My Chemical Romance‘s Gerard Way is back with a Halloween-appropriate single titled “Baby, You’re a Haunted House.” This is Way’s first new piece of solo music since 2016. The fuzzy power-pop song reflects the Britpop twist in his sound from his 2014 debut solo albumHesitant Alien. On it, Way embraces …
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Philadelphia songwriter Daniel Marino, who filed a lawsuit over Usher‘s “Bad Girl,” has been awarded $44.35 million following a court battle over the track. According to the Associated Press, a jury ordered Marino’s former co-writer William Guice to pay $6.75 million in compensatory damages, along with $20.25 million in punitive …
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Neil Young announced his plan to releaseSongs for Judy, a live album drawn from his November 1976 U.S. tour. The 22-song LP includes solo acoustic performances of all-time classics like “Heart of Gold,” “After the Gold Rush” and “The Needle and the Damage Done,” along with a number of rarer …
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James Taylor grew up in New Bern, North Carolina and wrote one of his most famous songs about the area. The region is still reeling from being severely hit by Hurricane Florence last month: more than 4,000 homes in the town of New Bern alone were damaged, railroad tracks were …
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Fresh off selling all of his musical belongings for charity, Moby announced plans to publish his second memoir, Then It Fell Apart, in 2019. “It’s a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk beneath the bling and bluster of celebrity lifestyle,” the producer tweeted of …
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The Wu-Tang Clan are taking the streaming wars to Shaolin. Hulu announced on Thursday it’s ordering Wu-Tang: An American Saga straight-to-series. The 10-episode season is set in New York City during the Nineties and follows Bob Digs’ (RZA) formation of the Staten Island group. Written and created by The RZA …
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A week after Kanye West hijacked Saturday Night Live and held the cast “hostage” by delivering a pro-Trump rant during his show-ending musical performance, Pete Davidson appeared on Weekend Update to slam the rapper. “What Kanye said after we went off the air last week was one of the worst, …
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Kate Bush is reissuing her entire studio catalog –including numerous rare tracks, B-sides and cover versions –on a series of remastered vinyl and CD box sets. The campaign launches November 16th with the first two of four vinyl packages and the first of two CD sets, via Rhino. The second …
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The life of a hit rap song is a long, winding, bizarre road full of Rap Caviar bids, HBO’s Insecure soundtrack placements and viral dances. Lil Wayne’s “Uproar” is the latest hopeful song seeking to buoy its popularity with a slew of Instagram dance videos for the “Uproar Challenge.” The …
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Tenacious D crashed Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on Thursday with an awkwardly hilarious promo for their newly launched, animated YouTube series, Post-Apocalypto. Jack Black and Kyle Gass, the self-proclaimed “greatest band” on the planet, interrupted the Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue with the failing engine wheeze of their ancient motorcycle. “What is …
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