Roger Daltrey is the latest rock legend to drag the Rolling Stones, with the Who singer likening the group to “a mediocre pub band.” In October, Paul McCartney first took a dig at the Stones when, after being asked to compare the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, he said, “They’re …
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Shakira is marking the 20th anniversary of 2001’s first English language album, Laundry Service with an expanded edition dubbed Laundry Service: Washed and Dried, which arrived on Friday. A 12-inch vinyl edition of Laundry Service will be released Dec. 17 and is available for preorder. The set includes four bonus …
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When fashion giant Dior decided to make its entire upcoming spring/summer menswear collection a collaboration with Travis Scott, co-branded with his Cactus Jack label, the company thought it was entering into an invaluable partnership with a youth-culture titan. But in the wake of the fatal tragedy at Scott’s Astroworld festival, …
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The father of the 9-year-old boy who was “trampled and catastrophically injured” at the Astroworld Festival in Houston has filed a negligence lawsuit against concert promoter Live Nation and Travis Scott. Ezra Blount was on his dad Treston Blount’s shoulders at the Friday night festival when the two became trapped …
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Slipknot have surprise-released new song “The Chapeltown Rag” at midnight on Thursday. It’s their first new song in two years and it’s slated to appear on their upcoming album. The release date and LP title have not been announced. The song’s lyrics take on internet culture head-on: “When everything is …
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Idles appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to showcase their recent tune “The Beachland Ballroom,” marking the band’s U.S. late-night TV debut. The soulful track, named for the Cleveland, Ohio, venue, will appear on the band’s forthcoming album, Crawler, out Nov. 12 via Partisan. The album is a follow-up to last …
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Bootsy Collins, Steven Van Zandt, and producer Chew Fu have teamed up to create a theme song for the Music4ClimateJustice festival, a series of events set to coincide with the United Nations’ ongoing Climate Change Conference (known as COP26). The Music4ClimateJustice festival — which was organized by the nonprofit of …
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After Drew Barrymore’s hilarious and touching Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction speech for the Go-Go’s, the band kept the excitement high at the ceremony with an exuberant, three-song set of some of their greatest hits. The entire band’s excitement about finally making it into the institution, after years …
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For her first-ever performance on Saturday Night Live, country singer Brandi Carlile launched right into her defiant heartland jam, “Broken Horses,” wearing a gleaming Elvis-inspired gold lamé suit. But for all the glam, the energy of the music was straight barroom rock and roll. Carlile wielded her burnished guitar like …
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Tom Petty and producer Rick Rubin talk about collaborating in a clip from Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers, a documentary about the recording of the classic 1994 LP. After screening for one-night-only in theaters on October 20th — Petty’s birthday — the film will head …
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