See you next year, literally. In the last few days, the world’s three biggest label groups have all sent out internal memos alerting their U.S. employees that remote work will continue through to January 2021. In the memos, obtained by Rolling Stone, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, and Warner …
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Lou Reed‘s 1989 album New York will be given its first remastering in a massive deluxe edition by Rhino, out September 25th (pre-order here). New York: Deluxe Edition includes three CDs, a two-LP set and a DVD, encased in a hardcover book with liner notes by David Fricke and essays …
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This piece is part of our ongoing coverage of the 20th anniversary of Almost Famous. It is, in fact, all happening: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of writer-director Cameron Crowe‘s hilarious, heartwarming masterpiece Almost Famous — one of the greatest music movies ever made and certainly the best film about …
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Remember when July was going to be the month when everything would be back to normal? Tenet and Mulan would play theaters, summer movie season would be in full swing, and we could start to put this whole COVID-19 catastrophe behind us? [Cue laughter that quickly turns into sobbing] Sadly, …
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Ziggy Marley has shared a new song, “Play With Sky,” off his newly announced album More Family Time, out September 18th. “Play With Sky” is an upbeat, cheerful duet that features Ben Harper. “I’m going to outside, gonna play with the sky,” Marley sings in the opening lines. “Running wild/Play …
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Stan Jones wrote one of Western music’s signature songs, “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” But it’s another Jones composition, the restless “Cowpoke,” that Colter Wall interprets on his upcoming album, Western Swings & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs. The song, originally cut back in 1951 by Elton Britt and the …
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Motörhead’s commercial breakthrough, Ace of Spades, will be the subject of a massive reissue this fall with two previously unreleased live albums and a clutch of alternate versions of the album’s songs. The group is previewing the collection with a previously unheard, gritty live version of the ripping title track …
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Lydia Loveless has announced her new album Daughter, the singer-songwriter’s first collection of material to be released on her own label. The LP comes four years after Loveless released 2016’s Real. “I took a break because I was exhausted,” the Ohio-bred singer-songwriter says in a statement. “But it was also …
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The last of Ayanna Pressley’s hair fell out in the middle of December, on the day before the Massachusetts representative and the rest of the House voted on President Trump’s articles of impeachment. Losing her crown of Senegalese twists — the signature hairstyle that Pressley, 46, had been wearing since …
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In a perfect world, we’d be at the movies right now. And there would be one summer blockbuster in particular we’d be flocking to this weekend — a potentially cerebral, possibly confusing, probably cracked puzzle of a thriller. Film Twitter would have been twitching at the starting gate days ago, …
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