Lily Rose was running on empty when she uploaded a clip of her song “Villain” to TikTok in December 2020. She’d been working on her music career for several years, steadily building a following around the South, but her bank account was dipping lower and lower. The video, which Rose …
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Following their five-night stand at Stubb’s BBQ in their hometown of Austin, Black Pumas have announced a 2021-2022 tour through the U.S. and Europe, consisting of both rescheduled 2020 shows as well as new sets. The tour kicks off July 29th with a set at Lollapalooza, and includes four nights …
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SlipknotandStone SourfrontmanCorey Taylor recentlykicked offa solo trek dubbed the CMFTour, playing his first real concerts in over a year while following Covid-19 safety protocols. He explained why he wanted to get back on the road so quickly inan op-ed for Rolling Stonein March: “People need release and we’re ready to …
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Former Pearl Jam drummer Dave Abbruzzese has joined forces with the Pearl Jam France Facebook community to rerecord the band’s 1993 classic “Rearviewmirror.” The seven-minute video cuts between several fans taking turns on vocals, guitars, and bass, while Abbruzzese handles the drums, just as he did on the original recording. …
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Alicia Keys is commemorating the 20th anniversary of her debut albumSongs in A Minor with a deluxe special edition. Songs in A Minor (20th Anniversary Edition) will feature the album’s original 16 tracks plus two previously unreleased bonus tracks, “Foolish Heart” and “Crazy (Mi Corazon),” from the original album recording …
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Mudhoney are releasing a deluxe edition of their sophomore album, 1991’s Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, to mark the LP’s 30th anniversary. The remastered set arrives on July 23rd via Sub Pop and it’s available for preorder. In conjunction with the announcement, the group dropped a Duncan Sharp-directed video for …
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After releasing the solo project And It’s Still Alright in 2020, Nathaniel Rateliff will reassemble his band the Night Sweats for a summer and fall tour. The Americana soul singer announced the 24-date trek on Monday. Rateliff’s tour kicks off July 20th in Charlotte, North Carolina, and runs through mid-October, …
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For over a decade, J. Cole has rapped as the enlightened everyman, navigating issues of race, class, and gender like a thoughtful jock. His latest release, The Off-Season, finds him pondering inventive gun violence prevention measures one moment, and lobbing sexist locker-room insults the next (“Check your genitalia, pussy-niggas bleedin’ …
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Mdou Moctar has previously claimed, “I don’t know what rock is exactly,” and that’s a good thing listening to the Niger-based Tuareg singer-songwriter’s latest album, Afrique Victime. There’s a unique sense of freedom in the record’s eight songs that most household-name rockers will never understand, since North American and European …
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Anderson East reckons with a collective need for clarity in “Drugs,” the funky new release from his upcoming album Maybe We Never Die. The follow-up to 2018’s Encore, Maybe We Never Die will come out August 20th. Veering away from the retro R&B sounds that have been a mainstay of …
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