Anders Osborne mixes Big Easy groove with California cool on Buddha and the Blues, his newest collection of greasy roots-rock. Recorded an hour outside of Los Angeles with SoCal icons like guitarist Waddy Watchel and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench, the album hits a high-water mark with “Running,” …
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Weezer linked up with Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith of Tears for Fears for a performance of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday. Smith and Rivers Cuomo shared vocal duties on the song, trading verses while Weezer guitarist Brian Bell breezed through the song’s famous …
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Jay-Z will serve as the (re)opening night performer when New York’s Webster Hall returns later this month following a lengthy renovation. The rapper, who has never performed at the East Village venue, will take the stage April 26th with a gig dubbed “The B-Sides 2”; Jay-Z’s initial “B-Sides” shows – …
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Blake Shelton heads back to Oklahoma in the cinematic new video for “God’s Country.” The singer and Voice coach released the track March 29th and performed it live on the 54th ACM Awards on April 7th. Directed by Sophie Muller (Beyoncé, Rihanna, Gwen Stefani), the clip was filmed in and …
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For the ninth consecutive year, YouTube will stream the Coachella Festival’s two weekends so fans outside Indio, California can watch the spectacle on their screens. The streams of over eighty acts at the festival will be available on YouTube’s Coachella channel and the YouTube Music app. This year, YouTube Music …
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Give it up for the Chemical Brothers. Genres and trends come and go, festival gods rise and fall. Yet Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons stay eternally true to their block rocking vision. The duo has now outlasted two stupidly-named marketing gimmicks designed to sell dance music to normals: electronica (which …
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Brooks & Dunn and Midland brought their collaboration for B&D’s new album Reboot to life when they teamed up to perform “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night. Midland singer Mark Wystrach set the scene with the song’s famous opening lyric —“Out in the …
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Last October, Beastie Boys’ Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz released the Beastie Boys Book, a 592-page tome detailing the history of the New York hip-hop group and its cultural influence. It was also, in large part, a tribute to the group’s third member Adam “MCA” Yauch, who …
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The 54th ACM Awards on Sunday night felt like a tug of war between country’s old-school traditions and its progressive future, resulting in some truly engaging performances. Others, however, struggled to find their footing, while some moments left us with head-scratching questions — like why were two of country and …
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The Raconteurs performed their first concert together in eight years and debuted tracks off their upcoming third album Help Us Stranger at the band’s gig Saturday at Third Man Records’ 10th anniversary celebration in Nashville. In addition to performing the previously released “Now That You’re Gone” and “Sunday Driver,” Jack …
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