The family of late Slipknot bassist Paul Gray secured a settlement for the rocker’s 2010 death from a drug overdose, the Des Moines Register reports. The Gray family sued pain relief specialist Dr. Daniel Baldi and his former employers, including the hospital company UnityPoint-Des Moines. The case was scheduled to …
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Jimi Hendrix‘s previously unreleased cover of Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy” was released viaBBC Radio 6.The late guitarist recorded the famous blues cut at the Record Plant in New York on April 22, 1969.He was accompanied by bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, who soon adopted the name the Band …
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Queen, Tina Turner, Neil Diamond and Emmylou Harris are among the artists who will receive the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. The organization behind the Grammys will also hand out its Special Merit Awards to Louis Jordan, the Metersand Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine. This year’s honorees will …
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Solange has canceled her New Year’s Eve performance that was to take place during the Afropunk Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa. The singer revealed she has been treating an autonomic disorder and her doctors have advised her to bow out of the trip and concert. “Wrote, deleted and rewrote this …
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Kendrick Lamar explores the highs and lows of romance in the new video for “Love,” a track off the rapper’s Damn. In the artfully composed video, the course of a relationship is shown from the perspective of a dinner table, where Lamar and his girl make love, talk and loudly …
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The Decemberists resurrected an unused set of Hamilton lyrics with “Ben Franklin’s Song,” the first installment of Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s monthly “Hamildrops” series. The triumphant, expletive-laced folk-rock track chronicles Franklin’s numerous accomplishments as an inventor, writer and diplomat. “Do you know who the fuck I am?” bandleader Colin Meloy sings on …
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UPDATE:Kesha postponed her spring tour dates in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Japan after tearing her ACL during a February 9th concert in Dubai. The pop star is undergoing surgery to mend her knee and is expected to be healthy enough to embark on her co-headlining tour with Macklemore this …
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The Beach Boysunearthed more archival material, including dozens of previously unreleased songs, with their two new retrospective sets, 1967 – Sunshine Tomorrow 2: The Studio Sessions and Live Sunshine – 1967. The digital audio collections, available to purchase or stream now, follow the June-issued double-LP, 1967 – Sunshine Tomorrow. All …
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About half a year before his death in 2015, Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister finished what would be his last solo recording, a collaboration with guitarist Chris Declercq. The song, “We Are the Ones,” bears all of Kilmister’s trademarks: gritty vocals with lyrics like “I can escape the feeling/I know just …
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The estate of Walter Becker has responded to a lawsuit filed by his Steely Dan bandmate Donald Fagen over the ownership of the band following Becker’s September 3rd death. In Fagen’s lawsuit, the singer accuses Becker’s estate of reneging on a Buy/Sell Agreement that he and Becker agreed to in …
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