The 2020 Americana Honors and Awards have been postponed amid concerns over the Covid-19 pandemic. The ceremony was originally set to take place September 16th with a live event at the Ryman Auditorium and will instead be held at a later, yet-to-be-announced date. In a statement, Americana Music Association executive …
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BTS have released a teaser for Break the Silence: the Movie, their upcoming concert film that documents last year’s massive Love Yourself: Speak Yourself world tour. The film will hit theaters on September 24th. The one-minute clip features the band introducing themselves — Jin, J-Hope, Suga, Jungkook, Jimin, V and …
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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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Don’t call it a comeback. LL Cool J‘s powerhouse fourth album, Mama Said Knock You Out, came out 30 years ago this week and its rhymes and production techniques still resonate today. At the time, the record was a response to critics and fans who thought he’d sold out or …
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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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Justin Townes Earle likely died from a “probable drug overdose,” a spokesperson at the Metro Nashville Police Department confirmed to Rolling Stone on Tuesday. Police conducted a welfare check at the 38-year-old songwriter’s Nashville apartment on Sunday after one of Earle’s friends said they hadn’t heard from him since Thursday. …
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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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