Betty Wright, the R&B and soul singer behind the hits “Clean Up Woman,” “Tonight Is the Night” and “Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do,” has died at the age of 66. Wright’s family confirmed to Essence that the singer died Sunday, with Billboard adding that Wright died from cancer …
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Despite social-distancing measures, Dion recruited ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons for the video for “Bam Bang Boom,” the latest song from “The Wanderer” singer’s upcoming all-star LP Blues With Friends. The video (via Ultimate Classic Rock) finds the two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees performing the bluesy cut from …
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Paul Weller released “Village” Thursday, the new single from his upcoming album On Sunset, out June 19th on Verve Forecast. “Here I am, 10 stories high/Not a single cloud in my eye,” the former Jam frontman sings in the opening lines, against sunny, laidback instrumentation. “Not a thing I’d change …
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Paul McCartney‘s handwritten lyrics to the Beatles‘ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” Prince‘s “Blue Cloud” guitar and Jim Morrison‘s journal lead the 2020 Music Icons lineup at Julien’s Auctions. McCartney’s “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” lyrics feature 20 lines of the Abbey Road track, written on “Apple Corps Limited, 3 Saville Row” stationary. The …
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Mike Love has a message for everyone hunkering down in quarantine: “This too shall pass.” And since he’s a Beach Boy and thus some mention of the sun is decreed, he adds: “The best is yet to come/So let’s get back to having fun, fun, fun in the sun.” Love …
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Dave Mustaine will host a livestream of Megadeth‘s 2017 appearance at Germany’s Wacken Open Air Festival Thursday on its website at 5 p.m. EST, with Mustaine telling stories and answering questions in a live chat as the gig plays. The group’s set list at that show – witnessed by some …
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell recorded a new COVID-19-inspired song titled “Lockdown” and shot a video for it around his Los Angeles home studio. Fans can download it here for $1.00 (or whatever amount they choose) with the proceeds benefitting Feeding America. “Since we’re all keeping away …
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John Fogerty and his children have spent the last few weeks of quarantine jamming on Creedence classics like “Lodi” and “Down on the Corner” for their fans on YouTube. Now, they’ve decided to expand on the concept with a new SiriusXM special titled The Fogerty Rockin’ Family Hour. The show …
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The nationwide shutdown of the concert industry has forced musicians to get creative. Over the past month, everyone from Neil Young to Paul Simon to Elvis Costello to Joan Baez to the Backstreet Boys has released homemade performance videos. The newest one comes from Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante, in collaboration …
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Leon Bridges and John Mayer have teamed for a new one-off single, the laidback soul track “Inside Friend.” Despite its quarantine-like song title, “Inside Friend” was recorded in 2019 during an impromptu jam session between Bridges and Mayer. “The concept for ‘Inside Friend’ came about from Mayer and I joking …
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