Ginger Baker, the wildly influential and innovative drummer who laid the groundwork for heavy metal and world music and played with everyone from Fela Kuti to John Lydon to Max Roach, died Sunday after a lengthy hospital stay. He was 80. “We are very sad to say that Ginger has …
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WASHINGTON — Steve Marchand’s friends were stunned when he told them about his new job in politics. “I love you, Steve, and trust your judgment,” the New Hampshire Democratic insider and in-demand campaign operative recalls them saying, “but Andrew Yang?” It was the spring of 2019, and Andrew Yang was …
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G. Love holds the Special Sauce with the release of The Juice via Philadelphonic/Thirty Tigers, a solo album with some all-star guests due January 17th. Teaming up with blues singer-guitarist Keb’ Mo’, the first single from the album, “Go Crazy,” is a call for action aimed at provoking positive change …
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Hopping off the tailgate of his Sprinter touring van, Billy Strings readies himself for a rollicking set at the inaugural Railbird festival in Lexington, Kentucky. The six-string virtuoso grabs his guitar and tunes up, running through a few signature licks. Strings sits back down and observes the other bands and …
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In this first installment of our two-part deep dive into the history and influence of King Crimson‘s “21st Century Schizoid Man,” the band’s co-founders look back on the writing of the iconic song, and contemporaries recount its initial impact onstage and on LP. To read the second part — which …
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Post Malone’s reign atop the Rolling Stone Artist 500 chart continued for a third straight week, with the rapper garnering 201.4 million song streams for the week of September 20th through 26th. Posty’s latest album, Hollywood’s Bleeding, continued to do massive numbers, moving 150,200 album units to cap off its …
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Burna Boy reckons with the legacy of British colonial rule over Nigeria — and marks the country’s independence day, which took place on October 1, 1960 — in his new video for “Another Story.” The track appeared in July on Burna Boy’s African Giantalbum. “Another Story” provides listeners with an …
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Snoop Dogg has offered up a unique cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand,” which serves as the theme song for the BBC’s hit period crime drama Peaky Blinders. In a clip for the cover, the rapper reintroduces himself as “Snoop Shelby,” making himself an honorary …
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Carole King appeared on The Tonight Show to perform her song “It’s Too Late” with the help of house band the Roots. The track comes off her 1971 album Tapestry and King played for Jimmy Fallon’s audience in honor of her upcoming appearance at the Global Citizen Festival in New …
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Sometime in 2016, Sharon Van Etten was heading to her rehearsal space when she stumbled upon her past. “I walked by an old bar that had closed and I saw these kids living in a neighborhood that I couldn’t afford anymore,” the singer-songwriter said. “I started feeling old, but then …
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