A night after teaching Jimmy Fallon how to play hockey, Justin Bieber returned to The Tonight Show Friday — the day of new album Changes‘ release — to perform the single “Intentions” alongside Quavo. The Tonight Show performance mirrored Bieber’s Saturday Night Live musical guest spot from earlier in the …
Read More »'That's When They Were on Fire': Inside the Who's 'Live at Leeds'
It was 50 years ago today that the Who walked into the University of Leeds Refectory in Leeds, England, and played what many rock fans consider to be the greatest concert of all time. At the very least, the album they recorded that night — Live at Leeds — is …
Read More »Why Hank Williams Won't Be Reinstated in the Grand Ole Opry
Ever since earning six encores at his Grand Ole Opry debut in 1949, Hank Williams has been synonymous with the country music institution. But Williams, who died at 29 in 1953, is not technically a member. In fact, he was unceremoniously fired from the Opry in 1952 after missing a …
Read More »Roger Waters: 'The U.S. Is Not a Fool's Paradise, It's a Fool's Hell'
Roger Waters would like to see a new resistance movement sweep America. At a Q&A after a screening of his concert film, Us + Them, in New York on Tuesday night, the artist compared the way he saw younger people take to the themes of humanism in his concert abroad …
Read More »One Man Believes Tupac Is Alive in New Mexico — And Plans to Make a Movie About It
Perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories in music history is that Tupac Shakur is still alive. There’s a stubborn contingent of people who refuse to believe that Shakur died from the four gunshot wounds he sustained on September 7th, 1996, in Las Vegas. Tupac’s bodyguard has shared that he …
Read More »Lido Pimienta's 'Eso Que Tu Haces' Is a Song You Need to Know
Days after Shakira delivered a crash course on Afro-Colombian song and dance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the Toronto-based Barranquilla native Lido Pimienta brings it all back home in her resplendent new video for “Eso Que Tu Haces.” The song is the second single from her upcoming album Miss …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Bryan Ferry, 'Sympathy For the Devil' Live in 1974
In early 1974, Bryan Ferry was on an amazing roll. Roxy Music were at their height, carving out their unique, glammy art-rock space as they made great albums at a yearly clip. (Later in 1974, they’d release one of their finest in Country Life.) At the same time, Ferry was …
Read More »See Vampire Weekend Perform at Bernie Sanders' Iowa Rally
With the Iowa caucuses just days away, Vampire Weekend performed Saturday at a rally in support of Bernie Sanders. The band showed their support for the Democratic hopeful at the US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, delivering a set that featured cover of Thin Lizzy’s 1976 hit “The Boys are …
Read More »M.I.A. Creates Her Own Patreon Account
M.I.A. has launched her own page on the subscription platform Patreon, the artist announced on Friday. “I’m doing a Patreon, because I make so much stuff and record so many things that aren’t music and don’t fit on other platforms,” M.I.A. toldRolling Stone. “I’ve tried all the other platforms and …
Read More »My Chemical Romance Plot First North American Tour in Nine Years
My Chemical Romance will tour North America for the first time in nine years this fall. The reunion run launches September 9th at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit and continues through the next month, wrapping October 11th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. My Chemical Romance announced the tour …
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