Month: July 2024

John Mayall, legendary blues guitarist and founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, died on Monday at the age of 90, Vanity Fair reports. Born in Macclesfield, England in 1933, Mayall taught himself to play the piano, guitars and harmonica as a kid. After graduating from the Manchester College of Art, he maintained a side hustle playing with local
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News Snoop Dogg to Carry Torch for Paris 2024 Olympics The rapper will bear the Olympic flame for its final stretch before the opening cereamony By Matthew Strauss July 23, 2024 Facebook X Snoop Dogg, July 2024 (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for USOPC) Facebook X Snoop Dogg will be an Olympic torchbearer, carrying the flame for
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Founded in Los Angeles in 1971, the original members of Eagles consisted of Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. During the 1970s, they evolved to become one of the most successful bands of their time with five No.1 singles and six No.1 albums, along with numerous Grammy and American Music Awards. Having
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Before Lucky Daye made his debut in 2018 with his Grammy-nominated single “Roll Some Mo,” the singer, born David Brown, spent years working behind the scenes as a songwriter. One of Daye’s major breakthroughs as a songwriter was with Jamie Foxx’s “She Got Her Own,” featuring Ne-Yo and Fabolous, from 2008’s Intuition. Daye wrote Foxx’s
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Trevor Jackson has delivered his new album, It’s Complicated, via his independent label Born Art. The 16-track offering includes all songs from Jackson’s Heads Up and He Don’t Know EPs, plus eight new tracks.  As the title suggests, It’s Complicated is a deep dive into the complexities of modern love and relationships. It completes the three-part story told on Heads Up
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(Editor’s note: In a bid to get more U.S. festival coverage on the site, we’ve got Sean Matthews out and about taking photos and documenting his experience at various shows. This go around, he spent the past weekend at this year’s Inkcarceration. This is day one, complete with photo galleries.) In rural Ohio, Mansfield is
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“Nothing in this world is free,” Jack White declares on the opening track of his surprise-released sixth solo album – branded as “No Name” on the disc and at least for our purposes now. Call it hubris or humor, mischievousness or muso conceit. White’s Third Man Records “released” the 13-track set on July 19 in an
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Even before he formed Third Man Records, Jack White had perfected the art of the guerilla record drop – he once hid a bunch of seven inches inside re-upholstered sofas. But he’ll have to go some way to top the release strategy for his surprise sixth album – his first new music since 2022’s Fear
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News Four Tops Singer Duke Fakir Dies at 88 The last surviving member of the Motown group sang on hits like “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” and “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” By Nina Corcoran July 22, 2024 Facebook X Four Tops’ Adul Kareem “Duke” Fakir, September 1976 (Evening Standard/Getty Images/Hulton Archive)
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