“I haven’t picked a guitar up since they canceled me in Arizona almost two months ago,” says Buddy Guy on a recent morning from his Chicago home, where he’s getting ready to put on a mask and head to the grocery store. “I try to follow the rules, man.” The …
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Nominations for the 2020 Americana Honors and Awards were announced Monday morning, with several of the previous year’s high-profile roots releases collecting nods. The annual event is set to take place September 16th at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, though in what form precisely has yet to be revealed. Frequent Americana nominee …
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After the massive success of 2018’s Tree of Forgiveness and the tour behind it, John Prine started a new album. The first song he recorded was “I Remember Everything,” a gorgeous ballad where he looks back at snapshots from his life — both onstage and with his family — while …
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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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Singer Bonnie Pointer, who co-founded the Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters in 1969 with her sister June, died Monday at 69 years old. Expanding to a quartet with the addition of Anita and Ruth Pointer, the group’s early days were notable for their campy chic attire, their vocal style a throwback to …
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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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Alana Chenevert never really liked her given name. So around 2010, she started calling herself “Dodgr,” in tribute to Oliver Twist and her hometown L.A. baseball team. “I decided I was just gonna go for it,” she says, calling from Portland, Oregon, where she’s staying with her girlfriend. The year …
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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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