If the pandemic hadn’t happened, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band would be gearing up for a huge world tour right now. Still, he’s primed to be busy in 2021. “I have some projects coming up this year that I won’t tell, because it’s gonna be a secret and …
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Bad Bunny enlists former wrestler and current WWE commentator Booker T for the new video for “Booker T,” a track off the Puerto Rican reggaeton star’s recent LP El Último Tour del Mundo. The visual for the track — which features a sample of Booker T’s “Can you dig it …
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With New Year’s Eve arriving amid a global pandemic, an unprecedented number of (responsible) revelers will likely spend the last moments of 2020 social distanced and indoors. Thankfully, television networks and streamers have loaded up on big-name December 31st entertainment to help ease the transition into 2021. Dick Clark’s New …
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If the music business were allowed to write its own history, every year’s chronicle would glow with variations on the same theme — the words “transformation,” “revolution,” and “record-breaking sea change” chief among the lexicon — ad nauseam. But in the peculiar shadow of 2020, these bombastic end-of-year appraisals, for …
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K.T. Oslin, the first female songwriter to win the CMA Award for Song of the Year, for her 1987 hit “80’s Ladies,” died Monday at 78. Oslin had been battling Parkinson’s disease and was diagnosed with Covid-19 last week, according to her friend, the journalist Robert K. Oermann, who confirmed …
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Eric Clapton and Van Morrison have collaborated on the anti-lockdown song “Stand and Deliver,” the latest in a string of “Save Live Music” tracks penned by the Irish singer-songwriter. “Stand and deliver / You let them put the fear on you / Stand and deliver / But not a word …
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A review of “The Believer,” this week’s The Mandalorian, coming up just as soon as I fill out those TPS reports… Jango Fett appeared without his helmet multiple times in Attack of the Clones. On Clone Wars, Mandalorians repeatedly showed their faces to others. The Mandalorian creative team didn’t inherit …
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Just a few days after Miley Cyrus‘ delivered a shattering cover of Hole‘s “Doll Parts,” Courtney Love took to Instagram to respond to the rendition. Love acknowledged the cover in a previous post, but provided a more detailed caption on Tuesday. “As Lana Del Rey says, ‘My legacy is my …
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UPDATE (12/7):Kid Cudi will release Man on the Moon III: The Chosen, this Friday, December 11th. The record features guest appearances from Pop Smoke, Skepta, Phoebe Bridgers and Trippie Redd. (A representative for Bridgers confirms that her appearance on the album is a newly recorded song, not a sample.) Cudi …
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Pearl Jam and Lin-Manuel Miranda will host a virtual fundraiser this month ahead of the Georgia Senate runoff election. The one-night-only event — taking place December 16th at 8:30 p.m. EST on the virtual venue Looped — will see the Rock Hall-inducted band and the Pulitzer Prize winner have a …
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