Brandi Carlile has posted an emotive cover of Tears For Fears’ “Mad World” that was captured at her Washington State home. The song was included as part of Carlile’s full-album livestream re-imagining of 2009’s Give Up the Ghoston September 13th. Seated at a keyboard and flanked by a series of …
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After a six-month delay as organizers figured out how (and where) to stage an awards show during a global pandemic, the 55th annual Academy of Country Music Awards finally announce their winners on Wednesday night. Dubbed “A Night of Heart and Hits Live From Nashville,” the ACMs, hosted by Keith …
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Rhiannon Giddens and Amanda Palmer team up for a cover of “It’s a Fire,” a track from the British trip-hop band Portishead‘s 1994 album Dummy. Giddens and Palmer recorded the song remotely from their respective homes in Ireland and New York during quarantine. Trading verses, the singers offer a reverent …
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Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, DJ Khaled and more have joined a new non-partisan voter registration campaign, Just Vote, organized by Global Citizen and HeadCount. The aim of the campaign is to get young people to check their voter registration status and register 50,000 young voters ahead of the 2020 elections. …
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Around 9 p.m. on Sunday night, in the middle of MTV’s Music Video Awards, the Biden-Harris campaign debuted a new advertisement. The spot was accompanied by a jaunty, percussive soundtrack, all whistles, parade drumming, and sloganeering: “If you want to see some change, say the action starts with me.” That’s …
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Two 2006 films paying tribute to American folk pioneer Harry Smith will be rereleased on Apple TV on September 8th. The first, The Old, Weird America, is a 2006 documentary that traces the life and career of Harry Smith, the eccentric folklorist, filmmaker, artist and record collector best known for 1952’s …
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Katy Perry has dropped an animated music video for “Resilient,” the latest visual from her album Smile, released last Friday. The cute clip, directed by Aya Tanimura, follows the life cycle of a tree growing on a city block — from its start as a single seed in a bird’s …
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Maren Morris performed her crossover hit single “The Bones” on The Late Late Show With James Corden on Thursday night, cutting a striking image in a gold dress and bare feet. Morris belted the song about perseverance and resilience outdoors, pacing a candlelit rug while her band played around her. …
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I don’t actually remember the first time I met Riley Gale, late vocalist of the exceedingly heavy thrash-metal band Power Trip, but I remember the second. As with so many other stories about meeting Riley, it was outside of a punk show, at a Toronto festival called Not Dead Yet. …
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Ahead of the release of Toots and the Maytals’ new album on Friday, Toots Hibbert has dropped the buoyant single “Just Brutal.” “We need more love in our hearts/Remember what the preacher said,” Hibbert sings over a chaotic frenzy of a horn section and background singers before ripping into the …
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