Smashing Pumpkins will livestream their upcoming Seattle, Washington concert via Twitter on Friday, August 24th starting at 11:15 p.m. ET. The broadcast, part of the Live Nation Concert series, will document the band’s ongoing reunion tour featuring three-fourths of their classic line-up: singer-guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer …
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Yoko Ono unveiled a daring and harrowing new version of her 1995 song “Warzone,” which will serve as the title track for her upcoming album. Warzone finds Ono reimagining 13 of her own songs originally released between 1970 and 2009. The record will arrive October 19th via Chimera Music. The …
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The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has hosted a deep and diverse lineup for the Peach Music Festival since the event was launched by the Allman Brothers Band in 2012, but the seventh annual rendition provided the most colorful bill yet. From Allman Brothers co-founder Dickey Betts and …
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Russian punk groupPussy Riot released a new song and video, “Track About Good Cop,” in the wake of their pitch invasion protest at Sunday’s World Cup final in Moscow. The song moves between shimmering euro-pop and abrasive bursts of dance-punk. The lyrics seem to allude to the statement Pussy Riot …
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Whitney Houston‘s mother Cissy responded to allegations in the new documentary Whitney that the late singer’s cousin molested her during childhood. “By this statement we do not intend to defend, condone or excuse the crime of molestation.” Cissy Houston said in a statement to People. “We cannot, however, overstate the …
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Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker will be posthumously honored with a street co-named after him in New York. Becker died on September 3rd, 2017. He was 67. The Walter Becker Way sign will be placed on the street where he grew up in Forest Hills, Queens. New York City Council …
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Bassist Matt Dresdner still remembers the first time he heard Mia Zapata sing, a few months before they started their band the Gits. It was in the spring of 1986 at an open mic event on the campus of Ohio’s Antioch College, where he and Zapata were going to school. …
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