Dave Matthews, Diplo and a one-off supergroup led by Bob Weir highlight the Georgia Comes Alive concert, a virtual music festival to promote voter participationin the upcoming Georgia runoff elections. Portugal. the Man, Big Freedia, Ben Folds, Blind Boys of Alabama, Warren Haynes, and Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood will also …
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At least once a year, Lera Lynn considers quitting music. She says the social media obligations alone have been enough to send her packing. But it’s when she encounters a fellow artist’s particularly stellar album, song, or even video that the singer-songwriter asks herself a recurring question. “Who am I …
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Taylor Swift has released the music video for “Willow,” the lead single from her new albumEvermore. Both the visual and the album dropped at midnight on Thursday. In her self-directed video for the song, which she cowrote with Aaron Dessner who also produced the song, Swift hearkens back to familiar …
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Matt Sweeney and Bonnie “Prince” Billy roam around a dystopian bunker in the video for “Make Worry for Me.” Shot at Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe’s architectural exhibit A Cell in the Smile, the bunker is located in an undisclosed location outside Cleveland, Ohio — 27 feet underground. Freeman and …
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Prince, Sign O’ the Times: Deluxe Edition (Warner) On this 1987 masterpiece, Prince’s second double LP in less than five years, the R&B futurist responded to the serial crises in his personal life — the end of an affair; the firing of his band, the Revolution; escalating wartime with his …
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Cardi B, Foo Fighters and Post Malone are set to headline the Osheaga festival, which is scheduled to take place July 30th through August 1st at Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau. Osheaga just revealed its 2021 headliners, though it’s unclear when the rest of the lineup will be announced. The festival has …
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Steve Perry believes that any great song should be able to withstand a campfire test. “You take any song and sit near a campfire with an acoustic guitar and sing it, the song should be able to survive,” says the former Journey frontman. “It should work just as a melody …
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The Cure’s Robert Smith delivered an atmospheric remix of the Deftones‘ “Teenager” in the latest preview from the band’s upcoming Black Stallion, an all-new remix album dedicated to 2000’s White Pony. “It’s amazing to hear Robert rework one of our songs and sneak his voice in there,” Deftones’ Chino Moreno …
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The Arctic Monkeys have released a new video for the live version of their AM highlight “Arabella,” from their upcoming album, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, out December 4th. While the audio is from the band’s June 7th, 2018 show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the live …
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Over the weekend,The New York Times reported that President-elect Joe Biden was expected to name his long-time advisor Antony Blinken as Secretary of State. But while most members of the media were diving into the policy implications of Biden’s potential appointee, a swath of music journalists and fans were quick …
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