Justin Townes Earle has a habit of doing things on his own terms. Last year, he broke with convention in leaving Nashville for Omaha, Nebraska to cut his latest LP, the acclaimed Kids in the Street. This spring, he’s hitting the road for a fresh, 34-date tour, which he’ll be …
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Liam Gallagher had an air of casual charisma during his performance of “I’ve All I Need” on The Late Late Show on Wednesday. The song originally appeared last October as part of As You Were, the former Oasis singer’s solo debut. On The Late Late Show, Gallagher’s drummer beat out …
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Margo Price walks the line between daydream and drudgery in her new music video for “A Little Pain,” playing a waitress who adds a little rock & roll to working the night shift and sticks it to the man in the process. Directed by Mike Dempsey and Joshua Shoemaker, “A …
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David Byrne teams with producer Oneohtrix Point Never for the new song “This Is That,” the latest offering from the former Talking Heads singer’s upcoming LP,American Utopia. Over sparse beats manipulated pianos and icy synths, Byrne sings, “That’s when I got your message / That’s when I sing this song …
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Back in 1982, Randy Newman picked up his first two Oscar nominations, for an original song and score for the movie Ragtime. Twenty years – and over a dozen more noms – later, Newman eventually brought home an Academy Award, for the Monsters, Inc. tune “If I Didn’t Have You.” …
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Two weeks before the Grammys, Code Orange drummer-vocalist Jami Morgan is admiring the outfit he’ll be wearing on the red carpet: a bespoke black fur coat. He never thought he’d possess something like this, let alone sport it during such a high-stakes occasion. “After we announced the nomination, I got …
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Mavis Staples offers an alternative to statues commemorating the Confederacy in the poignant new video for “If All I Was Was Black,” the title track off her latest album with Jeff Tweedy. The Zac Manuel-directed clip marks the first video that Staples has personally appeared in in years, and finds …
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British singer-songwriter James Bay unveiled a new single, “Wild Love,” his first new song since the release of his 2015 breakout album, Chaos and the Calm. “Wild Love” finds Bay embracing a luscious and textured electronic sound that’s a far cry from the stripped-down folk rock of his debut. The …
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Stephen Malkmus released a laid-back new single “Middle America” coupled with the announcement of a massive North American tour this summer. Anyone familiar with Malkmus’ solo work or his songs in Pavement will recognize the elements in “Middle America”: Malkmus sings twisting, inscrutable passages in a light croon over smooth …
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Is Donald Trump looking for an option to go to war against North Korea? That’s the unsettling conclusion from a report last week in The New York Times – that even Trump’s own generals and national security advisers, who are not exactly doves themselves, are afraid of giving the president …
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