When Flea refers to you as “the greatest fucking electric bass player,” you know you’ve done something right. Just ask MonoNeon, who appeared in a video on the Red Hot Chili Peppers member’s Instagram this summer. The artist, born Dywane Thomas Jr., likely realized he was headed in a fruitful …
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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump was denied a second term in office in a landmark victory for Democratic challenger Joe Biden. And with Biden winning the most votes of any candidate in U.S. history, citizens across the nation celebrated the news of Trump’s loss by taking to the streets, …
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Iggy Pop praised Nine Inch Nails’ “dark and lonely” party music and “master artist” Trent Reznor as the Stooges singer welcomed The Downward Spiral band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “Listening to Nine Inch Nails’ music — which is so often called ‘industrial’ — I actually hear …
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It took a war for System of a Down to record new music. After seeing the country of Azerbaijan start a conflict with Armenia in September, the musicians, who are all of Armenian descent, rushed into the studio to record two new songs, “Protect the Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz,” to …
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The deluxe reissue of Luke Combs‘ What You See Is What You Get debuted at Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. In 2020, deluxe sets have been a reliable way of giving new commercial life to an already-released album, especially in hip-hop. Combs showed that …
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Big Boi and Sleepy Brown brought fellow Atlanta luminaries Killer Mike and Big Rube to The Tonight Show for a rendition of their new song “We the Ones” on Monday, November 2nd. The song has a fiery political edge, and the performance opened with Big Rube delivering a bit of …
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Bruce Springsteen narrates and soundtracks a new campaign ad for Joe Biden that spotlights the Democratic candidate’s “hometown” of Scranton, Pennsylvania. “Scranton, Pennsylvania. Here, success isn’t handed down. It’s forged in sweat, grit and determination,” Springsteen says over shots of life in the swing-state city. “This is his hometown. In …
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There are few singer-songwriters who can claim a more prolific peak creative period than Adrianne Lenker’s past five years. Since 2016, she’s helmed four albums with her band Big Thief as well as several solo outings, including her informatively-titled recent twin releases Songs and Instrumentals. Like Neil Young in the …
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A month after surprise-releasing their latest album, the dark sign-of-the-times LP The New OK, Drive-By Truckers have posted a potent video for the album’s title track. Featuring footage from the summer of protests in Patterson Hood’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, the video serves as a stark backdrop for the song’s …
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Demi Lovato has partnered with the Lincoln Project on a political ad campaign with her song “Commander in Chief” ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The ad builds upon a music video for the song, above, that was created by the Lincoln Project and released earlier this month, alongside Lovato’s …
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