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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Twenty One Pilots try to tap into a little bit of hope amid the coronavirus pandemic on their new song, “Level of Concern.” The track marks the alt-rock duo’s first new music since their 2018 LP Trench; it was written in recent weeks while frontman Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun …
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In the 24 hours since John Prine died of complications from COVID-19 on Tuesday, countless musicians and artists have paid tribute to the Nashville legend. Here, singer-songwriter Todd Snider remembers his hero, mentor, and friend. The first time I heard about John Prine, I was about 19 and I was …
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In Stevie Nicks‘ latest Instagram dispatch from home, the rock legend befriends a dove and reveals the inspiration behind the opening lyrics to her hit song “Edge of Seventeen.” Nicks posted a video of a dove sitting atop a branch in front of a bright blue sky, cooing as it …
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Neil Young has dug into his archives and unearthed video of a complete concert he played with Crazy Horse at Buffalo’s War Memorial on February 16th, 1991 on the Smell the Horse tour. He posted it for free on his Neil Young Archives website. (Update: Young has since taken down …
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Green Day has released a new remix EP, Otis Big Guitar Mix, which features updated versions of “Lazy Bones,” “Wild One” and “Oh Love.” The EP, which focuses on big guitar sounds (hence the title), remixes three songs from the band’s 2012 trio of albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and¡Tré!. The EP …
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Is it summer yet? While young people worldwide stay cooped up in quarantine, CNCO and Natti Natasha live out their dreams of playing in the sunshine in the new video for “Honey Boo.”
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