Joni Mitchell will receive the 2022 MusiCares Person of the Year Award at the Recording Academy charity’s annual pre-Grammys gala, January 29th, 2022, Variety reports. “I’m honored to be chosen as person of the year by this great charity,” Mitchell said in a statement. “I look forward to being part …
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Metallica have teased yet another track from their massive 30th anniversary Black Album reissue project, a live recording of “Of Wolf and Man.” The track was taken from Metallica’s May 22nd, 1993 show in Mannheim, Germany, and it opens with James Hetfield delivering a delightful dedication: “This one goes out …
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After pandemic-related delays, Primus finally kicked off their Rush tribute tour on Tuesday in Boise, Idaho. Following a set of their own music, the band performed Rush‘s 1977 album A Farewell to Kings in its entirety, which you can watch above. They closed with the extensive “Cygnus X-1 Book I: …
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Quinn, a member of the Canadian women’s soccer team, became the first trans athlete to ever win a gold medal when Team Canada defeated Team Sweden Friday in the Tokyo Olympics finals. CNN reports that Quinn is also the first non-binary athlete to medal at the Olympic Games. Quinn previously …
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Foo Fighters’ tour returned to Kansas Thursday, giving the band an opportunity to reignite their longstanding feud with the Westboro Baptist Church, which routinely descends on the parking lot outside Foo Fighters shows with their hate-filled signs. As fans began congregating in the parking lot outside Bonner Springs’ Azura Amphitheater, …
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We are born, we live, and we die. Before we can get on that particular merry-go-round, however, we must first be interviewed. The interrogator is tall, quiet, fastidious, well-dressed. Small granny spectacles perch on his nose as he asks questions of those who sit before him. And when he’s not …
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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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Jeff Bezos, a man with an obscene amount of money who probably pays less in taxes than you, used his money to launch himself into space Tuesday, July 20th. During a summer that’s been marred by severe weather around the globe, spurred by the increasingly drastic effects of climate change, …
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