If Bob Dylan had gotten his way, the Band’s Robbie Robertson would have played on his just-released album Rough and Rowdy Ways, the guitarist says – which would’ve been Robertson’s first performance on a Dylan studio LP since he and the rest of the Band played on 1974’s Planet Waves. …
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Members of the original cast of Hamilton, along with the Roots, staged a virtual reunion to perform the musical’s “Helpless” as part of Global Citizen’s “Global Goal: Unite for Our Future” live stream event Saturday. The performance featured actress Phillipa Soo reprising her Tony-nominated role of Eliza Hamilton, with the …
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In a move that further reflects TikTok‘s growing presence in music marketing and song discovery, the popular video app has landed a deal with the Prince estate to get all of the late artist’s catalog onto TikTok. Prince’s music is the latest and one of the most high-profile legacy holdouts …
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MTV is taking a rare break from Ridiculousness and Teen Mom OG marathons on Friday for something they are calling “Flashback Friday: Made in New York.” It’s a 24-hour block of classic Nineties programming like The Real World: New York, Yo! MTV Raps, The State, Diary: Pink, and the Pearl …
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In the wake of conversations around race and equality in the music industry, TikTok and nonprofit youth program After-School All-Stars are partnering with music publisher Sony/ATV and Syracuse University’s Bandier Program in Recording and Entertainment Industries to create a “songwriter academy” this summer for underrepresented communities. The students selected for …
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With concerts indefinitely shut down thanks to COVID-19, musicians who’ve spent much of their lives on tour are stuck at home this summer, and pondering an uncertain future.“I just don’t even know what is realistic at this moment,”says Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson. Buddy Guy I haven’t picked up the guitar …
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UPDATE 6/24/2020: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast ofHamilton have been added to the lineup for Global Citizen’s virtual concert. The Broadway cast will perform remotely with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots. ~~~ Global Citizen and the European Commission are airing a special titledGlobal Goal: Unite for Our Future — The …
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My Morning Jacket, Brittany Howard, Emily King and more appear on Silence Is Not an Option, an ATO Records compilation out now. The tracklist includes My Morning Jacket’s “I’m Amazed,” Drive-By Truckers’ “What It Means,” “Goat Head” by Brittany Howard, Black Pumas‘ “Colors” and more. You can hear Emily King’s …
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John Ellison — frontman for the Soul Brothers Six and writer of their biggest hit “Some Kind of Wonderful” — has shared a fiery new song, “Wake-Up Call (Black Like Me),” inspired by the recent protests in response to the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Ellison delivered …
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Legendary rock critic Lester Bangs and his protégé Cameron Crowe appear in the new trailer for Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine, in select theaters on August 7th. Directed by Scott Crawford, the trailer features vintage videos and various Creem covers throughout the Seventies and Eighties.Several musicians appear in …
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