Guided By Voices have released a new song, “My (Limited) Engagement,” the first offering from what will be their second album of 2021, It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them!, out October 22nd via Rockathon Records. “My (Limited) Engagement” pairs a steady drum downbeat with crunchy guitars, …
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Angel Olsen continues turning back the clock with her take on Men Without Hats’ “Safety Dance,” off her upcoming Eighties covers LP Aisles. Similar to her rendition of Laura Branigan’s “Gloria,” “Safety Dance” showcases Olsen’s haunted, alluring vocals. Gone are the original’s throbbing synthesizers perfect for the dance floor — …
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BTS covered Puff Daddy, Faith Evans, and 112’s classic Notorious B.I.G. tribute, “I’ll Be Missing You,” during their first appearance on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge. The track famously interpolates the Police’s 1983 hit, “Every Breath You Take,” and the performance featured some very Eighties pop stylings as rich, punchy …
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Green Day covered Kiss’ arena rock classic “Rock and Roll All Nite” during the band’s headlining set at the tour-opening Hella Mega show in Arlington, Texas Saturday. Billie Joe Armstrong — who spent the pandemic playing covers — and company first performed the Dressed to Kill song at Green Day’s …
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With a newHBO documentary revisiting the infamous Woodstock ’99, a new generation is learning about one of the most calamitous festivals of all time. Woodstock ’99 was supposed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of “peace, love and happiness.” Instead, the Rome, New York festival earned the infamous distinction of “the …
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Just hours after announcing her new album In These Silent Days and releasing the single “Right on Time,” Brandi Carlile gave the live debut of the song with a soaring performance on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Carlile began the performance solo, seated at a grand …
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The Black Crowes announced their Shake Your Money Maker 30th anniversary tour in November 2019. On Tuesday night, nearly two years later, the trek finally got underway at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater. While the big news around the tour is the reunion of perpetually squabbling siblings Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson, …
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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett will reunite for two special concerts at Radio City Music Hall in New York City later this summer. One Last Time: An Evening With Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga will debut on August 3rd, which is also Bennett’s 95th birthday. A second show will take …
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Elvis Costello doesn’t speak Spanish, but on at least one occasion, he’s dreamt in it. Back in 2018, the television writer David Simon had reached out to him about transforming “This Year’s Girl,” the prickling cut from his pivotal 1978 LP This Year’s Model, into a duet for the second …
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Los Angeles-via-Canada singer-songwriter Elissa Mielke hardly shies away from alluding to her deeply religious upbringing on “Kind of Thing,” the first single from her gorgeous Finally EP. Her lyrics more oblique than autobiographical, though, taking on a character who’s “the kind of thing I used to sing about.” “Here I …
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