The National made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night to perform “Oblivions,” a track from their latest album I Am Easy to Find and its accompanying short film. The contemplative song was co-written by frontman Matt Berninger and his wife Carin Besser, and features the vocals …
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Miranda Lambert debuted a new song during her Saturday night set at Nissan Stadium, ripping through the pummeling “Locomotive” for the CMA Fest crowd. It is Lambert’s first new music since releasing the double album The Weight of These Wings in late 2017. Lambert introduced the song, which she told …
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Danzig‘s “Mother” is a great song, but more importantly, it’s a great song that lends itself well to covers. A heavy-metal track about censorship with a melody that wouldn’t be out of place in a Supremes song, “Mother” has been covered by everyone from Sleater-Kinney and Coheed and Cambria to …
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Singer, author, entrepreneur and TV chef Trisha Yearwood offers the first taste of her forthcoming album with the new single “Every Girl in This Town.” A scintillating, slow-building power ballad that soars with Yearwood’s rafter-raising vocals at its center, the tune offers a message of empowerment and solidarity to young …
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What a categorically odd Emmy year this is. Because the world assumed Game of Thrones would handily sweep the big drama categories for its final season, many top contenders (including Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies) delayed their second seasons until summer, pushing them into the next Emmy window. And …
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Everybody Works, the 2017 debut album from Jay Som (a.k.a. singer-songwriter Melina Mae Duterte) was “bedroom-pop” that made her own private world seem like a expansive biosphere, fusing influences from Ariel Pink-style L.A. chillwave to Carly Rae Jepsen-aware Eighties-loving bubblegum, confessional indie-rock to yacht-y Eighties R&B. The songs were immediately …
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Just a little over three weeks after celebrating his 70th birthday at Madison Square Garden with help from surprise guest Peter Frampton, Billy Joel returned to the New York arena on Sunday evening and brought Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott along for the ride. He came out onto the stage right …
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Former Ohio Governor John Kasich — a prominent figure in the “Never Trump” wing of the GOP — says he doesn’t see an opening to challenge the president for the Republican nomination in 2020. Speaking at a political conference in Michigan on Thursday, Kasich said, “there’s no path for me …
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Update:Judas Priest have commented on Rob Halford‘s cell-phone kick. “The facts are we love our fans and you can film us all you like and watch our show on your phone rather than in the flesh,” the wrote on Twitter. “However, if you physically interfere with the Metal God’s performance …
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Happy birthday to Stevie Nicks’ best song ever, “Ooh My Love.” It’s a buried treasure in her legendary career — never a hit, not even a single. She’s never sung it live. Just a deep cut from her most tragically underrated solo album, The Other Side of the Mirror, released …
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