Pop and R&B icons remember the career of George Michael in a brief teaser for George Michael: Freedom, a new documentary on the singer. Michael died on December 25th, 2016 at age 53. Michael worked on the documentary before his death, narrating the film and co-directing it. The brief trailer …
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Leonard Cohen‘s final book of poetry, The Flame, will be published in October 2018, the Guardian reports. Cohen finished the book just months before his death, in November 2016, at age 82. The collection will include mostly new material, according to the publisher, Canongate. Cohen’sformer manager and the trustee of …
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By the dawn of the Nineties, R.E.M. had become that rarest of musical breeds: a globally famous rock band with integrity to match. During the course of the previous decade they parlayed their success as relentlessly gigging college-radio darlings into something far bigger, selling out stadiums while simultaneously avoiding the …
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Pastoral synthesizer landscapist Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith broke out last year with Ears, an acclaimed set of Terry Riley-esque gurgles and flutters, using noise to evoke nature. On her sixth LP, The Kid, a concept album about the human life cycle, she paints an even lusher world using cosmic swoops, squelches …
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Tom Petty, the dynamic and iconoclastic frontman who led the band the Heartbreakers, died Monday. He was 66.Petty’s death was confirmed by Tony Dimitriades, longtime manager of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, on behalf of the family. “On behalf of the Tom Petty family, we are devastated to announce the …
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Just a half hour before doors open for Harry Styles‘ first show of his debut solo tour, San Francisco’s Masonic is completely empty. Band and crew members are buzzing backstage, including Styles himself, not yet wearing the snazzy Gucci suit he would be seen sporting onstage just hours later. Outside, …
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Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson reunited on the latter’s “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” for the 2016 tribute concert, The Life and Songs of Kris Kristofferson: All Star Concert Celebration. The show will be released as a concert album and film October 27th. CMT will air the full show that same …
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When Charles Bradley, the “Screaming Eagle of Soul,” died last week of cancer at the age of 68, the music world lost one of its most sincere voices and exuberant live performers. Gabriel Roth, whose label Daptone Records released all of Bradley’s music, had first seen the singer as Black …
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As a close friend and collaborator of fellow Chicagoans Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa, Kevin “Knox Fortune” Rhomberg is used to ceding the spotlight. But even he has his limits. “I remember I was at Umami Burger with Vic a year ago,” Rhomberg recalls while eating a sushi lunch …
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If you want Gene Simmons to come to your house, all you have to do is buy his new ten CD box set The Vault and he’ll bring it right to you. You can even invite over up to 25 friends. He’ll spend two hours at your place and maybe …
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