First-round Grammy voting gets underway on September 30th and runs through October 12th. For our 2021 Grammy preview issue, we asked a series of likely contenders for next year’s awards to reflect on their past experiences at the ceremony, look ahead to the future, and discuss the albums and singles …
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Weezer and Fall Out Boy squared off in a game of Celebrity Family Feud that aired Sunday night, September 20th. Because both alt-rock powerhouses are quartets, each had to bring in an extra member, with Weezer tapping producer, songwriter and regular collaborator Suzy Shinn, while Fall Out Boy enlisted comedian …
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Tears for Fears have shared a previously unreleased version of their song “Standing on the Corner of the Third World,” taken off of the upcoming Super Deluxe box set edition of their album Seeds of Love. This Townhouse Live Jam Session version of the song was recorded in 1988, and …
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Phoebe Bridgers wrapped a week of televised and virtual performances Saturday with an appearance on CBS This Morning, where the singer showcased three tracks from her 2020 LP Punisher. For the morning show’s weekly “Saturday Sessions,” Bridgers, her skeleton getup and her backing band delivered “Kyoto,” “Garden Song” and the …
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Best Coast have released a surprise live EP titled Live at the World Cafe via Concord Records. The collection features some of the band’s earliest live renditions of songs from their newest album,Always Tomorrow, released in February 2020, as well as songs from 2015’s California Nights. “Today we share with …
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Quiet Riot will carry on touring following the death of drummer Frankie Banali, the group’s strongest thread back to its chart-topping heyday. The band, which now features former Type O Negative and Danzig drummer Johnny Kelly behind the kit, intends to play a couple of shows next month and a …
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Punk legend David Johansen issues a mayday call in the video for his cover of Winston Edward Peters’ “Sinking Ship”: Vote before it’s too late. The New York Dolls frontman gets straight to the point in the clip directed by his daughter Leah Hennessey. The calypso rhythms belie the deep …
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In mid-August, Devin Dawson released “I Got a Truck” as the first offering from his upcoming second album, the follow-up to his major label debut Dark Horse. An appropriately driving song about a young person with a dream, the video centers on a truck as the vehicle to get them …
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Nashville singer-songwriter Becky Warren has announced plans for her new album, The Sick Season. Due October 23rd, the project’s first release is the pensive rocker “Me and These Jeans.” On Warren’s previous two solo albums, War Surplus and Undesirable, she took stories of war veterans and the homeless population, respectively, …
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The Slits‘ Viv Albertine is adapting her two memoirs for television after selling the rights to the producers behind Carol, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Albertine has published two memoirs, 2014’s Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, and 2018’s To Throw Away Unopened. The former chronicled her …
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