Samantha Bee continues herFull Frontal Live From the Shed performance series for quarantine, this time with Dirty Projectors. The Brooklyn-based group led by David Longstreth comes out with a new EP,Flight Tower, on June 26th, and they performed the collection’s lead single, “Lose Your Love.” With Longstreth on guitar and …
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Cypress Hill will play their hits during a livestreamed concert Friday — filmed entirely with 360-degree video technology. The rap group’s Live From L.A. gig — the first time Cypress Hill has performed together since the COVID-19 lockdown began — will stream exclusively on June 19th for free through the …
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Folk Uke, the rootsy music project from Amy Nelson and Cathy Guthrie, address toxic masculinity and the threat it poses to all living things in their new song “Small One.” Under deceptively sweet guitar strums and melancholic steel pedal, Nelson and Guthrie target a man who has gotten too “big-headed” …
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Metallica will put out their S&M2 concerts — where they performed alongside the San Francisco Symphony last year — as a box set this summer. Lars Ulrich announced the release Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! when he surprised Long Island nurse Tracy Bednar during the host’s #HealthcareHero segment. She …
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The Hi, How Are You Project — the mental health nonprofit inspired by the life and legacy of Daniel Johnston — has shared a previously unreleased clip of Johnston and Jeff Tweedy performing “Walking the Cow.” The footage comes from the Chicago stop on Johnston’s 2017 farewell tour. At each …
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Joan Osborne will release her first album of all-new material in six years this September. Trouble and Strife is the soul singer’s 10th studio LP and comments on various social issues of life in 2020. In a statement, Osborne says the album is “a recognition of the important role music …
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Ani DiFranco, Zoë Boekbinder, Terence Higgins and more will be participating in a prison reform benefit livestream, produced by Live From Out There and Righteous Babe. Prison Music Project Sessions: Long Time Gone will air as an album release party for the compilation LP of the same name on June …
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Bandcamp will be donating 100 percent of its revenue on Juneteenth (June 19th) to the NAACP in solidarity with recent protests against police racism and brutality. CEO Ethan Diamond made the announcement on Monday, adding that Bandcamp would repeat the practice annually. “The recent killings of George Floyd, Tony McDade, …
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Crowded House frontman and current Fleetwood Mac member Neil Finn has enlisted the help of his bandmates Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie for a new song, “Find Your Way Back Home.” The track was released in partnership with the homeless shelter Auckland City Mission, based in Finn’s native New Zealand, …
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Dave Grohl. Peter Gabriel. T Bone Burnett. Twenty years later, the bold-face names that helped launch Joseph Arthur’s career return in a flood of memories. “The cast of characters who made that project brings back so much love in my heart about it,” Arthur says. The project was Arthur’s career-defining …
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