Retirement is a fluid concept in music, but at 10 years and counting, Bill Bruford‘s just might be the real deal. Since he announced he was calling it quits in 2009, the prog drumming legend — who worked with Yes, King Crimson, and Genesis before founding his own long-running jazz …
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Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor and John Mellencamp will perform with Sting at the 30th annual Rainforest Fund benefit concert. Hosted by Robert Downey Jr., the event is set to take place at New York’s Beacon Theatre on December 9th. Named “We’ll Be Together” after a 1987 Sting single, the lineup …
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Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich recalls studying at the altar of AC/DC during an interview with Brian Johnson from an upcoming episode of the singer’s TV show, Brian Johnson’s A Life on the Road, airing October 13th on AXS TV. AC/DC tapped Metallica to open for them on their 1991 Monsters …
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Bruce Springsteen has yet to perform a single song from Western Stars in public. However, earlier this year he gathered the large backing band he used on the album at a barn on his New Jersey estate and played it straight through — along with a cover of Glen Campbell’s …
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Lawyers for Brendan Dassey, one of the two men convicted in the murder featured in the Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, announced Wednesday that they will seek clemency from the Wisconsin governor for their client. “We’re filing a petition for executive clemency with Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin,” Dassey’s attorney …
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Margot Robbie‘s Harley Quinn recruits a delightfully ruthless girl gang to take down a criminal mastermind in the new trailer for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), out February 7th, 2020. The new Suicide Squad spin-off finds Quinn separated from her frequent partner-in-crime and -love, …
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Last week, the “transcript” of President Trump’s July 25th call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that Trump tried to pressure Zelensky into investigating a debunked conspiracy theory: that Russia’s well-documented interference in the 2016 election actually originated in Ukraine. On Sunday, it was revealed that Trump already knew the …
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This story originally appeared in The Nation. It is republished here as part of Rolling Stone‘s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. A year ago, inspired by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, young people around the …
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If you’re gonna step in front of 18,000 diehard Metallica fans and lecture them on the history of classical music, you better have something interesting to say. Luckily for Michael Tilson Thomas, music director for the San Francisco Symphony, the act of winning over the crowd Friday night was easy. …
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The final leg of Bob Seger’s Roll Me Away farewell tour kicks off September 12th in Rapid City, South Dakota and four more dates have just been tacked onto the end that will be the last North American shows of the tour. The four concerts will take place in Boston …
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