Nils Lofgren has created a video for his new single “Pretty Soon” that shows the E Street Band guitarist playing the song on the grounds of the Gila River Indian Reservation near his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. The song is about a young man that joins the military to impress …
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It’s a four-way tie for most nominations at the 2019 CMT Music Awards, as Miranda Lambert, Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Zac Brown Band each garnered three nods. The nominations were announced by “Closer to You” singer Carly Pearce this morning on NBC’s Today. Morris’ uplifting 2019 single “Girl” earned …
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For most of his career, Gil Scott-Heron called New York home, but his Jamaican roots — a crucial if underexamined part of his life — were never far from the jazz-soul genius. Scott-Heron’s father, Giles, left his son when he was an infant to become a professional soccer player and …
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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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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