Lil Nas X embodied the pharaohs for his performance of “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” at the 2021 BET Awards. Inspired by the video for Michael Jackson’s “Remember the Time,” the singer/rapper and his dancers donned outfits reminiscent of ancient Egyptian royalty. While not quite as extravagant as Lil …
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Mark Ronson has released a completely reimagined version of Foo Fighters’ Medicine at Midnight track, “Making a Fire.” For the so-called “Re-Version,” Ronson stripped away Foo Fighters’ big guitars and instead crafted a groove that feels more like Let It Bleed-era Stones crossed with Primal Scream’s Screamedelica. Ronson also enlisted …
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Dave Navarro, a guy who’s spent years shredding guitar with Jane’s Addiction and served as a judge on a tattoo reality competition, has probably one of the most wholesome hobbies a rock star could have: collecting cuckoo clocks. He began purchasing the timepieces in the Nineties, and on a recent …
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Korn bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu will not be playing on the band’s upcoming tour, the 51-year-old musician announced Monday in a Facebook post. In his statement, Arvizu wrote that he has been struggling with personal issues over the past year and that he is taking an indefinite hiatus from Korn …
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Coldplay appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase the acoustic rendition of their recent single “Higher Power.” Accompanied by a group of backup singers, including host Jimmy Fallon at one point, Chris Martin and crew gave the song a pared-down, intimate take. The performance follows this week’s release of the …
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The Dee Gees — a.k.a. the Foo Fighters’ Bee Gees tribute band — have announced Hail Satin, a Record Store Day exclusive vinyl out July 17th. The 10-track LP features the band’s take on five Brothers Gibb classics — Bee Gees’ “You Should Be Dancing,” Night Fever,” “Tragedy,” and “More …
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Jay-Z has filed a lawsuit against hip-hop photographer Jonathan Mannion, accusing him of selling photos of Jay-Z and subsequently profiting off his likeness without the rapper’s permission. Jay-Z (whose real name is Shawn Carter) hired Mannion as a photographer in the mid-Nineties, and Mannion snapped “hundreds of photographs” of the …
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Dropkick Murphys and Rancid will embark on their second co-headlining tour later this summer. The two rock outfits previously hit the road together in 2017. The Boston to Berkeley II trek was originally scheduled for last May but was postponed because of the pandemic. The run is now set to …
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Nothing feels more perfect than Kylie Minogue covering Lady Gaga. The singer has dropped her own dance-fueled, synth-laden take on “Marry the Night,” off the upcoming Born This Way Reimagined. The cover is pretty true to the original version, although, of course, Minogue does her own thing on the vocals. …
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Bob Dylan played over 3,000 shows on the Never Ending Tour and it’s gone through countless iterations since beginning in 1988, but when Rolling Stone asked author and longtime scholar Clinton Heylin to name his favorite period, he instantly went with 1995. “That year was amazing, absolutely amazing,” he said. …
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