Electric Zoo returned to Randall’s Island Park this Labor Day weekend, but not without some conflict. The first day of the festival was canceled on Friday, hours before gates opened, due to incomplete construction of the main stage. Agitated crowds breached the gates Sunday after being informed the venue reached …
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For the Rolling Stones‘ faithful fans, a very long wait is over: The seminal rock band is back with Hackney Diamonds, their first original studio album since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. The LP is set to debut worldwide on Wednesday with an exclusive YouTube livestream. The same event will feature …
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Sean “Diddy” Combs launched Bad Boy Records in 1993, quickly amassing the talent that would turn it into one of the most influential hip-hop labels of all time. Now, 30 years later, he’s assigning music publishing rights back to those artists rather than selling off the valuable catalog. Bad Boy …
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The Foo Fighters brought Billy Idol to the stage for a rollicking cover of the Sex Pistols‘ “Pretty Vacant” during Jazz Aspen Snowmass on Sunday night. While headlining the Labor Day weekend event, Idol joined frontman Dave Grohl while singing the 1977 single from the band’s only studio album Never …
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Nearly seven hours after Electric Zoo‘s gates opened on Sunday and with some three-and-a-half hours left of performances still to come at Randall’s Island in New York, festivalgoers were notified that capacity had been reached. By then, the festival gates were being breached by valid ticket holders who were being …
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Florence Welch and Ethel Cain joined forces at MEO Kalorama festival in Lisbon, Portugal yesterday to perform two songs. The appearance follows Welch’s announcement that she recently had life-saving surgery. As seen in fan footage, Welch and Cain delivered “Thoroughfare,” which appears on Cain’s debut album, 2022’s Preacher’s Daughter. The …
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Although they both established themselves as leading summer-shed troubadours of the Seventies, Jimmy Buffett and James Taylor seemed to live in different parts of a harbor: Buffett the effusive showman, Taylor the introspective loner. In fact, the two had more in common than anyone would have expected. Both were sailors, …
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Metallica were forced to postpone the second night of their M72 Weekend Takeover in Glendale, Arizona after James Hetfield came down with Covid. The band were set to return to the stadium Sunday night after playing Friday. “We’re very sorry to report that tomorrow’s scheduled M72 date at State Farm …
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Zac Brown Band paid tribute to Jimmy Buffett Saturday hours after their “Knee Deep” collaborator’s death with a performance of “Margaritaville” at the group’s concert in Gilford, New Hampshire. Brown and company had played the 1977 classic a handful of times live of the years — including a CMT Crossroads …
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Today’s country artists love to namecheck icons like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jennings in their songs and during interviews. But sonically, they owe their greatest debt to Jimmy Buffett, whose tropical vibes, beachy imagery, and ocean escapism has shaped the last two decades of mainstream country. Buffett died …
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