Déjà vu pervades the study on gender in the music business released Tuesday by USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative: The report — which finds that only one-sixth of the top 100 songs last year were made by female artists, with even glaringly lower percentages in the behind-the-scenes of the industry — …
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Pamela Adlon opensed up for the first time in a new interview about her life in the aftermath of sexual misconduct claims against her friend and collaborator, Louis C.K. The Better Things co-creator previously issued a statement saying she was “devastated by and in shock after the admission of abhorrent …
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Foo Fighters played a sold-out pre-Super Bowl concert Saturday night in Atlanta, a gig that was live-streamed over Twitter. The Atlanta Station show featured a number of special guests, including Zac Brown and Tom Morello, who joined the Foo Fighters at the two-hour mark of the video below to perform …
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The Avett Brothers have released their first taste of new music in 2019, the wintry heartbreak ballad “Neapolitan Sky.” This marks the third time in the past several months that the Avetts have debuted fresh music, with “Roses and Sacrifice” dropping last October and the spritely “Trouble Letting Go” following …
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For the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Patrick Doyle sat down with Gary Clark Jr. in our Sirius XM studio for a definitive interview that covers Clark’s entire career. Among many other topics, he discusses his early days in Austin (as a kid, he wanted to …
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Samantha Bee deconstructed the Machiavellian aura Roger Stone has built for himself, comparing the Republican operative and President Donald Trump’s longtime ally, instead, to athletes foot on Full Frontal Wednesday. Last Friday, Stone was indicted as part of the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and …
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Yo Gotti recruited Lil Baby for a playful live version of “Put a Date on It” on Tuesday’s Tonight Show.While the rappers exchanged triplet-filled, heavily-bleeped verses over a sleek trap beat and live scratching, a random guest mimed the song’s central trumpet hook and a group of dancers flaunted shirts …
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On June 23rd, 1974, 21-year-old jazz-fusion guitarist Daryl Stuermer was watching the short-lived talk show Speakeasy when the guests for the evening included Beach Boys singer Mike Love, English guitarist John McLaughlin, jazz flutist Charles Lloyd and Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel. Stuermer had never heard of Genesis and the brief …
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Three days before Christmas, Chris Isaak’s longtime bass player Rowland Salley headed for LAC+USC Medical Center, where former Isaak guitarist James Calvin Wilsey, the man behind the dreamy sound of Isaak’s multimillion-selling hit, “Wicked Game,” was hospitalized. “I’d driven to the L.A. hospitalto see him,” Salley said. “I took my …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Updatehosts Colin Jost and Michael Che opened their segment by mocking the president for ending the shutdown without getting funding for his beloved wall and caving to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “It’s pretty clear that Trump has not figured out how to deal with Nancy Pelosi …
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