Smashing Pumpkins opened their reunion tour Thursday in Glendale, Arizona, where the band performed a 31-song setlist stocked with hits, “classic lineup”-era favorites and a surprise cover of Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway to Heaven.” Nestled between “Tonight, Tonight” and “Cherub Rock” on the setlist, Smashing Pumpkins delivered a faithful rendition of …
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When Chris Lane recorded his first LP, Girl Problems, he and producer Joey Moi decided to double down on the skill that they believed could help the North Carolinian stand out in the crowd: his ability to slip easily into falsetto, a technique that rarely makes its way into the …
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Songwriter and musician Donnie Fritts returned to his native home of Alabama to record a moving and deeply personal tribute to his longtime best friend Arthur Alexander, the soul singer and songwriter of tunes covered by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, among countless others. The LP June …
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Underworld & Iggy Pop have shared their buoyant new single “Get Your Shirt,” the latest preview from their collaborative EP Teatime Dub Encounters. A sharp contrast to the atmospheric, spoken word song “I’ll See Big,” Pop and Underworld return to their bedrocks – infectious beats and proselytizing vocals – for …
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Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert descend into a world of surreal debauchery in the new video for their song, “Up.” The clip has a distinctly David Lynch-ian vibe with Young Thug and Uzi prominently spitting the woozy track in a room draped in red velvet curtains and covered with …
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Drake‘sScorpionshattered single-day streaming records on both Apple Music and Spotify, with the rapper’s new double album on pace for the most streamed week in charts history Scorpioneasily crushed Apple Music’s single-day streaming record – previously held by Drake‘s ownMore Life– with 170 million streams worldwide in its first 24 hours …
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Joe Strummer‘s work outside of the Clash will be collected in the new compilation Joe Strummer 001, featuring rare and unreleased recordings by the late rocker. The compilation – which features Strummer’s solo work in addition to songs with his 101ers and Mescaleros and the first recordings Strummer made post-Clash …
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To compile our list the 100 Greatest Songs of the Century – So Far, we reached out to a large group of artists, producers, critics and industry experts who sent us ranked lists of their favorite songs. The list was determined by ballot. Voters submitted their 25 favorite songs of …
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Years before rebranding herself as a country-pop powerhouse, Cassadee Pope earned her first fans as the leader of Hey Monday. She was a teenage punk-rocker, fronting a band of mop-topped misfits whose fans included Glee co-founder Ryan Murphy – who handpicked the band’s power ballad “Candles” for a key scene …
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Judas Priest have launched the Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation, named after the heavy metal act’s guitarist who announcedthat he had been battling the disease for a decade prior to their Firepower Tour. “It was the band that suggested we start a foundation which, although in my name, is really a …
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