Netflix has announced a new documentary on Travis Scott. Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly traces the rapper’s relatively quick rise to fame and the new trailer for the White Trash Tyler-directed film traverses the rapper’s childhood, with commentary from family and friends, on through to his riveting performances. …
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Brooklyn indie rockers DIIV have shared the lumbering and brutally honest new song “Taker” off their upcoming album, Deceiver, out October 4th via Captured Tracks. “Taker” recalls classic grunge-era ballads, moving at a brooding, down-tempo pace as the drums thud and the guitars shift between a crackle and a roar. …
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Lenny Kravitz, John Travolta and Billy Ray Cyrus have signed on as presenters for the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. Rick Ross, Salt-N-Pepa, Ice-T, Bebe Rexha, Megan Thee Stallion, French Montana, Jonathan Van Ness, Keke Palmer, Lindsey Vonn, Hailee Steinfeld, NHL player P.K. Subban, former NFL star Victor Cruz and …
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Questlove will co-executive produce an upcoming Broadway musical based on Soul Train, the iconic music variety program that aired from 1971 to 2006. The play, tentatively slated to arrive in 2021 to honor the TV series’ 50th anniversary, will trace the personal story of Soul Train host and creator Don …
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The guitar Duane Allman played on Derek and the Dominoes’ classic “Layla” recently sold at auction for $1 million. Allman, Number Nine on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists list, also played the 1957 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop – which had been on display at the Allman Brothers’ Big House museum …
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When Long Beach, California, rockers Rival Sons performed at Bonnaroo this past June, the band turned down its amps to record three songs inside the festival’s “Haybale Studio.” Literally a studio made of hundreds of bales of hay, the sessions are unique to Bonnaroo and capture artists in a naturally …
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Brittany Howard has shared her soulful new song “He Loves Me,” the Alabama Shakes singer’s contemplative track about reconnecting with God from her upcoming debut solo LP Jaime. “’He Loves Me’ is a very important track on my record. It is a song I deeply want to share to help …
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When Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires formed the Highwomen as the female answer to the male country supergroup the Highwaymen, their first order of business may have been considered blasphemy by some: rewriting “Highwayman,” the 1985 theme song of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson’s all-star band. …
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Two and a half minutes of careening punk-metal bile, Binky Philips and the Planets’ “Splitsville for Bust” sounds like somethingthat could have been heard blaring out of a downtown New York club in the early Seventies. And there’s a reason for that: It’s a new and inordinately hooky rocker from …
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Nasty Cherry have released their third new single “Live Forever.” The song arrives with a video directed by the band’s bassist Georgia Somary. Guitarist Chloe Chaidez describes “Live Forever” as “a fiery smasher about being yourself and dancing through the sadness of life” while Somary adds that “it’s a spicy …
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