Just how awful was Woodstock ’99, which hits its 20th anniversary this week? Consider that a bunch of dudes in the crowd audibly heckled Sheryl Crow (“show your tits,” they yelled, hideously enough) mid-set, and that moment doesn’t even make it into most accounts of the festival’s horrors. “They wouldn’t …
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The Hold Steady have released a new song, “You Did Good Kid,” the latest preview of their forthcoming album, Thrashing Thru the Passion, out August 16th. The album is the first to feature the band’s current six-piece lineup, which includes keyboardist Franz Nicolay, who rejoined the band in 2016 after …
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Lenny Kravitz has released a sun-soaked video for “5 More Days ‘Til Summer,” a track from his September 2018 album Raise Vibration. Although the single arrives in mid-July, the track has all the giddiness of those final weeks of perfect spring weather leading up to June, with the full potential of …
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The Replacements will release a newly and properly mixed version of their 1989 Don’t Tell a Soul alongside a slew of rarities and previously unheard tracks on an upcoming box set, Dead Man’s Pop, out September 27th via Rhino. Don’t Tell a Soul became the Replacement’s best-selling record, but upon …
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Long-suffering Kinks fans were given yet another jolt of hope earlier this week Dave Davies told Rolling Stone that the he’s been recording music with his brother Ray along with original Kinks drummer Mick Avory. “The songs are really just in demo form now,” says Dave. “But good demos. Ray …
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Fitz and the Tantrums have unveiled their new video for “I Just Wanna Shine,” the latest single off the band’s upcoming LP All the Feels. The video features a young skateboarding breakdancer practicing her craft at various Los Angeles locales, culminating on the rooftop of her apartment building with the …
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Sammy Hagar and the Doors’ Robby Krieger perform “Roadhouse Blues” in a preview of an upcoming episode of Hagar’s music, food and travel series Rock and Roll Road Trip, airing July 14th at 8 p.m. ET on AXS TV. The episode is set in Los Angeles and centered around the …
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied Cardi B‘s application to trademark the rapper’s quasi-catchphrase “Okurrr.” Cardi B’s lawyer filed the application in March, with the rapper hoping to use the phrase exclusively – either with three R’s, okurrr, or two, okurr – on a line of merchandise. The word …
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Duran Duran will perform a special show commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, July 16th at the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The band will perform against a one-of-a-kind backdrop featuring the Saturn 1B launch vehicle and other rockets and …
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Miley Cyrus – as her Black Mirror alter ego Ashley O – performed both her Nine Inch Nails remake “On a Roll” and a cover of the actual “Head Like a Hole” during the singer’s Sunday set at Glastonbury. The performance marked the first time Cyrus has played both the …
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