“We’re gonna do a mood shift,” Trent Reznor told the audience at Nine Inch Nails‘ gig Friday night in Las Vegas. “Instead of some happy, upbeat songs,” he said, pausing dramatically for laughter, “we’re gonna switch it up and do something melancholy.” His band then cued up the cascading synths …
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Just days after the massive CMA Music Festival wrapped up in Nashville, country music’s Kacey Musgraves played to a packed house at Music City’s Bridgestone Arena. The crowd watching her skewed much younger than the audience who had just attended the four-day country-music orgy that takes place throughout the city’s …
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Thursday night, Kanye West and Kid Cudi teamed up as Kids See Ghosts to release their first album as a duo. Kids See Ghosts premiered via a livestreamed listening party held outside of Los Angeles in the early hours of Friday morning; Kanye and Kid Cudi were both in attendance. …
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Guns N’ Roses performed “Shadow of Your Love” live for the first time in more than 30 years during their Not in This Lifetime tour stop at the Dyrskuepladsen in Odenske, Denmark. The band’s former B-side tune serves as a lead single for their massiveAppetite for Destruction Locked N’ Loaded …
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Lily Allen will embark on her first North American tour in four years this fall. The British singer will hit the road in support of her upcoming album No Shame. The 21-date North American leg – which includes a stop at the Austin City Limits Festival in October – kicks …
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The Edge knows that U2‘s ongoing Experience + Innocence Tour – where they play nearly all of their new LP Songs of Experience and skip most of their big radio hits – isn’t for everyone. “We felt like if you wanted to hear the Joshua Tree songs, there was the …
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BobDylan fans will forever argue about the precise moment when his career hit rock bottom, but most pin it somewhere around the time that Down in the Groove landed with a thud in record stores in May 1988. Columbia executives held up its release for a full year after he …
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There are many ways to grow up in pop music: You can test out a new genre, change up your look or start singing about smoking weed. Transitioning your career from teen to adult is the true test of sustainability, and while Shawn Mendes is only 19 years old, his …
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With the breakneck pace of the modern news cycle, last summer’s tragic Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, already feels like a lifetime ago. But it’s one event that Jesse Dayton won’t forget any time soon – and on his fiery new protest song “Charlottesville,” the Austin singer-guitarist makes …
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While the world was watching Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle this past weekend, producer Anna Barry was handed a precious challenge: Craft an immaculate recording of the music from the Royal Wedding and have it up on streaming services as soon as possible – the label says they had it …
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