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On February 14th, 1970, the Who, in their post-Tommy prime, played a concert at the University of Leeds that engineer Bob Pridden captured on an eight-track recorder – it would form the basis for Live at Leeds, one of the most powerful live albums ever made. On the new episode …

Disclosure have returned with a disco and soul-inspired new song “Ecstasy.” “Ecstasy” features a sample of Aquarian Dream’s “Fantasy,” off the 1978 soul album of the same name. The throbbing house track is mostly an instrumental dance song with singer Gloria Jone’s throat-y belt of the titular refrain peppered throughout. …

Prince’s early-2000s output — much of it out of print — is featured in the next wave of reissues from the singer’s estate. Prince’s 2001 LP, The Rainbow Children, and 2002 studio album, One Nite Alone …, will both be reissued on vinyl for the first time, while two live …

Ozzy Osbourne has canceled the upcoming North American leg of his No More Tours 2 as he seeks treatment for health setbacks. Early last year, the singer suffered a fall that required surgery, sidelining him from touring. Earlier this year, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. …

Coldplay soundtrack a couple’s romance in the music video for “Cry Cry Cry,” a track from their latest album Everyday Life. The clip was co-directed by actress Dakota Johnson (who is also frontman Chris Martin’s partner) and Cory Bailey, with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall. Filmed at London’s Rivoli Ballroom, “Cry …

Punk pioneers the Buzzcocks unveiled two new songs, “Gotta Get Better” and “Destination Zero,” marking their first tracks since the death of frontman Pete Shelley in 2018. Since Shelley’s death, guitarist Steve Diggle has taken over lead vocal duties, and “Gotta Get Better” is actually a reworking of a solo …

“Boy-U,” a new song from Indianapolis musician Fennec, is blasting and delirious, with distant echoes of Nineties house classics (Pete Heller’s “Big Love”) or more recent triumphs in the same vein (Midland’s “Final Credits”) — a dance floor dream brought to life. The soul samples here are deployed with reckless …

Rage Against the Machine broke up at a particularly ill-timed moment in history. They did a lot of raging in the Nineties, but their whole career existed in that brief gap between the Cold War and the War on Terror. Needless to say, there was a lot of injustice in …

Meek Mill has recruited Justin Timberlake for his new song and video, “Believe.” The uplifting anthem soundtracks the story of a father and daughter whose relationship is affected by the latter’s time spent in prison. Meek references his own prison time in his verses: “In a school of failure, we …

The Format have reunited for a brief tour. The indie rock duo — consisting of Nate Ruess of fun. and Sam Means — went on hiatus in 2008. While performing a surprise acoustic performance in Phoenix on Monday, Ruess explained the genesis of the reunion to the crowd.“About a year …