The Recording Academy will honor the 2020 Special Merit Award recipients with Great Performances: Grammy Salute to Music Legends, a televised awards ceremony and tribute concert. Hosted by Jimmy Jam, the event will air Friday, October 16th at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS. The 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award honorees, as …
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HBO renewed Last Week Tonight With John Oliver for three more seasons, securing the satirical news show through 2023. Casey Bloys, chief content officer for both the network and its on-demand streaming service HBO Max, detailed the new deal on Monday, Variety reports. Oliver, who launched the show in April …
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Phish’s Trey Anastasio — who collaborated with Frederick “Toots” Hibbert on a new version of the Maytals’ “Sweet and Dandy” in 2003 — penned a tribute to the reggae legend following Hibbert’s death Saturday. “I was so sad to wake up this morning and hear about the passing of Toots …
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Modern English will broadcast a virtual concert celebrating their 40th anniversary on September 25th and 26th. The performance will air at 8:30 p.m. ET on the 25th and 8:30 p.m. PT on the 26th, as well as 8:30 p.m. in U.K. European and Asian time zones on the 26th. The …
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In his new book One Last Song, journalist Mike Ayers asks an array of artists an intriguing, but rarely considered question from the endless realm of pop music hypotheticals: If you could choose the last song you’d hear before you died, what would it be? The book, out October 13th …
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In its early days, streaming offered a glimmer of a utopian free-for-all: A music landscape where all artists had equal chances of making it big, where a $9.99-per-month endless buffet of music would drive listeners away from the mainstream and into the niche. Wired editor Chris Anderson was so optimistic …
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Jacquees celebrated Labor Day by releasing a new mixtape,Exit 68, on SoundCloud. The 16-track collection is dedicated to the highway exit near where the R&B singer grew up in Decatur, Georgia. Jacquees doesn’t deviate from his typical formula here: Slow tempos, melismatic vocals that reach back to Lloyd, Avant, and …
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Update: Following blowback, President Trump announced on Twitter that the publication will not be shuttered after all. The Trump administration has decided to shutterStars and Stripes,the award-winning independent military newspaper that began during the Civil War and has continuously published since World War II. The publication has broken many important …
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Unless something very big changes in the next couple of months, 2020 will go down in history as the first year since 1977 that Bob Dylan didn’t perform live even a single time. This obviously isn’t by choice. He was supposed to play Japan in April and then travel across …
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R.E.M., Phoebe Bridgers, Hayley Williams and more appear on the new compilationGood Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, available on Friday for 24 hours only as part of the Bandcamp Fridaysseries. The star-studded, 40-track comp boasts previously unreleased songs, demos, covers and remixes. It includes a live version …
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