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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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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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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Jon Pardi depicts a conflict of domesticity and restlessness in the new video for “Ain’t Always the Cowboy,” which was released on Tuesday. The song is the second single from the California native’s 2019 album Heartache Medication. Penned by Brandon Kinney and Josh Thompson, “Ain’t Always the Cowboy” gives more …
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Bob Dylan has unveiled the track list for his upcoming album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. Arriving on June 19th, the LP is his first album of original songs since 2012’s Tempest, which he followed with three collections of standards: Shadows in the Night, Fallen Angels and Triplicate. The track list, which was unveiled in …
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