Jethro Tull will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a massive three-disc compilation, 50 for 50, out May 25th via Parlophone. Jethro Tull‘s founder, singer and flautist, Ian Anderson, hand-picked the 50-song track list from the band’s 21 studio albums. The three-disc set is loosely arranged in chronological order to capture …
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When Chris Janson made his Grand Ole Opry debut on February 15th, 2013, dressed in a black leather jacket and baseball cap – which he promptly removed out of reverence for the stage – he was struggling to push his should-have-been-a-hit “Better I Don’t” up the charts and nearing the …
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Music revenue rose 16.5 percent to $8.7 billion in the U.S. in 2017, and the majority of the increase is due to music streaming services. According to an annual report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), via Wall Street Journal, it’s the second consecutive year of significant growth …
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Art-R&B duo Lion Babe roam around Taconic Sculpture Park in the new“Honey Dew” video, admiring and posing among the mythological sculptures by Roy Kanwit. Singer Jillian Hervey periodically dances and twirls an umbrella, while producer Lucas Goodman looks on stoically at the broad landscape. In a statement, the duo said …
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Boy George announced a lengthy U.S. summer tour with Culture Club, the B-52s and Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins on Tuesday. The tour opens June 29th in St. Augustine, Florida and encompasses more than 40 dates before ending over three months later in Fresno, CA on October 5th. In …
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Days after Eminem added an NRA-slamming verse to “Nowhere Fast” during his performance at the iHeartRadio Awards, the rapper has unleashed the studio version of the extended Revival track. “Sandy Hook, Stoneman Douglas, another lone wolf gunman / Sometimes I don’t know what this world has come to / It’s …
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Courtney Barnett drifts though the cosmos in the new clip for “Need a Little Time.” The track will appear on her upcoming Tell Me How You Really Feel album, due out May 18th. “Need a Little Time” alternates between tranquil, strummed verses and thrashing, distorted hooks. In the video, Barnett …
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Roger Watersrecorded verses by Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish intended as a rebuke to President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel with the intention of moving the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv.“After the relics are gone/ Where, oh white master, are you taking my people …
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John Prine opened his four-song set for NPR’s Music’s Tiny Desk Concert with the ominous “Caravan of Fools,” a tune from his upcoming LPThe Tree of Forgiveness. Backed by a three-piece band, Prine wryly noted of the tune co-written with Pat McLaughlin and the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, that “any …
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Richmond, Virginia singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus has said her second LP is concerned with staking her artistic platform to activist action. For the most part, though, the confrontations she maps out are more interior than openly polemic. Historian opens with “Night Shift,” where she sings about shaking loose a romantic obsession, …
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