Taylor Swift took the Number One spot on the Artists 500 chart for the second straight week on the strength of her surprise album Folklore, which also finished at Number One on the Top 200 Albums chart for the second week in a row. All told, the singer earned 179.4 …
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Lindsey Buckingham has kept a low profile since he was sidelined by emergency heart surgery in February 2019, but he re-emerged on Friday for a four-song acoustic set via Zoom for the tech company Nutanix. Buckingham played the Fleetwood Mac songs “Never Going Back Again” and “Big Love,” along with …
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Last year, Dawes celebrated the 10th year anniversary of their first album North Hills with a reissue and tour — and their latest two singles prove they’re still going strong. Last month, they released “Who Do You Think You‘re Talking To?” a charging track about trying to escape the ghosts …
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Last month, Halestorm enlisted Evanescence’s Amy Lee for a new version of their song “Break In,” originally from their 2012 albumThe Strange Case of… On Thursday, the band shared a clip of Lee performing the song in the studio with Halestorm lead singer Lzzy Hale; the two trade off impassioned …
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Patti Smith will perform a special show featuring music and excerpts from her most recent memoir, broadcasting digitally September 4th at 9 p.m. ET. Smith will film the performance at the Murmrr Theatre in Brooklyn, where she’ll read from her 2019 book Year of the Monkey and play a handful …
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Brandy‘s ascent in the Nineties was meteoric. Following the release of her self-titled debut, which spawned an early hit with the single “Baby,” she landed a starring role on the popular sitcom Moesha. By the release of 1998’s Never Say Never, she was on her way to becoming a full-fledged …
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British singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas returned toThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night to perform a gorgeous rendition of her song “Bittersweet.” Filmed at London’s Roundhouse theater, the performance features La Havas playing guitar and singing on a stage kitted out like a living room — an appropriate …
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Joe Satriani morphs into otherworldly creatures in the animated video for “Yesterday’s Yesterday,” a track off his latest album, Shapeshifting. Directed remotely by his son, ZZ Satriani, the clip begins at the doors of “Joe Satriani’s Shapeshifting Club,” which open across the song’s buoyant whistling. Animated drawings of Satriani appear, …
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If there’s one song that sums up the stoic guitar genius of Peter Green, it’s “Jumping at Shadows,” recorded live in February 1970, at the Boston Tea Party. Green was on top of the world; a 23-year-old rock star leading the London band he founded, Fleetwood Mac. They were the …
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Noah Cyrus has released a cover of Mac Miller’s “Dunno” in honor of the late rapper. “Mac was such a beautiful and respected artist, and his loss was felt around the world,” Cyrus writes in a statement. “His legacy lives on through his incredible music. I’m so proud to cover …
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