Few voices in music are as soulful and honeyed as Ken Boothe, the reggae legend whose God-level fame in his home country is showcased in the new documentaryInna de Yard. The film, which premiered earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, highlights both the past and present of reggae …
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Cage the Elephant and Beck have dropped the retro music video for their collaborative single “Night Running,” a reggae-tinged track off the band’s new LP Social Cues. The visual, directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford, stars Cage the Elephant’s Matt Schultz and Beck and uses antiquated video technology and decades-old special …
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As a young man growing up in Maywood, Illinois, a blue-collar suburb of Chicago, future songwriting icon John Prine and his family would spend summers in Paradise, Kentucky, the Muhlenberg County birthplace of his father, Bill Prine. The younger Prine would later immortalize the coal-mining town in his song “Paradise” …
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Robert Earl Keen is never short on having a good story to tell, but for his latest project the gregarious Texas Country singer-songwriter is letting others do the talking. Well, mostly. On Americana Podcast: The 51st State, Keen gets behind the mic to host a new interview series with some …
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Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus closed out the 2019 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, with the live debut of “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X’s viral sensation that features the “Achy Breaky Heart” country singer on its chart-topping remix. The pair joined Diplo at the Palomino Stage, with …
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Aldous Harding uses oddness as both lure and armor. You can see it in her performances, which suggest a neurodiverse lexicon of emotions in her facial tics and physicality. And you can hear it in the language of Designer, her quizzically beautiful third LP, where she pivots artfully from folk …
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Paul McCartney will reissue his 2018 album Egypt Station with an additional disc filled with bonus songs and live tracks. Egypt Station: Explorer’s Edition, due out May 17th and available to preorder now, will feature the original LP alongside another album dubbed Egypt Station II, which compiles all of the …
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Aubrie Sellers has returned with a dreamy cover of Dwight Yoakam‘s 1993 hit “A Thousand Miles From Nowhere,” posted on Tuesday with an accompanying video. It’s the singer-songwriter’s first new music since 2016’s New City Blues. Emphasizing the woozy melancholy of Yoakam’s Number Two-charting hit, Sellers dials up the reverb …
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A setlist is one of the rarest items you can take home from a concert, usually going to VIPs or the lucky fan who gets a guitar tech’s attention. But starting today, getting one is easier – you can bid on more than 100 of them as part of Setlists …
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Norwegian DJ/producer Kygo has teamed up with Rita Ora for a new song, “Carry On,” to be featured on the soundtrack for the upcoming film Pokémon: Detective Pikachu. “Carry On” was released with a video, directed by Colin Tilley and JSV, starring Ora and set in the world of the …
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