Since the Nineties, Vans Warped Tour has been a constant, integral part of Pierre Bouvier’s life. He played the tour a few times with Reset, and later, with bandmate Chuck Comeau, formed Simple Plan. Warped Tour helped Simple Plan not only find their footing in the early Aughts but has …
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“It’s easy for us all to say, ‘Support the troops,’ and then not talk about the real impact that going to war might have had on them, physically or mentally,” says singer-songwriter Jamie Kent, who addresses the post-traumatic stress disorder that afflicts many returning veterans in his excellent song “Home …
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When Metallica began gathering together everything they had in their vaults to include in a super-deluxe, box-set reissue of their touchstone 1986 LP Master of Puppets, they realized they had a lot more material to work with than on the reissues of their first two albums. “The hardest part of …
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This year’s CMA Awards stand to be among the most emotional in the show’s history. The 51st annual gala will mark the first time that the entire country-music community has gathered together since the October 1st Route 91 Harvest festival tragedy in Las Vegas, and the evening could well serve …
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Christmas may be a time to bring loved ones together, but it also has a long history of inspiring love-hate songs — especially in country music. Bloodshoot Records has seized on this proud tradition with 13 Days of Xmas, a new holiday compilation that includes songs by the Yawpers, Ron …
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Another stretch of Taylor Swift‘s run-up to her sixth album Reputation arrived Friday, when the video for the grinding come-on “…Ready For It?” dropped online. Directed by Swift’s recent filmmaker-of-choice Joseph Kahn, the clip for Reputation‘s opening track features Swift facing off against a cyborg version of herself, with splashy …
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A new compilation will spotlight theRolling Stones‘ many performances for the BBC in the early-to-mid–Sixties. One of the highlights ofthe album, titledOn Air, is a version of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” that the band recorded on September 18th, 1965, for the program Saturday Club – mere months after the …
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Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi, the leader of the Congolese outfit Konono N°1, died Monday after a long, unspecified illness, the band announced on Facebook. He was 56. “Konono No.1’s proud and brave leader Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi has passed away yesterday,” the band said. “He’d been ill for several months. We are …
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Black Sabbath perform the classic song “Paranoid” at their last concert ever in this clip from The End of the End, the concert film that documents the legendary heavy metal act’s February 2017 concerts in Birmingham, England. This sing-along performance of “Paranoid” marked Black Sabbath‘s final song onstage together, and …
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A little over four minutes into Bruce’s Springsteen‘s Broadway show, he stops playing the opening song, “Growin’ Up,” and speaks to the crowd, his voice entirely unamplified. “I have never held an honest job in my entire life,” he says in a near-shout. “I’ve never worked nine to five. I’ve …
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