The expansive new Outlaws & Armadillos: Country’s Roaring ’70s exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will launch this May with the help of an all-star concert organized by Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings. Among the performers: Jason Isbell, Billy Joe Shaver, Bobby Bare and Jamey Johnson. …
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Florence and the Machine and Janet Jackson will headline the 2018 FYF Festival. The Breeders, Future, the xx, My Bloody Valentine, St. Vincent, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Car Seat Headrest, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks and more will also perform at the 15th anniversary event, scheduled for July 21st …
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Bruce Springsteen will reissue remastered versions of five albums as a new box set, The Album Collection, Vol. 2, 1987 – 1996, out May 18th via Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings. The collection includes four studio albums – Tunnel of Love, Human Touch, Lucky Town and The Ghost of Tom Joad – …
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Usher, Common, the Roots will perform at a concert in Montgomery, Alabama to commemorate the opening of a memorial to African American victims of lynching. Gary Clark, Jr., Brittany Howard, Kirk Franklin and others, yet to be announced, will also perform at what has been dubbed the Concert for Peace …
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Over the past half a century, Alice Cooper has perfected the role of rock’s greatest heel. Every night onstage, he mimes fighting and killing his costumed stagehands while singing dark-hued hits like “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s Out” until he gets his comeuppance when he’s strapped to a life-sized guillotine. So …
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Beyoncé‘s teenage R&B proteges Chloe X Halle performed a soulful version of their single “Happy Without Me” on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! The sisters crooned and swayed on a circular platform while their backing band laid down a slow, keyboard-heavy groove on the stage behind them. “And it breaks my …
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In the ongoing furor over the pilfered data on 50 million Americans taken from Facebook by Cambridge Analytica and weaponized during the 2016 election campaign on behalf of Donald Trump, attention has focused primarily on CA’s slick and fast-talking CEO, Alexander Nix, who’s been suspended from his job over the …
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Kelly Clarksonis a vision of self-confidence in the new clip for “I Don’t Think About You.” The track is the second single from her Meaning of Life LP, which reached Number Two on Billboard’s albums chart last year. “I Don’t Think About You” was produced by the Monarch, a duo …
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Freedom and safety are both fragile, but it is curious to see how often they are treated as if one will break the other. The zero-sum goes like this: The more freedom we have, the more risk that we incur. To be safe, we have to curtail liberties. But what …
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The Cadillac Three are getting their 2018 tour schedule into full gear this week, first with the kickoff of their Long Hair Don’t Care Tour here in the U.S. and also by announcing their Summer Vacation Tour set for Europe this summer. The Nashville country-rock trio tied up 2017 with …
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