Thursday night, the long-running concert series Austin City Limits hosted a special telethon fundraiser, ACL Stands With Austin, benefitting music and service industry workers hit hardest by the cancellation of South by Southwest and other live music events because of the coronavirus outbreak. The two-hour special featured performances from an …
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Lakeith Stanfield plays it again with homages to Casablanca and Joker in the new video for “Fast Life,” his debut single under his music moniker, Htiekal. Directed by Three Dead Crows, the clip opens with an ode to Casablanca in which Stanfield re-creates a scene between Humphrey Bogart’s Rick and …
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Kanye West wants to make the perfect hoodie. In his estimation, the 90-year-old garment “is arguably the most important piece of apparel of the last decade.” Kanye’s quest for said perfect sweatshirt is at the centerpiece of his recent WSJ Magazine cover story. According to writer Christina Brinkley’s description of …
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Manu Dibango, the acclaimed Cameroonian saxophonist whose 1972 hit, “Soul Makossa,” would later be sampled by Michael Jackson, Kanye West, and dozens of other musicians, died Tuesday due to complications from COVID-19. He was 86. A note on Dibango’s Facebook page confirmed his death, as well as the cause (Dibango …
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In this time of self-isolation and social distancing, MTV has rebranded its Unplugged program as Unplugged at Home, an online series featuring artists performing acoustic sets from their own houses. Wyclef Jean delivered the series’ inaugural set Friday, with other artists to be announced in the coming weeks. Wyclef opened …
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Deap Lips — a collaboration between Flaming Lips and Deap Vally — released their self-titled debut LP Friday, and with it the project’s colorful video for their cover of Steppenwolf’s Easy Rider classic “The Pusher.” Since the Oklahoma City psych-rockers and the Los Angeles rock duo first announced their collaboration …
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Bob Weir and Wolf Bros are rescheduling the rest of their spring tour dates until the fall because of the coronavirus outbreak. “The health and wellbeing of our live music community is of the utmost importance,” Weir and his Wolf Bros bandmates, Don Was and Jay Lane, said in a …
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5 Seconds of Summer have once again teamed up with director Hannah Lux Davis for a new music video for their latest single, “Old Me.” Following their collaboration on the rowdy “No Shame” visual, the band takes a more introspective look at their career in this video, recreating key moments …
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Tove Lo announced a North American summer tour. The brief trek launches May 6th in Orlando, Florida and wraps June 25th in Cleveland, Ohio. The electro-pop singer’s live schedule also includes slots at the Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama on May 15th; the Firefly Festival on June 21st in …
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From the moment it opened its doors in 1995 to its closing in 2016, Other Music was one of the most influential record stores in the early aughts, and certainly a vital force in New York’s indie music scene. An upcoming documentary on the shop, titled Other Music, will hit …
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