The upcoming 50th anniversary of Woodstock has been somewhat complicated. There’s a high percentage that Michael Lang‘s festival might not happen (if you’re David Crosby, you’re almost certain of it). Thankfully, the original festival’s 1970 documentary will hit theaters nationwide for one night only, where it’s possible to celebrate the …
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Liv Tyler describes seeing Kiss in concert as a child, learning to speak Elvish for her role as Arwen in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and having lunch with Marlon Brando in the latest installment of “The First Time.” The actress, who is currently starring in the third season …
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Hayley Kiyoko dropped “I Wish,” her first new song since her 2018 debut LP Expectations. The song arrived with Kiyoko’s self-directed, magical video. The video opens with a girl in a plaid school uniform running up the stairs of her home. There, her friends sit in circle as the girl …
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One of the highlights of Bruce Springsteen‘s hit Broadway show was the singer talking about his love of his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey. While he spent his early years singing about wanting to leave home, “Now I live ten minutes away from where I grew up,” he said. Now, …
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Chelsea Wolfe has released her latest video for “American Darkness,” a track from her forthcoming albumBirth of Violence, out September 13th. The moody, black-and-white clip, directed by Karlos Rene Ayala, features disparate people – mostly women – dancing and expressing themselves in solitude. Wolfe says the video was inspired by …
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Philadelphia indie rocker (Sandy) Alex G unveiled a devastating new song about the death of a friend, “Hope,” which will appear on his forthcoming album House of Sugar, out September 13th via Domino. “Hope” is centered around an upbeat rush of acoustic guitar and shuffling drums, but the song gets …
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Half the joy of being an R&B fan is incessantly complaining about the state of R&B — the lack of hits, the sexlessness of its 2019, the cottage industry of lullaby drones filling downtempo streaming playlists. Then Ann Marie drops “My Body,”and my complaints about R&B quickly seem lazy. The …
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Steven Van Zandt reflects on his early days as a musician, the first time he met and performed with Bruce Springsteen and portraying his beloved character Silvio Dante on the Sopranos in the latest installment of “The First Time.” Van Zandt traces the first time he played guitar to 1963, …
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AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson’s travel series Life on the Road, which aired in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2017, is coming to America’s AXS TV in September. The show features Johnson traveling all across the globe to interview rock stars like Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, Sting, Billy Joel, …
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With the hundreds of film and television roles actor Rip Torn played throughout his career, some are so memorable and well-known (The Larry Sanders Show’s Arthur, for instance) that many others are relegated to “I forgot he was in that one” territory. Born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. in Temple, Texas, …
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