Sunday, June 21st, marks what would have been Queen + Adam Lambert’s final gig of a 14-date residency at London’s O2 Arena. Although the string of concerts were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the band will still celebrate the occasion with a “Tour Watch Party.” The stream will begin …
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Duffy has dropped her new song, “River in the Sky,” the second track she has released in 2020 following her radio-only song, “Something Beautiful.” On the tender, piano-driven song, the Welsh artist sings about being “alone/afraid of the dark” and the ways in which she copes with it, envisioning someone …
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UPDATE: Goldenvoice, the organizers behind Coachella and Stagecoach, announced tentative new dates for the annual festival. Coachella’s two weekends will take place April 9 – 11 and 16-18, while Stagecoach will take place April 23 -25. “All 2020 passes will be honored in 2021,” organizers wrote. “Current pass holders will …
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As protests continued around the U.S. following the death of George Floyd, Peter Gabriel wrote Monday in a moving Twitter statement that he was “horrified” by the “racist murder.” “This type of brutality needs to be confronted directly, with justice clearly seen to be done whenever & wherever it occurs,” …
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There is perhaps no photographer who captured the Eighties and Nineties hip-hop scenes in New York better than Ricky Powell. Known best for his working relationship with the Beastie Boys, Powell was a prolific shooter who captured iconic images of Run-DMC, Madonna, Eric B and Rakim, Laurence Fishburne, Keith Haring, …
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With the launch of HBO Max, Elmo has received his very own Sesame Street spinoff on the new streaming platform. It’s called The Not-Too-Late Show, a sendup of late-night talk shows, and one of Elmo’s first guests this week was rapper and star Lil Nas X. “Welcome to the show!” Elmo said …
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Eric Clapton and B.B. King‘s 2000 collaborative album Riding With the King will be reissued for its 20th anniversary with two previously unreleased tracks on June 26th via Reprise Records. One of those rarities was shared along with the album announcement, a rendition of the blues standard, “Rollin’ and Tumblin’.” …
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Savages singer Jehnny Beth released a self-directed video for “Heroine,” her latest single off of To Love Is to Live, out June 12th. The clip opens with Beth walking through the Paris Métro, her face blanketed in a mask, amid the pandemic. She rapidly pivots toward the camera for the …
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Ella O’Connor Williams, who performs under the moniker Squirrel Flower, breezed through a handful of songs for the latest installment of “In My Room,” a series in which artists perform from home while in quarantine. From her house in Arlington, Massachusetts — where Williams recently cooked risotto for Rolling Stone …
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Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber have come together for a good cause, releasing the single “Stuck With U” benefiting First Responders Children’s Foundation (get the song here). It will fund grants and scholarships for children of healthcare workers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, police officers and firefighters serving at the frontlines …
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