarf From 'All Too Well' Again
We might be OK, but we’re actually not fine at all after Taylor Swift suggested that the scarf from her fan-favorite epic ballad “All Too Well” might not actually be lingering in the drawer of a former flame. In fact, the scarf with the power to remind ex-lovers of innocence …
Read More »'We Say Goodbye': Duran Duran Honors Queen Elizabeth II at Hollywood Bowl
Duran Duran honored Queen Elizabeth II with a dramatic rendition of their 1982 ballad “Save A Prayer,” played to a sea of cell phone lights at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Friday night. “So, you know that it’s a real sad time for a lot of us Brits, …
Read More »How Ozzy Came Back From Hell
AS SOON AS a pair of silver vans arrive at the VIP entrance of Birmingham, England’s Alexander Stadium, the whispers start. “Is that Sharon Osbourne?” a squinting security guard asks her friend. “I think so,” the other guard says. “Does that mean … ?” The drivers keep security in the dark …
Read More »Meghan Trainor Strikes a Work-Life Balance on New Single 'Don't I Make It Look Easy'
Meghan Trainor has crafted a clever ode to her work-life balance with her new song “Don’t I Make It Look Easy,” the latest single from her upcoming album Takin’ It Back. “When I started recording the album I was learning how to be a working mom,” Trainor said in a …
Read More »Brandi Carlile Will Tower Over You in a Live IMAX Concert
Brandi Carlile’s new album In the Canyon Haze reimagines the songs on her 2021 LP In These Silent Days through the lens of L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. On release day, Sept. 28, Carlile and her band will bring the album to vivid life with a live performance broadcast to IMAX theaters. …
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