UPDATE (5/18): Travis McCready’s Monday night concert at TempleLive in Fort Smith, Arkansas, will stream live on Goldstar.com. Tickets are $12; the show begins at 8 p.m. CT. McCready’s concert is being billed as the “first live indoor concert since the COVID-19 shutdown.” **** UPDATE: Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson approved …
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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has ordered a music venue not to go ahead with a planned concert this week in what would be America’s first show since stay-at-home guidelines began for most of the country two months ago. The state Department of Health issued a cease-and-desist against TempleLive in Fort …
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Post Malone quietly relaunched his lifestyle brand, Shaboink, on Monday, introducing a partnership with Direct Relief toprovide personal protective equipment to doctors and nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the partnership, Shaboink will donate 40,000 N95 masks to be distributed to frontline medical workers …
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Kentucky singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman joinsRolling Stone on our latest installment of In My Room, where artists perform from their homes in quarantine. This week, we’re highlighting up-and-coming artists such as Goodman, a recent signee to Verve Forecast whose upcoming album, Old Time Feeling, was co-produced by My Morning Jacket frontman …
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Steve Van Zandt first met Little Richard when the guitarist was on the oldies circuit as a young backing musician for the Dovells in 1973. Van Zandt would eventually take on a nickname, Little Steven, that was at least in part a tribute to one of his greatest rock & …
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Damien Chazelle (Whiplash,La La Land, First Man) made his television debut on Friday with The Eddy, a contemporary Parisian jazz drama series that just dropped its first full season on Netflix. The show also released its soundtrack, which features a jazzy title track and theme for the show sung by …
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Weezer send a hopeful note around the world in the video for their new song, “Hero,” off their upcoming album, Van Weezer. The track is a classic Weezer anthem packed with plenty of big, meaty guitar riffs and lyrics from Rivers Cuomo that grapple with personal dreams of greatness and …
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Kent State massacre, in which the Ohio National Guard murdered four student protestors during an anti–Vietnam War demonstration on campus. “For a moment, time stood still,” Devo’s Jerry Casale told Rolling Stone in a chilling recounting of the events of that day. …
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In mid-March, while Americans were beginning to reckon with job losses and isolation spurred by coast-to-coast shelter-in-place orders, BJ Barham performed the American Aquarium songbook for shut-in fans via livestream, one album at a time. On the sixth night, he debuted the band’s new album, Lamentations (New West Records), released …
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Liam Gallagher lashed out as his brother and former bandmate Noel Gallagher Thursday after the latter released a long-lost Oasis demo titled “Don’t Stop,” a track featuring lead vocals by Noel. “Well there’s something missing in this god almighty stew and it’s your brother your brother don’t forget your brother,” …
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