In March 2020, when a lethal twister tore through East Nashville just days before an even more devastating pandemic, the storied Woodland Sound Studios — home to the likes of Tammy Wynette’s Soft Touch, Indigo Girls’ Swamp Ophelia, Jimmy Buffett’s A1A, and scores of cherished others — stood tall in …
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Oasis may or may not be finally reuniting this week, and Liam Gallagher is only stoking the rumors with the singer’s social media activity this weekend. Amid this weekend’s Reading Festival — which the Britpop band headlined 24 years ago today in 2000 — reports emerged that the Gallagher brothers …
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There’s never been a pop-girl summer anything like 2024 — ever — and Sabrina Carpenter is one of the crucial reasons why. With “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” she can claim two prime Song of the Summer contenders. But she caps off her amazing ascendance with Short n’ Sweet, her …
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A federal judge has granted the Isaac Hayes estate an emergency hearing in their $3 million demand against Donald Trump, who has continually used “Hold On, I’m Coming,” co-written by Hayes, on the campaign trail. Earlier this month, the Hayes estate filed a cease-and-desist and asked for $3 million related …
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Chris Hemsworth can wield a large hammer, but can he manage drumsticks? As Ed Sheeran fans in Romania found out, the actor could keep a beat as drummed onstage for “Thinking Out Loud” during the singer’s Bucharest concert Saturday. As the duo revealed on social media soon after, Hemsworth’s onstage …
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Post Malone‘s country debut F-1 Trillion is the Number One album on the Billboard chart, the publication confirmed on Sunday, marking his first chart-topping album since Hollywood’s Bleeding in 2019. It also topped the Hot Country chart, the outlet announced. F-1 Trillion was a clear contender for the Number One …
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Onstage Friday night at Atlanta’s Chastain Park, Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr sang about home in the slow-burn rock ballad “Azalea,” a track off the group’s latest album Be Right Here: “Maybe it’s not out there/Maybe this leads nowhere/Home will always be right here.” For Blackberry Smoke, home is Atlanta. Since …
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Over the past few years, everyone from Kiss and the Eagles to Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Aerosmith, the B-52’s, Foreigner, Dead and Company, and Lynyrd Skynyrd have launched farewell tours. But when Bruce Springsteen played Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park on Friday night, he made it very clear …
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“Too twiddly didn’t really exist to us, in our minds,” guitar legend Steve Howe of Yes says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, explaining the musical mission of his band — and of prog-rock itself. “There wasn’t really such a thing. If you could play it, then …
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Drake has surprise released a trio of new songs through his burner Instagram account @plottttwistttttt on Friday, weeks after he leaked three other songs earlier this month. The new songs are titled ““Circadian Rhythm,” “SOD,”and “No Face,” the latter of which features Playboi Carti. “SOD” appears to be the same …
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