Gorillaz have tapped Cure frontman Robert Smith for a new song, “Strange Timez,” that marks the latest offering in the animated outfit’s ongoing Song Machine series. Befitting its title, “Strange Timez” opens with Smith and Damon Albarn sharing vocal duties over an unsettling mix of synths and drums that steadily …
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Drake notched yet another week atop the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart, pulling in 123.2 million song streams for the week of August 28th through September 3rd. The rapper’s characteristically strong streaming numbers remained bolstered by his latest single, “Laugh Now Cry Later,” which hit Number Two on the Top …
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Indie label Sacred Bones has announcedLift It Down, a “reissue” from notorious (fictional) Seventies cult leader Jeremiah Sand. As a teaser for the album, out October 30th, Sacred Bones has shared an unearthed video of Sand in his studio recording the song “Message from the Mountain,” a six-minute spiritual for …
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Miley Cyrus brought her glamorous Stevie Nicks-inspiredsingle “Midnight Sky” to the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday. Hued in various primary colors, Cyrus brought the rock star swagger from the new single’s video into her VMA performance. The live take included a few new elements, including a drum fill …
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Evanescence have released a new video for their single “Use My Voice,” directed by Eric Howell. The clip serves as a metaphor for recent activism movements, depicting singer Amy Lee alone in the darkness before she finds solidarity with her bandmates and a diverse group of people as the light …
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Eddie Vedder is the newest guest on Mind Wide Open, a new Instagram TV series hosted by Chris Cornell‘s daughter Lily Cornell Silver that focuses on issues of mental health. Their wide-ranging discussion touched on everything from Vedder’s methods for coping with depression to what he’s learned from Pete Townshend …
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Today, August 23rd, marks what would have been Kobe Bryant’s 42nd birthday, and to honor the late Los Angeles Lakers legend, Nike released a tribute video narrated by Kendrick Lamar. The video embraces the “Mamba Mentality” of “Just be better,” with Lamar’s spoken word the foundation of a montage of …
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Paul Redding, CEO of the independent record company Beggars Group, plans to swim the English Channel to raise £200,000 (about $263,000) for two music-related charities: the PRS Foundation in the United Kingdom and the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund in the United States. Redding plans to embark on his epic swim …
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For anyone watching the opening night of the Democratic National Convention on cable news or a major broadcast network, the event wrapped up with Michelle Obama’s powerful speech before the show cut away to commentary. But viewers watching online or on C-Span got to see the actual grand finale of …
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Pearl Jam will document a hometown concert from their 2018 tour in an upcoming pay-per-view broadcast. The band’s August 8th performance at Seattle’s Safeco Field — the first of two sold-out gigs billed as “The Home Shows” — will be available to view via Nugs.net throughout Labor Day weekend, starting …
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