The initial lineup for this year’s Concert for Love & Acceptance, co-hosted by country star Ty Herndon and CMT’s Cody Alan, will include a special acoustic performance by rock & roll frontman Daughtry, country newcomer Harper Grae and trailblazing musician Chely Wright, who made history in 2010 as country music’s …
Read More »Watch Beirut's Intense, Therapeutic 'When I Die' Video
The members of Beirut unite for a series of therapeutic group experiments in their intense “When I Die” video. Multimedia artist Brody Condon directed the clip inside a Berlin Futuro house, guiding the musicians through meditative scenarios. They move around the floor in dramatic poses, sprawl out on their backs …
Read More »The National, Lizzo, Courtney Barnett Tapped for Summerfest
The National, Lizzo, Courtney Barnett and The Roots are among the artists set to perform at Milwaukee’s annual Summerfest. The festival, now in its 52nd year, runs June 26 to June 30 and July 2 to July 7, and will feature over 100 artists. Brandi Carlile, Third Eye Blind, Young the …
Read More »Interpol Plot U.S. Tour With Morrissey
Interpol have announced they will be touring as special guests with Morrissey. The trek launches this fall on September 5th at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Tickets go on sale on Friday. The 14-date run travels through the Northeast, which includes a hometown area stop on September 7th at …
Read More »Billie Eilish Sampled 'The Office.' The Show's Creators Are Excited, and Confused
“Threat Level Midnight” is an underrated half-hour of The Office. The episode, which aired in February 2011, is one of the show’s highest-concept narratives: a meta-exercise in which the characters watch a fake movie they made themselves, from a script that they discovered five seasons earlier. It’s about a fictional …
Read More »Watch Killer Mike Praise Nipsey Hussle's Community Service at Memorial
Killer Mike delivered a fierce speech about ending gang violence at a memorial service for Nipsey Hussle at Atlanta’s Morris Brown College Wednesday. The short video was posted on Facebook by radio DJ Charlamagne tha God. The clip starts with Killer Mike praising the work Nipsey Hussle did in his …
Read More »Ozzy Osbourne Postpones All 2019 Gigs Due to Injury: 'I Will Be Back'
A recent injury is forcing Ozzy Osbourne to postpone the remainder of his 2019 tour dates. While recovering from pneumonia, which forced him to cancel dates in Europe, Asia and Australia, he suffered a fall in his Los Angeles home, which aggravated an injury he sustained when he was in …
Read More »Fricke's Picks: Long Ryders, Motorpsycho, Ace of Cups
Here are three of the best albums of 2019 so far. Two of them are surprising and heartening resurrections by American bands who deserved better in their first lifetimes but haven’t given up. The third is bold prog-rock violence from Norway by a band with nearly three decades of mayhem …
Read More »Hear Mac DeMarco's Mellow New Song 'All Of Our Yesterdays'
Mac DeMarco has just released a second single for his upcoming album Here Comes the Cowboy, and thankfully this one doesn’t share the same title as a Mitski song. A wistful spring tune, “All Of Our Yesterdays” is a reflection on the past with Shakespearian roots. “The phrase ‘all of …
Read More »Read the Heartfelt Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Speeches by (Some of) Radiohead
When the news came out that Radiohead were entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, many fans thought they’d pull a Sex Pistols and simply not show up to the ceremony. “I don’t care,” guitarist Jonny Greenwood told Rolling Stone in 2017. “Maybe it’s a cultural thing that I …
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