Melvins formed a few years before anyone used the word “grunge” as the name of a genre, but they embodied the term perfectly with their deep, sludgy riffs and left-of-center songwriting. Since 1984, they’ve released dozens of albums of uncompromising and sometimes experimental music, and constantly challenged rock norms. When …
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The Rolling Stones recently announced that their summer tour dates would be postponed so Mick Jagger could undergo surgery on his heart. “I’m devastated for having to postpone the tour,” Jagger said in a statement, “but I will be working very hard to be back on stage as soon as …
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In Monday’s daily news show, host Charles Holmes has a special report on the shocking and tragic murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle, whose real name is Ermias Asghedom. The Los Angeles rapper earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album earlier this year. He was shot and killed in L.A. …
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On HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday night, the host talked about socialism in a way that most of the media refuses to. Maher connected his explainer of sorts with the United Nations’ latest annual World Happiness rankings and asked, “If socialism is such a one-way ticket to …
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James Bay has shared the video for his recent Julia Michaels-featuring single “Peer Pressure,” the English singer’s first new song of 2019. The video finds Bay and Michaels intimately performing the single onstage in an empty nightclub as the camera circles around the pair. The “Peer Pressure” video premiered on …
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Back in January, Ruston Kelly posted a very brief video of himself singing a snippet of Taylor Swift‘s “All Too Well,” a beloved album cut from the singer-songwriter’s Red album. “This song rules so hard,” he wrote, tagging both Swift and co-writer Liz Rose. It was apparently more than a …
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Lil Kim will drop a new album on May 17. The rapper announced via Twitter that her latest full-length, which will be her fifth LP and first in 14 years, is titled 9. The music video for the album’s single, “Go Awff,” is expected Friday. Lil Kim’s last album, The …
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UPDATE: In a series of tweets, Sky Ferreira denied claims that “Downhill Lullaby” interpolates the Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” a song whose strings sample sparked a massive lawsuit. https://thisforall.net/skyferreira/status/1110936802376986625 https://thisforall.net/skyferreira/status/1110938670805192704 – Sky Ferreira has unveiled her brooding new song, “Downhill Lullaby,” marking her first original solo music since 2013. The …
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The holograms of late rock icons Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly will share the stage on the upcoming “Rock ‘N’ Roll Dream Tour.” The trek — which features a live band and backing singers, along with remastered audio — will include concurrent North American and European legs.Tickets go on sale …
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Like leaving voicemails and watching baseball, listening to the radio is popular with older people. 70 percent of parents agree with the statement, “FM radio is for people your age,” according to the analytics company Edison Research. Just 34 percent of teens feel the same way. But radio-averse teens aren’t …
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