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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Roots-music trio Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band adds a fourth member in Dom Flemons for a high-octane cover of “Shake Your Money Maker.” The musicians convened at Sun Records Studio in Memphis in late 2019 to re-create the Elmore James blues standard, which they had first performed together as a …
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Sheryl Crow has announced a pair of virtual at-home concerts, titled “Songs From the Big Green Barn.” The shows will take place at — you guessed it — Crow’s Big Green Barn in Nashville, and will consist of an “Outside” performance on Friday, September 18th, at 9 p.m. ET, and …
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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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One of the joys of Amanda Shires‘ freewheeling livestream series “I So Lounging” is her all-over-the-map choice of cover songs. She’s tackled songs by everyone from Derek and the Dominoes and Bon Iver to Radiohead. Last week, she and husband Jason Isbell dipped into Aerosmith’s Nineties catalog with a version …
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The Chicks remotely performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the 2020 Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, closing out the event. The last time the band performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” for a large audience, it was back in January 2003 for Super Bowl XXXVII, about a month and a half before …
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