Slash and his bandmates in Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators get the rag doll treatment in the fun new video for “Driving Rain.” The song appears on Living the Dream, which was released via Slash’s own label, Snakepit, in partnership with Roadrunner. In the clip, the band, whose puppet counterparts …
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Spotify Studios’ new podcastUnderCover lifts the curtain on why artists pick what song they cover in their recurring Spotify Singles series. The first episode begins on a melancholy note, with Death Cab for Cutie covering Frightened Rabbit‘s forlorn rocker, “My Backwards Walk,” recorded one month after its lead singer Scott …
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The estate of Chris Cornell has unveiled the previously unreleased song “When Bad Does Good,” as part ofa new, career-spanning, four-disc box set, Chris Cornell, featuring 11 previously unreleased songs. Some of the unreleased numbers, including “When Bad Does Good,” will feature on a pared down, single-disc version of the …
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Half a century ago, when Jimi Hendrix began work on what would become his the final album to come out in his lifetime, Electric Ladyland, he was finding inspiration everywhere. “Jimi was very much in the realm of experimentation,” says one of the album’s recording engineers, Eddie Kramer. Kramer is …
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There’s a new trend in rap: An embattled artist releases an album, faces considerable scorn and decides to host their own interview or radio show to explain away the controversy. It’s supposed to be eye-opening and candid, but usually comes off as simple PR maneuvering. Earlier this year, Kanye West …
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The recording session that yielded Bauhaus‘ goth classic “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” will be reissued in November to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s formation. The Bela Session, due out November 23rd digitally and on vinyl, boasts five tracks from the January 26th, 1979 recording session – which took place …
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Cardi B had an altercation with Nicki Minaj‘s security detail while trying to confront the Queen rapper Friday night at a New York Fashion Week gala. After Cardi B was escorted out of the Harper’s Bazaar event, the rapper was photographed with a large bruise over her left eye, no …
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Ty Segall will take on songs by the Grateful Dead, John Lennon, Funkadelic and Neil Young on the prolific rocker’s new covers album Fudge Sandwich. Ahead of the LP’s October 26th arrival, Segall shared the album’s fuzzed-out garage rendition of Spencer Davis Group’s blues-rock classic “I’m a Man.” Elsewhere on …
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Hours after Gladys Knight reportedly revealed that she is battling pancreatic cancer –the same disease that struck her late friend and fellow soul legend Aretha Franklin – Knight’s publicist denied that the singer has cancer. WDIV, a local television station in Detroit, Michigan, reported that Knight said she had “the …
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Hundreds of Aretha Franklin fans gathered Tuesday morning to honor the late soul icon, who died from pancreatic cancer earlier this month at age 76. A public visitation began Tuesday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Franklin’s hometown of Detroit, Michigan. The singer’s body was displayed …
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