Ahead of Joe Biden’s announcement for his female running mate in the 2020 election, Sheryl Crow has released a timely video for her rerecorded version of “Woman in the White House.“ Directed by Peter Harding, the clip features footage from the women’s suffrage movement interspersed with scenes from the current …
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Tom Morello is pleased about one aspect of life in 2020, at least: More people than ever in the United States are raging against the machine. “There’s a lot of non-Black people fighting back, too,” he says, in the latest edition of our Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition video series. …
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Neil Young‘s most recent Fireside Session featured a new rendition of his 2006 song “Lookin’ for a Leader” that lambasted President Trump and urged people to vote against him in the 2020 election. He’s now calling the song “Looking for a Leader 2020” and he’s released it onto streaming services; …
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“Rain on Me” collaborators Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga lead the nominees at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, with both singers up for nine Moonmen at the August 30th event. The duo’s “Rain on Me” earned seven nominations on its own, including Video of the Year, Song of the …
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Miss Mercy, the Frank Zappa muse and style icon who co-founded GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), has died at age 71, according to a social media message that fellow GTO Pamela Des Barres posted Tuesday. No cause of death was given. “My beloved sister for most of my life, Miss Mercy …
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Against a backdrop of shuddering electronic orchestral strings, big-riffing metal guitar and echoey drums, vocalist ARO — whose name is pronounced “arrow” — sings about how a possibly imagined relationship weighs heavy on her soul on her new single, “Shared Something With the Night.” The track (ARO’s first new music …
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Yo La Tengo have corralled their recent string of new tracks for an instrumental album titled We Have Amnesia Sometimes, which the long-running New Jersey band created during a week of socially distanced recording sessions this past spring. The album’s five improvisational tracks are available to stream now at Yo …
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The Waterboys are out with a high-energy, jazzy new song “The Soul Singer,” the opening track to their upcoming 14th studio album, Good Luck, Seeker (out August 21st via Cooking Vinyl). The song dropped Wednesday via a psychedelic video featuring sneering lead singer Mike Scott, his omnipresent cowboy hat and …
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The Flaming Lips get nostalgic for the Mesozoic era on their new song, “Dinosaurs on the Mountain,” set to appear on their upcoming album, American Head, out September 11th via Warner Records. The track is a dreamy folk-rock tune that ebbs and flows on waves of thick psychedelia and to-the-rafters …
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The Grateful Dead have launched an official podcast that will first examine the creation of the band’s 1970 LP Workingman’s Dead. The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast, available on all podcast platforms, is hosted by musician Rich Mahan and rock journalist Jesse Jarnow. Each episode of the first season will focus …
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