Fifty years ago today, on August 8th, 1969, the Beatles walked back and forth across a street they knew well: Abbey Road. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr lined up and crossed a few times, while a cop held up traffic, right outside the studio where they …
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Kacey Musgraves is pissed off. The Grammy-winning country singer and native Texan offered an exasperated plea to end gun violence during her performance at Lollapalooza on Sunday, a day after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, left 29 people dead. “I don’t know what the answer is but …
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UPDATE (10/2): R. Kelly was once again denied bail at a hearing Wednesday in connection to the federal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking the singer faces in New York. The judge presiding over the case also scheduled a May 2020 start date for the trial, which is expected to …
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“[We] missed on subs. That’s on us.” Spotify wants the world — including the full gamut of Wall Street — to know that it messed up. As reported Wednesday, the company’s global subscriber count grew to 108 million in the second quarter of this year, up by 8 million quarter-on-quarter,but …
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Less than a month from when it was supposed to kick off, Woodstock 50 is officially canceled once and for all. Michael Lang, a cofounder of the original three-day concert, pulled the plug after attempting to move the event to Maryland. In recent months, he and his fellow organizers had …
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Kanye West‘s choir put an uplifting, Christian spin on two Nirvana songs, “Come As You Are” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” at the rapper’s most recent Sunday Service performance. In a video, the choir stands in a circle and sings the Nevermindtracks while decked out in white. “Just confess/ he’ll …
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My Morning Jacket unveiled one of the previously unreleased tracks, “John Dyes Her Hair Red,” from the upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of their 1999 debut album, The Tennessee Fire, out August 2nd via Darla Records. “John Dyes Her Hair Red” finds MMJ exploring a sonic realm far from their characteristically …
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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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