The firstNigeria 70compilationwas an ear-opener for fans of Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, cultural ambassadors whose Nigerian exports blew the minds of funky post-punks and disco connoisseurs in the U.S. and U.K. in the 1980s.Nigeria 70version 1.0 laid out a banquet of tracks by those men and lesser-known peers: …
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Walking the Floor goes live this week. Recorded onsite during the annual Luck Reunion festival, the podcast finds Chris Shiflett talking with Shakey Graves in front of an audience of SXSWers and roots-music fans. The result is a quick, spirited conversation between the two songwriters, both of whom cut their …
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Lana Del Rey delivered her first concert of 2019 on Friday night as the headlining act at the Buku Music + Art Project in New Orleans, where the “Venice Bitch” singer performed “Mariners Apartment Complex” for the first time, as part of a medley with “Video Games” and “High By …
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Ann Marie is an R&B star in a world that’s currently low on them. Much of her style feels like an anomaly: R&B’s streaming elite are typically mysterious mush-mouthed singers who forgo longing for drug-fueled existential dread. Ann Marie, along with a new class of singers like Ella Mai and …
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Calexico and Iron & Wine will reunite for the new collaborative albumYears to Burn, which will be released June 14th. The full-length effort comes 14 years after the stalwart indie folk-rock acts teamed up to release the 2005 EPIn the Reins. The warm voice of singer-songwriter Sam Beam (who performs …
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Chance the Rapper should be busy. He’s a father, recently married his longtime partner in March, is prepping the release of his debut studio album in July and playing Woodstock 50 in August. Nevertheless, Chance still found time to ask the hard hitting questions on Twitter, during a day when …
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Grimes has announced her follow-up album to 2015’s Art Angels. Entitled Miss_Anthropocene, the singer took to social media on Tuesday to unveil details about the forthcoming LP. “It’s a concept album about the anthropomorphic Goddess of climate change: A psychedelic, space dwelling demon/ beauty-Queen, who relishes the end of the …
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Melissa Etheridge beckons for comfort from the loneliness of the road in her new song “Wild and Lonely.” The track will appear on her forthcoming The Medicine Show, due out on April 12th via Concord. The song’s accompanying video was filmed while Etheridge performed live during her recent U.K. tour …
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Shawn Mendes nearly swept the 2019 Juno Awards, scoring wins in five out of the six categories for which he was nominated. The Canadian musician won for single of year (for “In My Blood”), artist of the year, album of the year (for Shawn Mendes), songwriter of the year and …
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Nearly nine months after Disney fired James Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 after decade-old offensive tweets resurfaced, the director will return to the franchise. Deadline reports that, after a series of meetings with Walt Disney Pictures head Alan Horn, Disney and Marvel reinstated Gunn Friday; the studio …
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