Travis Barker delivered a 13-minute, uninterrupted solo drum performance — that included a pair of classic Blink-182 songs — on Kai Cenat’s marathon Twitch stream. For the past month, Cenat’s been doing his non-stop “Mafiathon 2” stream, trying to break the record for most paid Twitch subscribers (with some of …
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Gwen Stefani stepped into a time machine with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots on The Tonight Show to perform her 2005 hit “Hollaback Girl.” Using a banana as a microphone, The Voice host sang the foot-stomping track as Fallon and the house band shook tinsel-colored pom poms and performed with …
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Rufus and Martha Wainwright are launching a new initiative in honor of their late mother, Kate McGarrigle, to provide musicians living with aggressive cancer time in professional recording studios. “Folk Cancer: The Kate McGarrigle Project” was inspired by the way McGarrigle — an accomplished singer-songwriter who worked closely with her …
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The Weeknd‘s Hurry Up Tomorrow, the last installment in his musical trilogy, will release on Jan. 24. The album will follow 2020’sAfter Hoursand 2022’sDawn FM. To mark the occasion, the artist will take over the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, for a one-night-only live show on Jan. 25. The …
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Ringo Starr seems to have confirmed that Barry Keoghan will play him in the Starr-centric film in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic. Speaking with Entertainment Tonight this week, the Beatles drummer weighed in when asked about the rumored casting, telling the network, “I think he’s great, I believe he’s somewhere …
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New Zealand jangle-pop band the Chills will release a new album of previously unreleased songs in February. The album,Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs,arrives following thedeath of frontmanMartin Phillipps. The singer-songwriter, who was battling liver disease, died in July at the age of61. Spring Board assembles 20 archival recordings, and …
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A rare, eight-page draft letter John Lennon wrote to Eric Clapton in 1971, pitching him on a new musical project at one of the most tumultuous times in Clapton’s life, is headed to auction. This copy of the missive is dated Sept. 29, 1971 and it contains various deletions and …
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Steve Albini Way received its official designation during a ceremony featuring his widow Heather Whinna, Kim Deal, Electrical Audio staff, and others in Chicago on Monday. The public event drew a large crowd of fans and friends to the stretch of West Belmont Avenue that flanks Albini’s Electrical Audio studio …
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Marilyn Manson has dropped a lawsuit he filed against Evan Rachel Wood and abandoned a related appeal attempting to revive his previous defamation claim. The musician has agreed to pay nearly $327,000 in Wood’s attorneys’ fees, according to legal documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Wood’s attorneys Michael Kump, Shawn Holley, …
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Drake is doubling down in his ongoing legal war against his own label and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” filing a new legal action in Texas that alleges Universal Music Group knowingly allowed Lamar to call him a “certified pedophile” as it sought to “drive consumer hysteria and, of course, …
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