Michelle Kath Sinclair still has a vivid memory of her father, original Chicago guitarist Terry Kath, who died nearly 40 years ago when she was only about two. She and her parents were traveling in a boat near a Wisconsin lodge owned by her grandparents. “I was on my mom’s …
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Jason Derulo and a troupe of dancers prance through the jungle in the new clip for “Tip Toe.” The single is set to appear on the Derulo’s next album, 777. “Tip Toe” operates in the same musical mode as Derulo’s “Swalla” single, mixing peppy synthesizers with the propulsion of dancehall. …
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Last month, Maggie Rose released a smoldering new song called “Pull You Through,” and already she’s given it a live reworking with an in-studio performance for YouTube’s Nashville Sessions that you can watch above. Released as a “digital 45” backed with “Just Getting By,” “Pull You Through” is a soulful …
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Mary Davis Travis, the wife of singer Randy Travis, has started a petition to block the imminent public release of potentially embarrassing dashboard camera footage from the country legend’s 2012 DUI arrest in Tioga, Texas. The petition, which is now posted at Change.org, was issued by Travis’ wife along with …
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“It was a lousy weekend,” Brian Johnson says from his Florida home. And with good reason: As AC/DC‘s primal-grunt lead singer, Johnson spent 35 years singing and writing songs with guitarist and co-founder Malcolm Young, who died November 18th at age 64 of complications from dementia. During those years, the …
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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 weeks before the release of his new From A Room: Volume 2 LP, Chris Stapleton offers another taste of the record with “Tryin’ to Untangle My Mind,” a thick slice of bluesy rock and traditional country delivered in Stapleton’s trademark growling twang. Written by Stapleton with Jaron Boyer and …
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Musical-theater productions tend to gestate for long periods, butRed Roses, Green Gold, the Off-Broadway show featuring the music of the Grateful Dead that opened in October, still seems like a special case. Playwright Michael Norman Mann first had the idea for the show when he attended a Dead gig in …
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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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A 24-year-old who grew up a Britney fan and now swears allegiance to Shania, Ballerini filled her 2015 debut with smack downs of Peter Pan bros and other losers, liars and users – songs that were country by virtue of the banjos and fiddles decorating their stomping choruses. When she …
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