Harry Shearer, who portrayed bassist Derek Smalls in the 1984 parody-rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, is releasing his debut solo LP in character.Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing)arrives on April 13th via Twanky Records/BMG. David Crosby, Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, Peter Frampton, Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad …
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Eric Clapton revealed that he was going deaf while discussing his ongoing health issues and the difficulties of playing guitar in his Seventies during an interview with BBC 2. Clapton noted he plans to keep performing live, but said, “The only thing I’m concerned with now is being in my …
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When the Cars reunited in 2010 to cut their new album Move Like This they could have easily stayed on the road for a solid two years supporting it. They have more hits than just about any other band of their era and since they’d been completely inactive since splitting …
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Lana Del Rey partnered with Børns on the new synth-pop hymn, “God Save Our Young Blood.” The track will appear on Børns’ upcoming album, Blue Madonna, out January 12th via Interscope. The track finds Børns and Del Rey crooning about late nights and young love over gauzy synths and steady …
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Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand has requested an in-person meeting with Lorde after the singer canceled her June 2018 concert in Tel Aviv due to the ongoing cultural boycott. “It is regrettable that you have canceled your concert in Tel Aviv and have disappointed all your fans in Israel,” Dr. …
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Lil Peep drives a crowd wild but keeps a girl on the hook in the new video for the late emo-rapper’s “Save That Shit.” Peep died of a drug overdose in November at the age of 21. The Mezzy and Heavy Rayn-directed clip is packed with shots of Lil Peep …
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Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker released a rumbling cover of Nick Cave‘s “Red Right Hand” on Wednesday. The song is the theme for the fourth season of the BBC series Peaky Blinders, which debuted November 15th. Cave’s original, released in 1994, is spare and threatening. The minimal instrumentation keeps the …
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G-Eazy will embark on a North American tour next year in support of his forthcoming album, The Beautiful and Damned. The trek begins February 15th at the Smart Financial Centre in Houston and wraps March 20th at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The trek includes stops in …
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From My Morning Jacket’s early days, frontman Jim James had a thing for vocal reverb. On his second solo covers set, it persists, and serves the project well – these classic songs feel like live broadcasts from distant memory, clouds in heaven, or an empty theater after everyone’s gone home. …
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Dave East may be the least likely member of New York’s new rap aristocracy to conquer the charts. The East Harlem native’s peers, like Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, French Montana and A$AP Rocky, all crested via genre-blending songs that blur the line between electronic pop and clubby trap anthems and …
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