LCD Soundsystem will play their first concerts in over three years — 20 of them, in fact — when the band returns to New York’s Brooklyn Steel this November to kick off a lengthy residency. James Murphy and company will open the 20-night stand at the venue on November 23rd, …
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One week after having to cancel several of his shows, including a multi-evening stint at New York’s Webster Hall, Sturgill Simpson has canceled the remainder of his tour dates for 2021. The country singer-guitarist posted on Instagram that he’d been dealing with severe vocal cord issues that leave his future …
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There are moving May-December relationships and then there is the pairing of paisans that is 95(!)-year old croon-king Tony Bennett with 35-year old pop powerhouse Lady Gaga, a superhero team-up that has produced another album of rock-solid takes on the American songbook. Their 2014 standards collection Cheek to Cheek was …
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Donald Trump has lost a legal challenge to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against former White House aide and Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman, The New York Times reports. The decision was handed down Monday, September 29th, by the American Arbitration Association in New York. Along with saying the NDA was …
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Metallica surprised festivalgoers with a performance of their hit-strewn Black Album at Louisville’s Louder Than Life event Sunday night. The band, which also played the fest Friday night, had promised two unique setlists for the weekend but did not reveal it would be reviving a run-through of its bestselling record, …
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Alessia Cara has returned with a mighty pop opera. In The Meantime, her third album is about a bad romance that has the Canadian pop-R&B singer feeling like a phantom beneath a candelabra of patchouli candles. Over the course of 18 songs, she walks us through the five stages of …
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UPDATE (9/23): Marilyn Manson is back to facing a lawsuit from the ex-girlfriend who claims the shock rocker brutally raped her at his residence in 2011 after a tortured dating relationship that left her deprived of food, sleep and physical safety. The revived complaint, filed Thursday in Los Angeles and …
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Appearing alongside Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel on Wednesday evening for their first live performance as the Fugees in 15 years, Ms. Lauryn Hill reminded the 3,000 guests in attendance at the New York City rooftop venue Pier 17 what a miracle it was for them to be standing there. …
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Welcome to Don’t Let This Flop, a brand new podcast from Rolling Stone that dives into TikTok, internet culture, and all the weird or trending stories in between. Brought to you by the Cumulus Podcast Network, hosts EJ Dickson and Brittany Spanos will explore what the vast corners of the …
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In 2015, Mickey Guyton debuted with the ballad “Better Than You Left Me,” a moving slice of post-breakup affirmation that became a minor hit. Over the next half-dozen years, her career became stalled by a series of false starts, disappointments, and industry misjudgments in country music, a genre historically walled-off …
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