Dashboard Confessional‘s Chris Carrabba is self-isolating at his home in Tennessee as he prepares for his charity livestream, As Social As I Get Now, Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST. All proceeds will go to Music Health Alliance to fund COVID-19 relief efforts, and Spotify will match donations. In the meantime, …
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Miley Cyrus performed an acoustic cover of the Pink Floyd classic “Wish You Were Here” as musical guest on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live at Home. Sitting next to a fire pit that lent the performance a red glow, Cyrus and her socially distanced guitarist Andrew Watt (who …
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Sara Evans makes several unexpected song choices on her upcoming covers album Copy That, which includes versions of tunes from the Wallflowers, the Pretenders, and Hank Williams. One of her most unusual covers is “Come On Eileen,” the Eighties hit by left-field English new wave group Dexys Midnight Runners, which …
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The Beatles‘ 1968 animated movie, Yellow Submarine, is coming to the band’s official YouTube channel on Saturday, April 25th, at noon EDT as a one-time-only special event. The lyrics will appear on the bottom of the screen so the whole world can sing together as one during the coronavirus lockdown. …
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Megan Thee Stallion (and her adorable French bulldog Thor) called into Jimmy Fallon’s at-home Tonight Show on Monday night and announced that she’s working on a new album. “I’ve been recording [here in L.A.],” she said. “But you know, that’s the best thing about quarantine. I would have been working …
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A handwritten lyric manuscript of Bob Dylan‘s 1964 protest classic “The Times They Are a-Changin’” are being sold $2.2 million. If that price is met, it will set a record high for song lyrics. The previous record was reached in 2014 when the lyrics for Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” …
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Marcus King sets his song “One Day She’s Here” to an inventive new music video that finds the singer-guitarist and his lover just feet apart but walking in opposite directions. When they do connect, it’s fleeting, mirroring the song’s chorus of “one day she’s here/the next she’s gone.” The South …
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Jamie xx has returned to liven up your self-isolation with “Idontknow,” the xx musician’s first solo music since the release of his acclaimed 2015 LP In Colour. The percussion-heavy track builds steadily over five minutes, eventually settling around a series of hypnotic vocal samples. In addition to the track’s digital …
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Three concerts by the Tangiers Blues Band, including one featuring Gary Clark Jr., will stream Saturday in an effort to raise money for COVID-19 relief. The virtual Benefit Concert for the Frontline Healthcare Workers of Weill Cornell Medicine will feature a pair of Tangiers Blues Band shows from Massachusetts’ Egremont …
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As the 1980s began, country superstar Kenny Rogers was fast becoming that genre’s most successful pop crossover artist. In September 1980, after a streak of major hits helmed by producer Larry Butler, Rogers enlisted songwriter Lionel Richie, of the Commodores, to write him a song. “Lady,” also produced by Richie, …
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