Sir George Martin is best known, of course, for producing the Beatles, as well as Seventies albums by America and Jeff Beck. But early in his career, did he help popularize electronic music? Two unearthed recordings, to be reissued in May, hint at another, forgotten side of Martin’s story. In …
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King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and singer/actress Toyah Willcox dropped a cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” and showed their support for Spears in her ongoing conservatorship fight. The cover was part of the couple’s quarantine series, “Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch,” and found them ripping through Spears’ 2003 hit in what …
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DJ Snake and Selena Gomez have teamed up for “Selfish Love,” their second collaboration after “Taki Taki.” The bilingual single will be included on Gomez’s upcomingRevelación EP, set to arrive on March 12th. “Selfish Love” is accompanied by a video directed by award-winning filmmaker Rodrigo Saavedra, which depicts Gomez operating …
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Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee recalls hearing Fiona Apple for the first time in a dance class.“We did a dance to the song ‘Paper Bag,’ and I remember immediately being like, ‘I’ve never heard anything like this,’ and immediately just clocked it,” she told Rolling Stone for ourIcons & Influences video …
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The Who will rerelease their classic 1967 album The Who Sell Out as a giant reissue complete with studio outtakes, unreleased tracks, early takes, and Pete Townshend’s original demos for the LP. The Super Deluxe edition of The Who Sell Out, due out April 23rd via UMe/Polydor, boasts 112 songs …
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Buffalo Springfield‘s 1966 anti-war anthem “For What It’s Worth” is timeless — so much so that Billy Porter revived it to take on the tumultuous year that was 2020. Maybe the most creative revamp, though, came in 1978 when The Muppet Show tweaked the track into a tender warning against …
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Gojira sing about taming and facing their fears on “Born for One Thing,” the heavy and heady lead single form their upcoming album, Fortitude, which will come out on April 30th. The video for the track takes place in a natural history museum where a man takes a pill and …
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D’Angelo will face off against unnamed “friends” in an upcoming Verzuz episode. The battle, which takes place live at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater, will stream via Instagram Live on February 27th. Launched last year by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, the popular series features veteran songwriters, producers and artists who musically …
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FKA Twigs and Getty Images are working to empower black storytellers by making more images from the platform’s archives available to creatives. Getty will also be pursuing and announcing various projects that will amplify and support black creatives in the coming months. Getty Images’ Hulton Archive is the world’s …
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Back in 2013 — fresh from playing bass on what would turn out to be one of Van Halen‘s final tours — Wolfgang Van Halen turned his attention to his own music, demoing a song he called “Mammoth,” a nod to one of the early names of his father’s band. …
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