After the launch of the NBCUniversal-backed streaming service Peacock, the number of available streamers on the market right now is approximately a billion. (Note: This is only an estimate. The actual number may be higher.) As Peacock joins Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Disney+, CBS All Access, Apple …
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Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a new licensing partnership Wednesday that could align the world’s biggest music label with the streaming service’s long-awaited “two-sided marketplace” — which would funnel additional money back from the record industry into Spotify’s pockets. The new multiyear global contract “further aligns [our] efforts to …
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Dave Mason has rerecorded his 1968 Traffic classic “Feelin’ Alright’” for the quarantine age with help from Sammy Hagar, Mick Fleetwood, Michael McDonald and the Doobie Brothers. The song wasn’t a huge hit when it appeared on the first Traffic record, but it’s since been covered by everyone from Joe …
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To mark what would have been his 56th birthday (July 20th), the Chris Cornell estate has shared the musician’s previously unreleased cover of Guns N’ Roses’ classic 1989 ballad, “Patience.” Cornell doesn’t stray too far from the original as he breaks out the acoustic guitar for the cover, but his …
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Keith Urban has his A-ha moment with the video for his new song “Superman.” Featuring a pencil-drawn flipbook caricature of the guitarist, the clip evokes the groundbreaking 1985 animation of “Take on Me.” “Superman” the song is equally Eighties. Like in his 2017 hit “The Fighter,” Urban embraces synth and …
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My Morning Jacket recently released their album The Waterfall II, a sequel to The Waterfall that’s been shelved since 2015. With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the band will have to wait a little longer to play the songs in front of a live audience, but they appeared on The Tonight Show Wednesday …
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Where are all the women? According to Rolling Stone‘s just-published rankings of the biggest songs and albums of the first half of 2020, female artists are vastly underrepresented. Among the Top 100, there are only 19 songs and 17 albums by women. When compared with all of 2019, the number …
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Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show returned to the studio on Monday following a run of “At Home” episodes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The July 13th installment, which follows four months of the shifted format, was filmed in a modified Studio 6-A at their home base in New York City’s …
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The president of the United States finally decided to act like an adult on Saturday and wore a face mask during his visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington. This marks the first time the president has been seen in public wearing a facial covering that his …
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When Shaggy released Hot Shot in the summer of 2000, many in the music industry were ready to write him off. It had been five long years since the Jamaican-born reggae artist landed high on the American charts with “Boombastic” and his follow-up LP, 1997’s Midnight Star, was such a …
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