Will Oldham loves to body surf; it reminds him of being immersed in music. “I like the idea of being without any encumbrance or any equipment,” he tells Rolling Stone. “To be at the mercy of a natural force. … There’s an element of it that’s predictable and an element …
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Lindsey Buckingham is celebrating his 70th birthday today. His former Fleetwood Mac bandmates haven’t issued any sort of public birthday greeting, but they did announce that they’re going to wrap up their 2018–19 world tour with a gig at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on November 16th. The group …
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After three Jeff Tweedy solo records and a memoir, Wilco’s first album since 2016 arrives like a reunion. It sounds like one too: simple, straightforward songs, most with acoustic guitar at the core, other melodic tendrils and rhythms and harmonic drones curling up like ivy, a long-running conversation being picked …
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Magne Furuholmen, the keyboardist and co-songwriter for Norwegian synthpop band A-ha, has responded to a recent re-election video for President Donald Trump that visually borrows from the group’s classic video for “Take on Me.” “You write a song in your youth and you don’t write for a particular group of …
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Following rumors of a potential Van Halen reunion this summer, David Lee Roth said the band was “finished” during an interview with the Talkin’ Rock with Meltdown podcast from Detroit’s 101 WRIF. “It’s been canceled a number of times and I think Van Halen’s finished,” Roth said, before calling his …
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Ahead of the promised Sunday arrival of his new album, Kanye West has announced an IMAX documentary that will follow the release of Jesus Is King. Jesus Is King: A Kanye West Film will screen exclusively in IMAX in theaters worldwide on Friday, October 25th. “Filmed in the summer of …
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This summer Billy Ray Cyrus had an inescapable pop-culture hit. This week, his new country single can barely get arrested. When “Chevys and Fords” was shipped to radio for airplay consideration (“going for adds” in country-radio parlance), only six stations who report to monitoring service Mediabase put it into rotation. …
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The Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country will head to Broadway in 2020, following successful runs off-Broadway and on London’s West End. Preview performances will begin February 7th, while opening night is scheduled for March 5th. The show will be housed at the Belasco Theatre and tickets will …
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Haim are the latest music group to stop by BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, and as per tradition, the trio performed a recent hit (“Summer Girl”) along with a cover of another artist – in this case, Lil Nas X’s latest single “Panini.” But Haim put a twist on the …
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To say Charli XCX took a six-year “break” between her sophomore breakthrough Sucker and her latest, Charli, is a little misleading. Over those six years, the “Blame It on Your Love” singer released two lauded mixtapes, an EP, and a few singles. She also stayed busy writing songs for other …
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