Feist has announced an upcoming live residency that will take place this summer in Europe. Designed by the singer and designer Rob Sinclair, who worked on David Byrne’s stunning American Utopia live shows, Feist’s Multitudes residency looks to break down the walls between audience and performer, bringing them together after …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. Ali Tamposi has co-written some of the biggest pop hits in recent memory, from Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello’s “Senorita” to …
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In 1979, when Edgar Wright was five years old, he turned on Top of the Pops to find a boyish-looking singer bopping manically in place. A keyboardist next to him stood stock still, sporting floppy bangs and a Hitler-esque mustache, looking alternately bored and angry. The music sounded like a …
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UPDATE: A Kurt Cobain self-portrait, Prince’s 1994 Cloud guitar and Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time” bodysuit all sold for impressive prices at the recent Music Icons sale at Julien’s Auctions. The Cobain self-portrait caricature, which he drew during NIrvana’s 1992 Nevermind tour, fetched $281,250, which was 28-times its …
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Jeff Tweedy and his son Spencer delivered an acoustic rendition of Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen’s new single “Like I Used To” during the latest episode of their “Tweedy Show” Instagram livestream. The performance begins at the 2:34-mark of the video below: With the elder Tweedy on guitar and …
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SZA and SAINt JHN have teamed up for a new track, “Just For Me,” off the upcoming soundtrack for Space Jam: A New Legacy.The smooth-talking love song follows the soundtrack’s first single “We Win” from Kirk Franklin and Lil Baby. The soundtrack to the film, which stars LeBron James, will …
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If the world goes to shit, Lukas Nelson wants to make sure he has a way to listen to his record collection. The country-rock scion is so invested in the physical product that he and his band Promise of the Real were adamant about recording their new album with producer …
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Sleater-Kinney have released a new song, “Method,” from their upcoming album, Path of Wellness, out this Friday, June 11th via Mom + Pop. The track has a kind of mellow feel as the guitars and bass twist around each other under a steady drum shuffle, but the song occasionally swells …
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Farewell tours are so 2020. After the pandemic derailed Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour, the venerable Southern rock band are resuming and rebranding their trek: The Big Wheels Keep on Turnin’ Tour kicks off June 13th and includes 30 dates into November. The group’s core members …
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Morrissey, Blondie, Bauhaus and Devo are among the artists that will perform at Pasadena, California’s rescheduled Cruel World Festival, now set for May 14th, 2022 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl. (Organizers announced a second show set for May 15th due to popular demand, with tickets on sale June 30th …
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