Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the last Fifties rock & roll architects alive and performing, has been hospitalized, the singer’s representatives announced via his Facebook page. Here is the full message: “Last night, Jerry Lee Lewis suffered a minor stroke. He is with his family, recuperating in Memphis and the …
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Just a little under 20 years ago, Mavis Staples thought her career was over. Pops Staples, her father and the leader of the Staples Singers, had just died and she didn’t see how she could possibly carry on without him. “I’d just sit down and wouldn’t get up,” Mavis Staples …
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Patty Griffin unveils another exquisite sneak preview of her forthcoming self-titled album, due early next month. “Hourglass” moves along a slippery groove, punctuated by gypsy jazz guitar, New Orleans horns and Griffin’s dusky and soulful Emmylou Harris-meets-Billie Holiday vocal delivery. Observing the inevitably cyclical nature of humans, Griffin says the …
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Yungblud attempts to save Halsey from a fatal car crash while reliving the events every day in the video for “11 Minutes.” The Groundhog Day (or Russian Doll) style visual shows the British rock musician going through the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and eventually acceptance. While at …
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WhileReal Housewives of Atlantastar and Grammy winner Kandi Burruss was in theCelebrity Big Brother house, two singles from her catalog as a songwriter were back in the news. Both Weezer and Ariana Grande recently produced fresh spins on a pair of classics that have Burruss’ name in the credits: the …
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Bethel Woods has announced that Ringo Starr and Santana will lead the original Woodstock site’s 50th anniversary celebration to the legendary 1969 festival. New York’s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts’ half-centennial event – a separate festival from the one being organized by original Woodstock founder Michael Lang in Watkins …
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British billionaire and Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson announced a benefit show last week to raise funds for food and medicine for the citizens of Venezuela. Modeled after Bob Geldof’s Eighties ‘Live Aid’ telethons for Ethiopia, the concert is set to take place this Friday in the Colombian border town …
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Yoko Ono and John Lennon‘s Wedding Album will be reissued this spring. Originally released in 1969, it was the couple’s third collaborative LP. Announced on Monday, which marks Ono’s 86th birthday, Unfinished Music No. 3: Wedding Album will be released via Secretly Canadian in partnership with Chimera Music on March …
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In the mid-2000s, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Scott Conner became something of an anti-hero in the heavy-music underground. Recording entirely on his own under the pseudonym Malefic and the “band” name of Xasthur, the California artist created dense, plodding black-metal tracks that, even in a subgenre known for its sonic bleakness …
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The South African DJ and house producer Black Coffee released a yearning video for the single “Wish You Were Here” on Friday. The video is full of isolated people looking into empty space; during the clip’s dramatic peak, one character kneels on the pavement and shouts at the sky, nearly …
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