Phish frontman Trey Anastasio fittingly covered Bon Iver‘s “Towers” during a concert in Justin Vernon’s hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Monday. JamBase shared a fan-shot video of the performance in which Anastasio turns the lush tune into acoustic ballad. “Oh, the sermons are the first to rest/ Smoke on Sundays …
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Kesha has announced a new studio album,High Road, in a fiery trailer released Monday. This will be her first album since 2017’s Rainbow. Intercut with footage that’s made to look like a vintage travelogue, Kesha explains in a sit-down interview what we should expect from her next album. “I’ve seen …
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A recent episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast tells the story of the Cars‘ Ric Ocasek, who went from struggling folk musician to MTV hit-maker to go-to alt-rock producer. David Browne joins host Brian Hiatt to share details from his reporting on Ocasek, who died in September at …
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“Where is Elton?” yelled a guy in the back benches halfway through the Rocketman: Live in Concert experience at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles Thursday night. The one-night-only event featured the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra scoring the Elton John biopic live to picture, as the film was projected before a …
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Beck has detailed his upcoming album Hyperspace and shared a pair of new tracks from the LP, single “Uneventful Days” and album opener “Hyperlife.” Hyperspace, Beck’s followup to 2017’s Colors, arrives November 22nd. Like its predecessor, “Saw Lightning,” “Uneventful Days” was co-written and co-produced by Pharrell Williams. While the previous …
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Maybe you thought that as time went on, the Democratic Party debates would become less chaotic, and easier to follow. Fooled you! Chapter four in the series of Democratic Party debates begins tonight in Westerville, Ohio, on the Otterbein University campus, and instead of ten candidates onstage, which has been …
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Halloween is a time for many things: tricks, treats, watching Hocus Pocuson FreeForm because you couldn’t get your shit together in time to make yourGame of Thronescouples’ costume. It’s also the season for outlandish urban legends, from fears about crushed Tylenol being mixed into Pixie Sticks to that old chestnut …
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Saturday Night Live spoofed Joker with an Oscar the Grouch origin story that puts Sesame Street in the cold heart of Gotham City. In the video short, SNL guest host David Harbour plays a garbage man named Oscar who becomes disillusioned with the condition of Sesame Street, where Big Bird …
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Hayley Kiyoko has returned with the Halloween-appropriate “Demons.” The track will appear on an upcoming collection of music titled I’m Too Sensitive for This Shit. “Demons” launches with a heavy, stomping synth riff that maintains throughout the song. On the track, Kiyoko fights the demons in her head that are …
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“Hey, cowboy!” Even in a city where everyone’s seen it all, the sight of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is still enough to turn a few heads, including one of a guy plopped down outside a bodega. On a recent summer morning, Elliott has returned to his former stomping, singing, and drinking …
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