Jehnny Beth dropped “Heroine,” the new single from her upcoming LP, To Love Is to Live, out June 12th. “All I want is to never fall in love again,” the Savages singer claims in the opening lines over a chaotic, throbbing beat. She refrains “All I want” in each line, …
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It was 50 years ago today that the Ohio National Guard opened fire at a protest on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, killing four students, wounding nine others and leaving one paralyzed for life. The massacre was the culmination of fiery protests all across America in response …
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Alt-J, Grouplove, and other artists from Canvasback Music/Atlantic Records/Parlophone covered Bob Dylan‘s “Shelter From the Storm” for COVID-19 relief. Alt-J’s Joe Newman and Gus Unger-Hamilton appear in the clip, joined by Briston Maroney, Jealous of the Birds, Benjamin Scheuer, and Michelle’s Sofia D’Angelo. “And if I pass this way again, …
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Musicians and artists from the diverse music scene in Louisville, Kentucky, have collaborated on a charity single, “Lift Up Louisville,” to raise money for the city’s COVID-19 response fund. Recorded remotely in the midst of quarantine, the song and its accompanying video feature dozens of local Louisville acts including Jim …
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Beyoncé‘s BeyGOOD Foundation has announced a new initiative to provide relief and assistance to essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. BeyGOOD partnered with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Start Small fund and will provide $6 million to various organizations. “In our major cities, African-Americans comprise a disproportionate number of workers in …
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Mark Lanegan composed his upcoming album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, as a companion piece to his gritty memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, which chronicles his drug use and time in Screaming Trees in the Eighties and Nineties. Wednesday, he dropped “Stockholm City Blues,” which finds him looking back regretfully on …
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GLAAD has announced Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone, a special livestream event to be broadcast Sunday, April 26th, at 8 p.m. ET on the organization’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. The event will highlight the LGBTQ community’s response to COVID-19 and feature a star-studded lineup of guests including …
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Cardi B invited Sen. Bernie Sanders to join her on Instagram Live for a discussion about the coronavirus pandemic and voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Sanders suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination last week and endorsed Biden on Monday. Cardi B and Sanders’ conversation was simultaneously …
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As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions about these unprecedented times. Here’s what Colin Meloy of the Decemberists has to say. What are you doing with your unexpected time at home? Some aspects of my life have …
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The Grateful Dead will stream a weekly concert series on their YouTube channel. Appropriately named Shakedown Stream, the series will premiere on Friday, April 10th, at 8 p.m. EST. The band will kick offwith Truckin’ Up to Buffalo, a full screening of their Fourth of July show from July 4th, …
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