“Let’s say you [are] going through something, and you tell me about it,” says Bronx rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, sitting in a conference room at Atlantic Records, the hood of his Nike jacket pulled tightly around his head and a half-empty Red Bull in hand. “I would make …
Read More »John McLaughlin on His Final U.S. Tour, Revisiting Mahavishnu Orchestra
When John McLaughlin looked through his archives in preparation for an upcoming tour celebrating his pioneering Seventies jazz-rock outfit the Mahavishnu Orchestra, he was shocked by how out-there his old tunes still seemed. “I was into my yoga, my meditation, no drugs, but I wrote some weird music in those …
Read More »Marilyn Manson Splits With Twiggy Ramirez After Rape Allegations
Marilyn Manson has split with his longtime bassist and guitarist Jeordie White after the musician, also known as Twiggy Ramirez, was accused of rape. “I have decided to part ways with Jeordie White as a member of Marilyn Manson,” Manson wrote on Twitter. “He will be replaced for the upcoming …
Read More »Tom Petty Laid to Rest in California
Tom Petty was honored at a private service at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades, California Monday, People reports. Petty died October 2nd at the age of 66 after going into cardiac arrest. Friends and family gathered at the Fellowship Lake Shrine to honor the musician, though it’s …
Read More »Jason Aldean Strikes Defiant Tone at First Show Since Las Vegas
Jason Aldean was three songs into his October 12th tour stop at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the house lights came up. It was his first full concert since the deadly mass shooting October 1st at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas and his first opportunity …
Read More »Anderson East Details New 'Encore' LP
Anderson East will start the new year off with Encore, his sophomore LP for Low Country Sound/Elektra Records, arriving January 12th. This Friday, October 13th, East will perform “All on My Mind,” the LP’s first single, on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Produced by Dave Cobb and recorded at Nashville’s historic …
Read More »Bunny Sigler, 'Philly Sound' Singer and Songwriter, Dead at 76
Walter “Bunny” Sigler, the singer and songwriter who aided the legendary production duo Gamble and Huff in crafting the “Philly Sound” of Seventies soul music, died Friday at the age of 76. Sigler’s longtime attorney Lloyd Remick confirmed the singer’s death, adding that Sigler suffered a heart attack at his …
Read More »See Depeche Mode Perform Outsider Ode 'Cover Me' on 'Kimmel'
As Depeche Mode make their way around the West Coast on their ongoing Global Spirit tour, the band stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to play “Cover Me,” a brooding rock song off 2017’sSpirit LP. The group, who are newly nominated to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, performed …
Read More »Sharon Van Etten Preps Deluxe Reissue of Debut LP
Sharon Van Etten will release a deluxe reissue of her 2009 debut LP, because I was i love, on November 17th. The remastered, remixed vinyl package, dubbed(it was) because i was in love, includes new artwork and liner notes, along with two bonus tracks, “I’m Giving Up on You” and …
Read More »Watch Sam Smith Perform George Michael Medley on BBC Radio 1
Sam Smith delivered a medley of George Michael covers when the singer visited the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Friday. “As this is 50 years of Radio 1, they asked me to pick two covers. So I picked the Alicia Keys one and, for my final cover, I wanted to …
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