Twenty-six years after Nirvana played an acoustic concert to roughly 20 fans at an Edinburgh pub, audio from that unique December 1st, 1991 performance has surfaced online for the first time. Nirvana – the gig’s “very special guests” who used the not-so-subtle pseudonym “Teen Spirit” – played a handful of …
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Jim Nabors, who rose to fame playing bumbling, wide-eyed gas-station-attendant-turned-Marine Corps recruit Gomer Pyle on two of the most popular TV programs of the 1960s, died Thursday at his home in Hawaii after being in ill health for several years. Nabors’ longtime partner, Stan Cadwallader, whom he married in 2013, …
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OK Go transform a wall of printers into a kaleidoscopic backdrop in the music video extraordinaires’ new visual for “Obsession.” The innovative video, a collaboration between the band and paper company Double A, utilizes stop-motion imagery, precise choreography and 567 printers to create the “world’s first paper mapping” project. “New, …
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Singer-songwriter Ned LeDoux has a surefire trick for trying to get his baby daughter to calm down when she’s crying: just cue up some cowboy music and wait for tales of the range to work their magic. “Anytime she’s throwing a fit, I’ll just turn on some Don Edwards,” he …
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Green Day pay homage to John Carpenter‘s sci-fi classic They Live in the band’s new video for “Back in the USA,” one of two new tracks on theirjust-released greatest hits collection God’s Favorite Band. The video opens with Billie Joe Armstrong living a sterilized, black-and-white Fifties sitcom existence until a …
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Members of California rock band Eagles of Death Metal played a brief, surprise set in Paris Monday honoring the victims and survivors of the Bataclan terrorist attack two years ago. Singer Jesse Hughes and guitarist Dave Catching performed a solemn cover of Duran Duran’s “Save a Prayer” and their 2015 …
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Kelly Clarkson has unveiled a cover of Prince’s “Kiss” and a new version of her song “Love So Soft.” The tunes were recorded at Spotify Studios in New York as Spotify singles. The pair of songs build on Clarkson’s soulful bent found on her recent release and pair well together, …
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Until David Yaffe’s Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, Mitchell had never before cooperated with previous biographers. And based on the interviews she gave Yaffe for his book, the legendary singer-songwriter seems eager to finally spew. One-time lover James Taylor was “broody and moody … incapable of a relationship.” …
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Chance the Rapper brought Francis and the Lights and Lin-Manuel Miranda onstage in Chicago to perform the Hamilton song “Dear Theodosia” on Wednesday. Chance the Rapper was headlining the closing ceremony of the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit. “Dear Theodosia” is a hopeful song about the promise of the next generation …
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Tim Heidecker imagines the ultimate reckoning ofPresident Donald Trumpon a sanguine new song, “Sentencing Day.” The track will appear on the comedian’s new record, Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker’s Trump Songs, which arrives digitally November 8th – the one-year anniversary of the 2016 election – via Jagjaguwar. “Sentencing Day” …
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