Old Dominion and Brothers Osborne had a running joke on Twitter for a while about being mistaken for the other. Apparently it’s easy to confuse bands with duos in country music — even if their sounds couldn’t be more different. “It still happens,” says Old Dominion’s singer Matthew Ramsey, calling …
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The 1975 have released the latest taste of their upcoming 2020 album Notes on a Conditional Form with new song “Frail State of Mind.” The band’s third album, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, came out last year. Singer Matty Healy’s vocals sit low in the mix on the drum-heavy song. …
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Weyes Blood has released alternate takes of tracks from her 2019 critically acclaimed album Titanic Rising. Compiled on an EP titled Rough Trade Session, the set is available now via Sub Pop. Produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, the EP was originally released as a bonus CD included in Rough Trade’s release …
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Toto wrapped up the final show of their 40 Trips Around the Sun tour at Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday night, and, according to guitarist Steve Lukather, it’s going to be their last performance for quite some time. “I don’t know what the future-future’s gonna be, but I do …
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The Flaming Lips will release their first-ever live album, The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, November 29th via Warner Records. The album features the band’s 2016 live performance of the band’s seminal 1999 effort The Soft Bulletin, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this …
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Gordon Ramsay, the English chef who is almost as well-known for his creative cursing as his restaurants, made an unexpected appearance at the top of Spotify’s U.S. viral chart recently. Ramsay owes his musical moment to a pair of rapper-producers from Baytown, Texas: 19-year-old HL Wave and 21-year-old Jhonny Flames, …
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In his 1980 country rock song, “El Noa Noa,” Mexican balladeer Juan Gabriel sang of the magical dancehall he once frequented in Ciudad Juarez: a place where everything and everyone was different, and where you could dance happily through the night. Over the years, the song became embraced by the …
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Big Thief appeared onThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday night to perform their song “Not,” from their new albumTwo Hands. The track got a hard-rock spin for the band’s live performance, with plenty of distorted guitar fuzz, manic drums and beautiful, wailing vocals from Adrianne Lenker, who veered into …
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Miranda Lambert continues to roll out tracks from her new album Wildcard at a steady pace, releasing the swaying agave ode “Tequila Does” overnight. This marks the seventh track to appear ahead of the album’s November 1st street date. Alternating between woozy, waltz-time sections and more groove-driven, 4/4 choruses, “Tequila …
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It’s the day after Metallica played a stunning concert with the San Francisco Symphony at the city’s enormous new Chase Center, and guitarist Kirk Hammett is letting his hair down in a tank top at his favorite restaurant in Sonoma, California. He’s here for a photo shoot for an upcoming …
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