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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“When it rains, it pours,” goes the chorus to Luke Combs‘ latest single, and it couldn’t be more appropriate for the Nashville singer’s life these days. With the song from his debut LPThis One’s for Youclimbing to Number Two on the country charts, Combs appeared on Wednesday night’s post-CMA Awards …
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Like a true-life version of Forrest Gump, Delbert McClinton witnessed, and even influenced, some of the most pivotal moments in modern music history. The Texas-born singer/harmonica master was around at the birth of rock & roll, saw firsthand the raw beginnings of the British Invasion, and helped establish Austin as …
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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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Kelsea Ballerini performed a special concert at her former high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Saturday, taking the stage to preview her new album Unapologetically. The event was part of the Tennessee Department of Tourism Development’s “The Soundtrack of America, Made in Tennessee” campaign, and Ballerini also donated $20,000 to …
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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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Little more than a year after Midwest Farmer’s Daughter became one of the most widely-praised country debuts of 2016, Margo Price is back with All American Made, her most ambitious work yet. Having staked out her own backstory and crafted her rabble-raising mythology on her debut, Price shifts her focus …
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