The Flaming Lips‘ Wayne Coyne created a new wrapping paper design for a charity project based in the band’s native Oklahoma City. The kaleidoscopic pattern – a variation of the band’s cover art for their most recent LP, 2016’s Oczy Mlody – benefits the Wrap Up Homelessness initiative of The …
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Two months afterSteely Dan co-founder Walter Becker died unexpectedly on September 3rd, his cause of death remained a mystery. However, in a letter toSteely Dan‘s fans, Becker’s widow Delia reveals to Rolling Stone that her husband died following an “extremely aggressive form of esophageal cancer.” “For me personally, his death …
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Ozzy Osbourne announced Monday that he will embark on his “farewell world tour” starting in 2018, a trek that will take the Black Sabbath singer around the world through 2020. Even though the farewell tour will mark Osbourne’s retirement as a touring artist, the heavy metal legend plans to continuing …
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Legendary vocalist Johnny Mathis is compiling a definitive, 68-disc box set that features 62 of the singer’s albums including two never-before-heard LPs and 40 previously unreleased songs. The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection, due out December 8th on Legacy Recordings, features the entirety of Mathis’ recordings for …
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs revisited the majority of their Fever to Tell album during a show at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. The performance, which aligned with the recent release of an expanded Fever to Tell reissue, marked the band’s first concert in four years. This was …
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Morrissey‘s lyric video for “I Wish You Lonely” begins with the image of young boy sitting in a shopping cart with a sign that says “My parents are a handful.” It’s a satirical juxtaposition to the former Smiths vocalist’s new song, which looks at selfishness as a mode of self-preservation. …
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Update:Clarkson took to Twitter on Tuesday to clarify the quotes attributed to her in Attitude. “Just to clear something up. I wasn’t ever miserable because I had to be thin. I said I was miserable & as a result I became thin,” she wrote. “I’ve never contemplated suicide because of …
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A new, super-deluxe box set will chronicle the making of Metallica’s influential Master of Puppets LP, showing how the songs developed from riff fragments into the thrash epics that make up one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Metal Albums. The collection’s “Riffs, Demos and Outtakes” disc contains three riffs, two …
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Sam Smith returned to Saturday Night Live to perform a pair of tracks from the singer’s upcoming new album The Thrill of It All, “Too Good at Goodbyes” and his just-released album closer “Pray.” The Thrill of It All, the follow-up to Smith’s 2014 breakthrough debut LP In the Lonely …
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The Rolling Stones will collect 18 recordings the band performed on the BBC from 1963 to 1965 for the upcoming compilation On Air. The collection, due out December 1st, culls the Rolling Stones‘ performances from BBC shows like Saturday Club, The Joe Loss Pop Show, Blues in Rhythm, Top Gear …
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