Chrissie Hynde is taking a break from Pretenders duty to team up with an impressive slate of vocalists — including Lucinda Williams, Dave Gahan, Brandon Flowers, Debbie Harry, and Shirley Manson — for her fourth solo LP, Duets Special. “I never thought about doing a duets album before,” Hynde says …
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Heat waves are freaking everyone out right now, including Chrissie Hynde. The Pretenders‘ lead singer took to social media to heed the warning about the future of outdoor concerts as both the U.S. and the U.K. experience record-high temperatures. “I trust you’re all surviving the heat waves,” Hynde wrote in …
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The list of artists who will be saluting Patti Smith at an upcoming tribute show in New York just grew longer. The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, director Jim Jarmusch, former Bangles frontperson Susanna Hoffs, Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, and New York rocker Jesse Malin have been added to an already eclectic …
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Josh Homme, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde, and Greg Dulli were among the friends and collaborators who paid tribute to the late Mark Lanegan ata London concertonThursday, marking what would have been the singer’s 60th birthday. Alison Mosshart, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Ed Harcourt, the Soulsavers, and Troy Van Leeuwen also …
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Earlier this month, the Pretenders kicked off a European tour, and while on the road, Chrissie Hynde was able to catch another big show: Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour. In an Instagram message, Hynde wrote about how bowled over she was by Swift. “I saw Taylor Swift (you may have heard …
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Guns N’ Roses’ summer tour has been rich in surprises: an updated and shuffling set list, the debut of the new song “Perhaps,” and guests ranging from Carrie Underwood to Andrew Dice Clay. Add Chrissie Hynde to that list. On Monday, the Pretenders leader joined Axl Rose and the band …
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Paul McCartney, with help from Chrissie Hynde and Foo Fighters, performed the Beatles classic “Oh! Darling” live for the first time Saturday at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert in London. McCartney was a surprise guest at the benefit concert — he was not listed among the participating artists prior to …
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The Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde and James Walbourne recorded an atmospheric version of Bob Dylan‘s “Standing in the Doorway” for the latest installment of their Dylan Lockdown Series. Like the original version on 1997’s Time Out of Mind, the revamped take stretches out past seven minutes, with Hynde softly singing over …
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