Soon after announcing her long-awaited third studio album Charli, Charli XCX sat down for an exclusive interview and performance for the public television series Live From the Artists Den. While XCX’s album drops on Friday September 13th, her episode will air on Friday September 27th as well as through that following weekend …
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The Hold Steady played a rousing version of their single “Denver Haircut” on Tuesday’s Late Night With Seth Meyers. The Brooklyn sextet captured a faithful version of the track, a trademark blast of crunching guitars, clattering cymbals and frontman Craig Finn’s clever lyrics about a “cesspool” town. “He shaved his …
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Taylor Swift continues to dominateRolling Stone‘s Artists 500 chart, maintaining a spot at Number One for the week of August 30th through September 5th. Swift gained considerable momentum on the Artists chart during the week of August 23rd, when her highly anticipated album Lover was released. Last week, Swift saw …
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There’s no shortage of beloved Bruce Springsteen bootlegs out there in the fan community, but one of the most cherished ones was taped at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey on September 19th, 1978. It was a smoking hot night midway through the Darkness on the Edge of Town …
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Jimmy Johnson, the guitarist for the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (a.k.a. “the Swampers”) whose foundational R&B-based playing could be heard on hundreds of records, including iconic hits by Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, Wilson Pickett and Lynyrd Skynyrd, died at the age of 76. His death was confirmed by his son …
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The timeless country-music hits of Randy Travis will be celebrated on a new tour featuring the Country Music Hall of Fame member and The Voice alum James Dupré. The Music of Randy Travis Tour will get underway October 16th in Indianapolis. At each show, Dupré will front Travis’s touring band …
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Depending on how you do the math, Joan Shelley has made around 10 LPs with various collaborators, including the trio Maiden Radio. She was a shared secret until 2015, when she released the evanescent Over and Even under her own name, but her most recent LP — a self-titled set …
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Taylor Swift sat down with Ryan Seacrest for hisOn Air show and revealed that she may not play stadiums when she embarks on a tour in support of her latest album Lover. Swift has mostly played stadiums since her Redtour in 2012. During the interview, Swift first noted that she …
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Kanye West hosted his weekly Sunday Service in Dayton, Ohio as part of Dave Chappelle‘s Gem City Shine benefit Sunday honoring the victims of the August 4th mass shooting in the city’s Oregon district. “We’ve come to love you and we’ve come to share the love of Jesus Christ with …
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Melina Duterte (a.k.a. Jay Som) makes music that often gets lumped in with that intimately delicate, richly interior kind of indie-rock called “bedroom pop.” If that’s accurate, she’s got a pretty big bedroom. Few artists these days are so good at turning their private worlds into wide-open biospheres of pleasure …
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