On Madonna’s 63rd birthday Monday, the singer has announced a new partnership with Warner Music Group that will see her entire catalog reissued over the next few years. The campaign begins in 2022, which marks the 40th anniversary of a recording career that began with Madonna’s 1982 single “Everybody.” Madonna …
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Rap-rock anti-heroes Limp Bizkit are an unlikely hot topic this summer, thanks to a new Woodstock ’99 documentary on HBO, a prominent performance at this year’s Lollapalooza festival, and a general impulse by a new generation of critics to reassess their legacy. (They also just canceled a tour over Covid …
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UPDATE 2 (8/11):In response to Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion’s claim that they didn’t have time to institute a vaccine requirement, as Jason Isbell requested, Isbell’s rep says: “Our agent contacted Live Nation in Houston on July 31st with our new protocols.” *** UPDATE (8/11): Jason Isbell was scheduled to perform …
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The federal racketeering case again singer R. Kelly commenced in a Brooklyn courthouse on Monday, as Judge Ann Donnelly quizzed more than three dozen potential jurors about their ability to remain impartial and committed during a trial which is scheduled to start August 18th and is estimated to last at …
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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have released a studio video for their version of the classic Cole Porter standard, “I Get a Kick Out of You.” The song is one of several covers of the Broadway composer that will be appearing on Love for Sale, an entire collection of Porter …
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Billie Eilish swung by BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge to perform a four-song set, including three tracks from her new albumHappier Than Ever and a cover of pop standard “I’m in the Mood for Love.” Eilish’s cover pulls mainly from the 1955 Julie London version, with the singer’s jazzy vocals …
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Ariana Grande is set to enter the realm of the popular video game Fortnite with an upcoming event called “Rift Tour.” The singer shared a promo for the mysterious “musical experience,” which will also allow gamers to use Grande as a playable character. https://thisforall.net/ArianaGrande/status/1421893658689814531 “From August 6-8, take a musical …
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The tragic news of Dusty Hill’s death is still reverberating around the rock community. “What an icon,” Paul Stanley wrote on Twitter. “Always a gentleman from the days of us opening for them through the recent days of them opening for us. I don’t know what to say but ‘Thank …
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Béla Fleck, the banjo visionary in groups like New Grass Revival and his own Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, will release his first bluegrass album in more than two decades. My Bluegrass Heart finds Fleck collaborating with a host of fellow pickers, including Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, and David Grisman. …
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Dry Cleaning‘s full-length debut,New Long Leg, is one of the year’s most bracingly strange listens — the kind of record that makes you wonder where the hell it came from and how soon you’ll be able to hear more. The U.K. band has answered the second part of that question …
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