Coldplay invited Ed Sheeran onstage during their performance at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire last night. Sheeran collaborated with the group on a rendition of “Fix You,” from Coldplay’s album X&Y. The band also accompanied Sheeran as he played his own tracks, “Shape Of You” and recent single “Shivers.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY3o2r_3AJM Coldplay …
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W elcome to Rolling Stone’s 2021 Musicians on Musicians package, the annual franchise where two great artists come together for a free, open conversation about life and music. Each story in this year’s series will appear in our November 2021 print issue, hitting stands on November 2nd — with four …
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C ambel McLaughlin thought he was being punked. An unapologetic opponent of lockdowns and Covid-19 vaccine skeptic — he is, as he puts it, “pro-medical choice”— the 27-year-old Brit is founder of Jam for Freedom, a group of U.K. musicians that plays for free in public spaces, spreading the anti-lockdown …
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The pointed placement of a billboard for Meek Mill’s new album, Expensive Pain, on the facade of the Miami Juvenile Assessment Center — a “processing referral and evaluation center” for arrested youth — was intentional. The billboard has been up for several weeks now, with a reporter from Miami’s WLRN …
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Dave Chappelle waded into the never-ending DaBaby controversy in his new stand-up special, The Closer, wondering why the rapper’s career was supposedly derailed for homophobic remarks instead of fatally shooting a man in 2018. Chappelle — who has garnered criticism of his own for various jokes about queer and trans …
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Drake managed to fend off yet another challenge to his Artists 500 throne, notching a record-extending 35th week atop the chart. Drake pulled in 274.5 million song streams for the week of September 24th through September 30th, the 14th highest weekly stream count the chart has ever seen. His closest …
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The Rolling Stones have dropped their previously unreleased cover of the Chi-Lites’ “Troubles a’ Comin” via Polydor/Interscope/UMe. The song will appear on the 40th-anniversary sets for Tattoo You, which arrive on October 22nd. The band recorded the song in Paris in 1979, and it’s one of nine of the rarities …
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Restarting a tradition that was canceled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Phish will return to New York’s Madison Square Garden this December for their annual New Year’s Eve run of concerts. The jam band announced Wednesday that they’ll return to “the World’s Most Famous Arena” for four shows …
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Kanye West’s life and career is the focus of an upcoming documentary titled Jeen-Yuhs, which Netflix revealed Saturday during its Tudum event. The first clip from the film features archival footage a young West and Mos Def (now Yasiin Bey) delivering an impromptu, a cappella rendition of their College Dropout …
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Jason Isbell bested Trevor Noah in the ultimate test of comedic wit — telling airplane jokes — on The Daily Show Thursday, September 23rd. The bit began with Noah introducing Isbell as a new musical sidekick, there to peel off a few guitar licks to punctuate the host’s punchlines. The …
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