Future Islands capture their enthralling live performances in the new video for “Beauty of the Road.” The track appears on the indie group’s latest album, The Far Field. The Jay Buim-directed clip arrives as Future Islands wrap up their extensive 2017 touring schedule, at the end of which they’ll have …
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In late 2012, Stone Temple Pilots once again found themselves in an impossible situation. They’d been gigging with Scott Weiland for four years at this point and even managed to cut a new album with him in 2010, but he’d begun showing up very late for concerts and acting erratically …
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U2‘s Bono delivered a smoky rendition of the Frank Sinatra classic “One for My Baby” with help from Coldplay‘s Chris Martin and Sean Penn on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. The episode was devoted to (Red)’s efforts to raise money and awareness for the fight against AIDS. Shot in black-and-white aside …
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Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio has announced a solo acoustic tour that will travel the eastern half of the United States in February. The nine-date trek kicks off February 8th at Morristown, New Jersey’s Mayo Performing Arts Center and works its way south before concluding February 18th at Athens, Georgia’s Classic …
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The unsolved murder of Tupac Shakur is to this day one of the most widely debated homicides in music history – even now, over 21 years later, people still speculate about what exactly happened that night. This is what we know for sure: On the evening of September 7th, 1996, …
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R.E.M., Automatic For the People (25th Anniversary Edition)The remastered edition of R.E.M.’s 1992 masterpiece, which Rolling Stone named one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, gets packaged with demos from the band’s fertile early-Nineties period and a live recording from the 40 Watt Club, the storied rock venue …
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Van Morrison has announced his upcoming 38th studio album Versatile, which arrives less than three months after the singer released his 37th studio album Roll With the Punches. While Roll With the Punches, released in September, found Morrison reinterpreting the work of blues and soul legends like Sam Cooke, Bo …
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A$AP Ferg teamed up with famed producer DJ Premier – whose productions buoyed classic albums from Gang Starr, Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z, among others – for “Our Streets,” a new collaboration full of head-nod-inducing drum loops, tuneful soul samples and the sounds of scratching vinyl. On his albums, Ferg frequently …
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Migos enlisted Nicki Minaj and Cardi B for “MotorSport,” the first single from their upcoming third LP, Culture 2. The Georgia hip-hop trio boast about wealth and reminisce about their childhoods over gritty trap rhythms from producers Murda Beatz (Drake, Gucci Mane) and CuBeatz (Lil Uzi Vert). “Fix all your …
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Christmas queen Mariah Carey has recorded another nativity-themed, adult-contemporary holiday ballad, which will appear in the upcoming animated movie The Star. “Strong and wise, keeping the Lord as your guide,” she sings on “The Star.” “And through the doubt you realize He’s with you all the while … follow that …
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