Moon River Music Festival will make its return to Chattanooga, Tennessee, on September 12th and 13th with a diverse lineup that spans rock, folk, bluegrass, and gospel. Sheryl Crow and Nickel Creek will headline the two-day event, which will be held once again at Coolidge Park. Drew Holcomb and the …
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Slipknot performed a six-song set for BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show at Maida Vale Studios in London, with videos of two tracks now available online. The set, recorded last month for air on February 9th, included “Unsainted,” “Psychosocial,” “The Devil in I,” “Duality,” “Disasterpiece” and “Wait And Bleed.” “Welcome to …
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Carly Rae Jepsen has kicked off 2020 with break-up post-mortem “Let’s Be Friends.” She released her fourth album, Dedicated, in May. “Let’s be friends/Then never speak again,” she sassily declares with her brush-off lyrics over a strutting guitar melody. “It’s cool, we can just …
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One of the biggest revolutions at the 2020 Grammys occurred outside of the televised primetime ceremony: The 19-year-old singer Koffee won Best Reggae Album, making her the first woman to take home an award that has existed since 1985, and the youngest reggae trophy recipient in history. On Friday, RCA …
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Sam Hunt has announced plans to release his long-awaited second album in 2020, nearly five years after issuing his groundbreaking debut Montevallo in October 2014. Titled Southside, the new project will be available April 3rd via MCA Nashville. No track listing is available as of yet for Southside, but the …
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Marc Cohn promotes gun reform in his moving “Work to Do” video, the title track from his new collaborative album with the gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama. Directed by his daughter Emily, the clip features several people writing inspirational messages on Post-its as the folk artist sings with …
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Dave Mustaine said he is “100 percent” cancer-free during Megadeth‘s concert at the SSE Arena in London Friday, January 31st. About halfway through the band’s set, Mustaine told the crowd about his throat cancer diagnosis last year, which he was given right as Megadeth was recording their new album. “At …
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Michael Stipe went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night to discuss his new book, Our Interference Times: A Visual Record. Stipe talked about the inspiration behind the book (the merging of analog and digital technology) as well as about one of his earliest heroes: Quasimodo, the hunchback of …
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Americana trio the Lone Bellow tackle a complicated and difficult issue with a gritty performance that harnesses myriad emotions in “Just Enough to Get By,” a simmering, explosive new track from the forthcoming album, Half Moon Light. Written and sung by the group’s Kanene Donehey Pipkin, the tune’s subdued anger, …
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Def Leppard have compiled a thorough accounting of their earliest days — when they burst out of their native Sheffield, England, as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal — for a new box set. The Early Years 79-81 collects remastered versions of their first two LPs, On …
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