Pete Seeger fans and musicians will spend the weekend celebrating what would’ve been the folk legend’s 100th birthday at an array of events taking place across the United States. The official festivities start today, May 3rd (Seeger’s actual birthday) and stretch through May 5th, though other tribute concerts and events …
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Andy Cabic was exploring the stacks in a Tower Records in Japan when he had an epiphany. The musician, who fronts the folk-rock band Vetiver, was on tour with Devendra Banhart in the mid-2000s when he walked into the store and found displays highlighting Japanese artists from the Seventies and …
Read More »Nick Hornby Talks Newfound Setlist Obsession for Charity
Nick Hornby has never owned a setlist, but his latest charity endeavor, Setlists For Young Voices, may change that. The project, conceived by Hornby alongside authors Dave Eggers and Michael Chabon, has collected over 100 setlists from artists like R.E.M., Patti Smith, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie and …
Read More »Willie Nelson Details His New Album 'Ride Me Back Home'
“Let me play some of it for you,” said Willie Nelson on a recent afternoon at his Texas home. The singer was talking about his new album, Ride Me Back Home, which he announced today, just three days shy of his 86th birthday. The move proves that Nelson is as …
Read More »Broken Social Scene Are Back for Good
Earlier this spring, the ragtag group of Canadian indie-rock lifers and unapologetic idealists known as Broken Social Scene made their way from Toronto to Austin, Texas, to perform eight shows in less than one week. “We didn’t have our gear for the first few shows,” says Kevin Drew, the 17-member …
Read More »Bun B Shoots Armed Intruder During Robbery Attempt at Houston Home
Bun B shot and injured an armed intruder during an attempted robbery at the rapper’s Houston home Tuesday night. Police confirmed to Houston’s ABC 13 that early Tuesday evening, a masked man holding a gun rang the rapper’s doorbell; Bun B’s wife Queenie answered the door, thinking it was a …
Read More »See Tame Impala, A$AP Rocky Perform 'Sundress' At Coachella
During their weekend two Coachella headlining set, Tame Impala brought out A$AP Rocky to perform two songs. The Australian psych-rock group backed the rapper while he ran through the verses of “Sundress,” a song that samples the group’s 2011 track “Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind?” https://thisforall.net/Shaedreams/status/1119863586254249984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1119863586254249984&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpitchfork.com%2Fnews%2Fcoachella-2019-watch-tame-impala-bring-out-asap-rocky%2F Together they …
Read More »See Ingrid Andress' Self-Assured 'Lady Like' on 'Seth Meyers'
Singer-songwriter Ingrid Andress made her television debut on Monday, performing her current release “Lady Like” on Late Night With Seth Meyers. The Colorado native released the song — her first under a recording agreement with Warner Music Nashville — in February. Andress, who was a co-writer on Charli XCX‘s 2017 hit …
Read More »Ben Folds, Cake Plot Joint U.S. Summer Tour
Ben Folds and Cake will unite this summer for a co-headlining U.S. tour. The 11-date trek, which follows a joint run of 2018 dates, kicks off September 5th in Bonner, Montana and wraps September 19th in Grand Prairie, Texas. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 19th. Additional details are available …
Read More »John Lydon Sounds Off on New NYC Punk Art Exhibit
It’s been a little over a month since John Lydon (aka the Sex Pistols‘ Johnny Rotten) lit into Marky Ramone, Henry Rollins and a murderers’ row of underground-music legends at an L.A. panel about punk music. “Hello, Johnny Rotten never did the walk?” he bellowed when Ramone suggested he didn’t …
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