Tegan and Sara have released “I’ll Be Back Someday,” the lead single for their forthcoming album Hey, I’m Just Like You. The record, out September 27th and coinciding with the release of their new memoir High School, is made up of songs the twins wrote when they were teenagers that they …
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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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It’s a busy year for J. Robbins. The singer-guitarist is currently on the road with post-hardcore heroes Jawbox, continuing a reunion tour that began earlier in the summer. (This writer caught two excellent shows by them in June; if you can make one of the upcoming dates, you absolutely should.) …
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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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Everything money can buy — including the vocal talents of Beyoncé and Donald Glover and the latest in digital pizazz — has been poured into Jon Favreau’s photo-realistic retake on The Lion King, the 1994 Disney animated classic. What’s missing? Let’s start with intangibles such as heart, soul and the …
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The 71st annual Emmy awards announced their nominations, with the usual mix of the familiar (Better Call Saul‘s Bob Odenkirk, Veep‘s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the behemoth that is Game of Thrones) and intriguing fresh faces/choices (Barry‘s Anthony Carrigan, our beloved Fleabag, Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy for Schitt’s Creek!). Looking at …
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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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