Madness performed their 1982 hit “Our House” from London’s Palladium on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday. The performance was in support of the influential ska band’s recent U.S.-only greatest hits collection Our House: The Very Best of Madness, which collects a dozen songs from the band’s five-decade career, from their debut …
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LL Cool J has been on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot six since times since 2010. Some fans were starting to fear he’d never get in, especially after latter-day hip-hop acts like Tupac Shakur, N.W.A, and the Notorious B.I.G. started getting in before him. But he’s finally …
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Drake once again returned to the top of the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart. The rapper notched his 24th non-consecutive week at Number One by pulling in 130.3 million song streams for the week of April 30th though May 6th. In the scheme of all things Drake, that total is …
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Donovan has shared a new video for his 2010 song, “I Am the Shaman,” directed by David Lynch. The clip arrives on the folk musician’s 75th birthday, May 10th. “I Am the Shaman” first appeared on Donovan’s 2010 album, Ritual Groove, and Lynch actually co-produced the track at his studio …
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Pearl Jam are offering fans an immersive plunge into the band’s live archives with their newly announced Deep, a digital collection of nearly 200 Pearl Jam concerts spanning from 2000 to 2013. The just-launched Deep hub on Pearl Jam’s official site allows visitors to access 186 bootlegs and 5,404 tracks …
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AC/DC fans hoping to see the group back on tour sometime soon were given an encouraging sign on May 2nd when Brian Johnson came out midway through the Foo Fighters‘ set to rip through “Back in Black” at Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World, which was held at …
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Jorja Smith announced a new project, Be Right Back, out May 14th. The singer previewed the eight-track set with “Gone,” an electro-soul single built on a watery piano loop and glitchy drums. In the video edited by Smith and Ivor Alice and shot by Erin Corrian-Alexis, the singer takes a …
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Julian Casablancas has released a new interview with famed philosopher, linguist, and social critic Noam Chomsky on the latest episode of his Rolling Stone interview series, S.O.S. — Earth Is a Mess. The interview finds the 92-year-old Chomsky chatting virtually with the Strokes and the Voidz frontman, appearing in the …
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DJ/producer J. Period has released a new animated trailer for his upcoming debut album, Story to Tell (Chapter One), set to arrive April 30th. The clip features audio from the previously released song, “All in Your Head,” which features Dave Chappelle, Black Thought, and Tiffany Gouché. Made by Stellar Hawk …
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Bartees Strange has dropped a cover of Bon Iver‘s “Skinny Love,” recorded for SiriusXMU Sessions. Recorded in his basement on vocals and electric guitar, the sparse cover stays pretty true to the original, with Strange’s vocals lending a new level of emotion to the track. “Justin Vernon lowkey shook my …
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