DaBaby and Roddy Ricch took “Rockstar” to glamorous new heights at the 2021 Grammy Awards on Sunday. DaBaby, decked out in an all-white suit with Chanel pins and diamond gloves, simultaneously performed the track while conducting singers dressed like Supreme Court justices. Roddy Rich joined him onstage for his verses …
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Nick Cave has opened up about his songwriting process and his personal life in recent years, answering questions from fans directly at unique “conversation” tour dates and taking more queries online for his Red Hand Files project. Now his life is literally an open book. A new folio, Stranger Than …
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Brandy Clark briefly thought quarantine might just be a short break to recharge from a hard winter touring season. Instead, it came close to swallowing up her ambitious third album. “I was like, OK, this is going to be a nice 10-day break,” she says. “But then as it became …
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Sofia Kourtesis’ “Sarita Colonia” builds for more than two full minutes before reaching a jittery, crushing cruising altitude full of stuttering drums and slicing horns. The track was released in early 2020, but its fizzy mid-section, crackling with the energy of an electrical fire, kept it fresh in our minds …
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The endless soap opera that is Fleetwood Mac took a turn earlier this week when Mick Fleetwood told Rolling Stone that he’s back on speaking terms with Lindsey Buckingham and wants to make music with him again. “It doesn’t have to be in Fleetwood Mac,” he said. “And Fleetwood Mac …
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Patti Smith will celebrate Bob Dylan‘s 80th birthday in May at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s outdoor Spring Festival. Held at a 153-acre campus in Tivoli, New York, the festival will take place during the last two weekends in May (20th-23rd and 27th-30th). Smith will perform on the 22nd, two days before …
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John Burks, Rolling Stone’s first managing editor who helped guide the rock magazine’s coverage of political issues, died earlier this month at the age of 83. Burks’ wife Deborah Nagle-Burks confirmed her husband’s death to the San Francisco Chronicle, adding that he died at their Pacifica home on February 17th …
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Marianne Faithfull pays tribute to England’s great romantic poets on her new album, She Walks in Beauty, which she made in collaboration with Bad Seeds and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis. They’re previewing the record with her reading of Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty,” which he wrote in June …
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Thomas Rhett will return to the concert stage in front of a live audience for three socially-distanced shows at Billy Bob’s, the Fort Worth, Texas, honky-tonk. Rhett’s full-band gigs are set for May 6th through 8th and follow five shows by Miranda Lambert at the venue. “Man, it feels good …
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Black Pumas delivered a pristine performance of their song “Know You Better” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday, February 18th. The Austin duo performed the simmering soul tune with the help of a small backing band and a pair of vocalists who layered harmonies beneath frontman Eric Burton’s delicate croon. After …
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