Stephen Malkmus showcased two new songs at a concert in Portland, the musician’s first show since 2019. Performing at venue the Alberta Abbey, Malkmus and his band also played Pavement’s “Father To A Sister Of Thought.” The new songs, titled “MTV” and “Making Friends,” have yet to be officially released. …
Read More »Taylor Swift Is the First Global Record Store Day Ambassador
Taylor Swift, who has long supported independent music shops and vinyl culture, will serve as Record Store Day Ambassador for this year’s event, set to take place on April 23. The artist is the event’s first global ambassador. Over the years, the singer-songwriter has put out special releases for both …
Read More »See Kacey Musgraves Open New Tour With Dramatic, Flaming 'Star-Crossed'
Kacey Musgraves began her Star-Crossed: Unveiled Tour in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday night, opening the first show of the tour with the title track to her latest album, Star-Crossed. Similar to her performance of the song at September’s MTV Video Music Awards, Musgraves sang standing in front of an …
Read More »Whoa: Keanu Reeves Joins Tibet House Lineup
UPDATE: Paul Simon, Stephen Colbert and Cyndi Lauper have joined the 2022 Tibet House benefit. – Keanu Reeves will be among the performers — yes, performers — along with artists like Patti Smith, Trey Anastasio, and Jason Isbell when the Tibet House virtually holds its annual benefit concert on March …
Read More »Hear Marianne Faithfull's Forceful 'Vagabond Ways' Demo for 'Incarceration of a Flower Child'
Marianne Faithfull will give her 1999 album, Vagabond Ways, the deluxe treatment with a reissue due out March 4. She’s teasing the release with the demo recording for the album’s “Incarceration of a Flower Child,” a song Roger Waters wrote in 1968 but never recorded with Pink Floyd. On the …
Read More »Kodak Black's Florida Trespassing Case Dropped: 'No Probable Cause to Make Arrest'
Florida prosecutors have rejected a trespassing charge against Kodak Black after the “Zeze” rapper was arrested at the Golden Acres public housing development in his Pompano Beach hometown on New Year’s Day. Broward County prosecutors made the decision Wednesday, according to paperwork filed by Broward County prosecutors and obtained by …
Read More »Britney Spears Claims Dad 'Stonewalling' With $1,200-per-Hour Lawyer on Her Dime
Britney Spears wants a judge to pull the plug on her dad’s ability to tap her fortune for his legal representation as she investigates his purported financial “self-dealing” and alleged surveillance inside her home during her 13-year conservatorship. In a new filing ahead of a court showdown Wednesday, the pop …
Read More »Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Hit Vegas for Silk Sonic Residency
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are bringing their Seventies soul to Las Vegas for An Evening with Silk Sonic. The newly announced residency is currently slated to run for 13 dates from Feb. 25 through April 2 at Park MGM’s Dolby Live. The duo first shared the news on social …
Read More »Daniel Radcliffe to Play the Role He Was Born for… 'Weird Al' Yankovic
As strange as this may sound, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s life is going to be the subject of a biopic, and Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to play him. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story will be Roku’s first original biopic. It will be written by Funny or Die’s Eric Appel along …
Read More »Bono Gets 'Just So Embarrassed' When He Hears His Voice on U2's Early Songs
Bono‘s “bout of embarrassment” with U2 isn’t related to the force-downloaded Songs of Innocence album that hit everyone’s iTunes accounts in 2014. His face flushes “scarlet” when he listens to his own voice on some of the band’s early songs — and when he hears his iconic group’s name. “I’ve …
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