Last April, Steven Tyler took a brief respite from his solo tour to cut a track at the historic Florence Alabama Music Enterprises (FAME) Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.For a new compilation calledMuscle Shoals…Small Town, Big Sound,Tyler put his own bedraggled spin on one of the studio’s most famous exports: …
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Long before his famous gigs as a fashion model, museum guard and cartoon lion, high-school-aged Ben Stiller was the drummer for short-lived New York noise band Capital Punishment. A mix of industrial art-collage, synth-tweaked post-punk and teenage kicks, the band quietly released one record, played zero shows under their name …
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“This morning my longest friend in this world went home to be with our Father,” Smokey Robinson wrote on Twitter after Aretha Franklin‘s death. Robinson grew uparound the corner from the Franklin house in Detroit’s North End, where Franklin’s father, Rev. C.L. Franklin, hosted some of gospel music’s biggest names. …
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Indie singer-songwritersJulien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers unveiled their new supergroup, Boygenius, with three songs, “Bite the Hand,” “Me and My Dog” and “Stay Down.” The tracks will appear on the group’s self-titled debut EP, out November 9th via Matador. Baker, Dacus and Bridgers each helm one of the …
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Barack and Michelle Obama issued a moving tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, following news of the singer’s death. In the lengthy statement, they parsed how Franklin was an integral part of America’s fiber and a reflection of the American dream. “America has no royalty,” they wrote. “But …
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Lindsey Buckingham will embark on a North American tour this fall and release a new compilation, Solo Anthology – The Best of Lindsey Buckingham, October 5th via Rhino Records. Buckingham’s fall tour marks the musician’s first since he was fired from Fleetwood Mac in April. The trek launches October 7th …
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On the third and hottest day of Lollapalooza 2018 so far, temperatures touched the upper 90s, but despite the steambath setting, fans were happy to get extra sweaty as they danced along to sets from the Weeknd, Dua Lipa and Carly Rae Jepsen. Prior to Lollapalooza opening for the day, …
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The upcoming David Bowie box set Loving the Alien (1983 – 1988) has revealed its newly revamped take on “Zeroes,” a track off the full-album “2018 version” rerecording of the late icon’s 1987 LP Never Let Me Down. Prior to his January 2016 death, Bowie expressed a desire to rerecord …
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Ed Sheeran reflects on his childhood, musical development and creative challenges in a new trailer for Apple Music’s Songwriter, an upcoming documentary about the pop star, out August 28th. The documentary was filmed over a decade, as Sheeran’s filmmaker cousin Murray Cummings followedthe singer on tours and in recording studios. …
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Neil Young just wrapped up a stunning series of solo shows with a two-night stand at Boston’s Wang Theater. He played songs from his entire career, but mostly stuck to music from his earliest days in Buffalo Springfield through the late 1970s – including extreme rarities like “Broken Arrow” and …
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