UPDATE:A rep for Betts said that the musician’s surgery “was a success.” “The outpouring of support from all over the world has been overwhelming and amazing. We are so appreciative,” the rep said in a statement. “Thank you all so much for your wonderful thoughts and prayers. We will keep …
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“One fine morning I woke up early to find the fascist at my door,” sings Tom Waits in rough and mournful voice on “Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful),” a song from guitarist Marc Ribot‘s new album Goodbye Beautiful/Songs of Resistance 1942–2018. It’s not hard to see the modern parallel to this …
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Gucci Mane recruits Bruno Mars and Kodak Black for the rapper’s latest single “Wake Up in the Sky,” a cut purportedly off the prolific Gucci Mane’s upcoming LP Evil Genius. Mars, who also produced the track, delivers the skyscraping chorus – “I drink ’til I’m drunk/ Smoke til I’m high …
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Paul Oakenfold likes to boldly DJ where no man has DJ’ed before. In 2003, he became the first person to tote turntables onto the Great Wall of China. Last year, he played a set for the sherpas and mountaineers at Everest Base Camp. And on Thursday night, as the sun …
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Rachid Taha, the French-Algerian singer best known for fusing rock with raï, a form of traditional Algerian folk, has died from a heart attack at age 59. “It is with regret and immense sadness that his son Lyes, his family and relatives, his friends and his record label Naïve, announce …
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Joan Jett plays a classic hard-rocking riff on “Fresh Start,” a song from the soundtrack to her upcoming autobiographical documentary Bad Reputation, as she sings about wanting to start over anew. “So you say you’re not satisfied and you want a bigger piece of pie,” she sings, “take my advice …
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Courtney Barnett‘s Tell Me How You Really Feel was noisier and darker than her excellent 2015 debut. But in a taping for our raw “Take One” video series, Barnett decided to show that those new songs work just as well completely unplugged. Armed with only an acoustic guitar, Barnett delivered …
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“As it’s plain to see,” DMC explained to an audience of tens of thousands in 1985, “we have no band, just Jam Master Jay.” Broadcast to a potential audience of nearly two billion people the world over, Run-D.M.C.‘s performance at the 1985 Live Aid concerts was probably hip-hop‘s most-witnessed seven …
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It was exactly 40 years ago today that Who drummer Keith Moon was found dead at a London flat owned by Harry Nilsson after overdosing on clomethiazole, which he was prescribed to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms. By tragic coincidence, it was the exact same apartment where Cass Elliott of …
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Metric seize a grandiose moment on their new song “Now or Never Now,” the latest offering from the Canadian group’s upcoming album, Art of Doubt, out September 21st. “Now or Never Now” is a sprawling cut that flies forward on the back of a whirlwind rush of drums while an …
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