After recently unveiling a pair of new songs, the Smashing Pumpkins have announced their new double album Cyr, due out November 27th. The LP features 20 tracks, including the title track “Cyr” and “The Colour of Love,” and was recorded in the band’s native Chicago with Billy Corgan serving as …
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Michael Stipe appeared on Late Night to talk Donald Trump, R.E.M. in the Reagan Era and his late friend, Hal Willner. Stipe first traced Trump’s rise to President: “He started as a failed midtown real estate developer, then became a successful reality TV star,” he said. “Now we get this …
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In the years leading up to the creation of one of the defining albums of thrash metal, Megadeth‘s 1990 LP Rust in Peace, the band members were going through hell. Frontman Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson had formed the group in 1983, after Mustaine’s ejection from Metallica, and even …
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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday it has charged T.I. for the rapper’s role in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. The SEC implicated five Atlanta-area people — including Clifford “T.I.” Harris — for promoting FLiK and CoinSpark, “two unregistered and fraudulent initial coin offerings (ICOs)” led by film producer Ryan …
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John Legend was the Thursday night guest host for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he introduced the episode’s musical guest: John Legend. “My next guest is my wife’s favorite artist, and if he isn’t…well then, we’re going to talk about that when I get home,” Legend quipped when introducing his own performance. …
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Anohni shared a new single, “R.N.C 2020,” a reaction to the 2020 Republican National Convention. The singer also penned an essay via The Guardian explaining the track. The song features a distorted loop from a concert in New York City that Anohni performed in her early twenties. “Trump is on …
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Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s “WAP” returned to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, earning 43.6 millions streams. The collaboration debuted at Number One two weeks ago before briefly ceding the top spot to Drake and Lil Durk’s “Laugh Now Cry Later.” Drake’s single fell …
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Jean-Claude Van Damme takes his limber dance moves to a parking lot and the desert in the new music video for French duo AaRON’s “Ultrarêve.” The dance-rock group, which previously recruited John Malkovich for their similarly quirky 2015 video “Blouson Noir,” said the Belgian action star initially reached out to …
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HeadCount, the non-profit group that promotes voter registration through music and the arts, has launched a virtual HeadCount Festival Challenge this year with participating events and organizers, including Coachella, Electric Forest, Bonnaroo and more than a dozen others. Each festival has agreed to promote online voter registration via social media …
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While appearing on his SiriusXM channel Ozzy’s Boneyard, Ozzy Osbourne encouraged listeners to wear a mask and practice social distancing. “Wear a mask, wash hands, social distance,” he told co-host Billy Morrison. “I don’t go anywhere. If the president says something, I do the opposite. He changes his mind every …
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