Tag Archives: two-column-daily

As a member of Radiohead since their founding 35 years ago, Ed O’Brien has seen more commercial success and critical acclaim than roughly 99 percent of people who have ever picked up a guitar. But when he finally gathered up the courage to start writing and recording music on his …

Lady Gaga, who helped curate Global Citizen’s One World: Together at Home special, brought together iconic vocalists Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli and John Legend to sing “The Prayer.” The song was originally released in 1999 as a duet between Dion and Bocelli. The singers were joined by famed pianist Lang …

“The choruses of ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ are doubled, Ozzy Osbourne-style,” says Brendan Brown, singer, songwriter, and sole remaining original member of Wheatus. “Those high notes have to be good or else they don’t work together, so sometimes it takes a little while.” For the past hour, Brown, 46, has been re-recording …

John Fogerty and his family are making the most of their time in self-quarantine, taking to their home studio to record a new version of the Fogerty-penned Creedence Clearwater Revival classic “Lodi.” The clip finds Fogerty playing lead guitar while his son Shane plays bass, and his other son, Tyler, …

Nick Lowe played a handful of songs from his home in London for Rolling Stone‘s “In My Room,” an IGTV series in which musicians perform while in quarantine in wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Accompanied by his son, Roy, Lowe kicked off with the somber “Trombone,” a song he dropped …

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said that because he is a “social scientist,” his opinion about an unproven drug that carries serious risks for coronavirus patients should be taken seriously. Navarro made the remark during a tense Monday morning interview on CNN. Host John Berman asked Navarro about a …

Vaughan Mason, the musician and producer whose influential disco-funk singles — most notably his 1980 roller skating anthem “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll” — have been sampled by dozens of artists ranging from Daft Punk to a Tribe Called Quest, died Thursday of natural causes at the age of 69. Mason’s …

Bill Withers got a late start. He was nearing 30 when he began writing songs on a cheap guitar between shifts at an aircraft-parts factory. “I figured out that you didn’t need to be a virtuoso to accompany yourself,” he told Rolling Stone in 2015. A demo he made caught …

Bernie Sanders was the first-ever remote guest onLate Night with Seth Meyers Monday night, livestreaming from his home in Burlington, Vermont, while quarantined due to the coronavirus pandemic. Meyers — also at home — asked Sanders how he was running his presidential campaign and acting as a senator during this …

Dan Rather was born 10 years before America entered World War II, is more familiar with long-ago singing cowboy Tex Ritter than his actor son John, and took a stab at playing bassoon as a child growing up in Texas. In other words, he’s admittedly the last person anyone would …