As demonstrations swelled across the country in reaction to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one key piece of advice for protesters spread around social media: Write the number of an attorney on your arm in case of arrest. Many attorneys boosted this info, sharing cellphone …
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Soul Asylum have shared a pair of tracks — including their cover of Dead Kennedys’ classic “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” — as free downloads to encourage fans both to register to vote and sign a petition demanding justice for George Floyd, who was killed by police in the band’s hometown …
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Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, released a passionate, timely new video for “What We Want,” the title track to his 2019 EP. Directed by Ayana Stafford-Morris and produced by Udi Aloni, the clip features Baraka onstage at Newark Symphony Hall, accompanied by a bongo drummer. He sends his …
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In these pandemic days, everyone is pining for a long-awaited reunion with their friends. But the Foxies’ jagged new single “Anti Socialite” makes a convincing case that we’re all better off alone. The first track off the Nashville electro-punk trio’s new EP Growing Up Is Dead, the song finds fuchsia-haired …
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A few years before Roy Thomas Baker gained fame as the producer for some of the greatest albums by Queen and the Cars, he was one of several engineers to work with the ever-prolific Frank Zappa. A new four-disc box set, The Mothers 1970, spotlights some of the work Baker …
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UPDATE 6/9/2020:Primavera Sound have finalized the lineup for their 2021 festival, with new additions including Kim Gordon, Khruangbin, Kurt Vile, Slowthai, Beach Bunny, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Lingua Ignota and more. Tickets purchased for the 2020 festival can still be used for 2021; full festival tickets on sale now, with …
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Bucky Baxter — an ace pedal steel guitarist who played in Bob Dylan‘s band for much of the Nineties on Dylan’s Never Ending Tour — died Monday in Sanibel Island, Florida. He was 65. Baxter’s son, singer-songwriter Rayland Baxter, confirmed his father’s death via Instagram on Tuesday. Born William Baxter …
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Metallica dusted off some deep cuts on their 2014 “By Request Tour,” which allowed fans to curate each setlist through online voting. For the band’s latest installment of their #MetallicaMondays concert series, they’re streaming the full performance from March 20th in Lima, Peru. The free stream begins at 8 p.m. …
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Coriky, the Washington, D.C., band of Ian MacKaye, his Evens bandmate Amy Farina and his Fugazi bandmate Joe Lally, have dropped a new song, “Too Many Husbands.” The track arrives alongside a new release date for the group’s self-titled debut album, now out June 12th via Dischord. “Too Many Husbands” …
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One of the highlights of Jesse Malin‘s quarantined livestream series, The Fine Art of Self-Distancing, has been his cover of Tom Petty‘s “Crawling Back to You,” a track off of Petty’s 1994 LP, Wildflowers. Malin saw Petty perform the song at the Hollywood Bowl in 2017 — at what would …
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