Rock

Yacht rock was one of the most commercially successful genres to emerge from the ’70s and yet has managed to evade concise definition since its inception. For many listeners, it boils down to a feeling or mood that cannot be found in other kinds of music: Simply put, you know it when you hear it.
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Jonny Greenwood has revealed in an interview that when he first joined Radiohead he would turn his keyboards off during rehearsal. READ MORE: Jonny Greenwood on writing the soundtrack for new Princess Diana biopic ‘Spencer’ During the conversation with NPR’s Fresh Air Greenwood discussed his rise from legendary guitarist and keyboardist, to award-winning composer. Earlier today (February
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Avril Lavigne has postponed her 2022 UK and European headline tour. The Canadian singer-songwriter was due to hit the road later this month in support of her seventh studio album, ‘Love Sux’, which comes out on February 26 via Travis Barker‘s label DTA Records. READ MORE: Avril Lavigne – ‘Head Above Water’ review Following a string of European
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Micky Dolenz will pay tribute to his late Monkees bandmates and celebrate the group’s legacy with a series of April 2022 tour dates. The seven-date tour begins on April 5 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and concludes on April 16 in Madison, Wis., at the Overture Center for the Arts. Tickets go on sale Friday. You
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One word that might describe Axl Rose is “controversial.” Since finding fame with Guns N’ Roses in the mid-’80s, the frontman has been an icon of excess, drama and personal anguish, much of which was played out in public. As Rose turns 60 on Feb. 6, 2022, UCR looks back at some of the mercurial vocalist’s career milestones. There
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Erin Rae has been quietly making strides around Nashville these past few years. 2015’s self-released Soon Enough – which found her fronting The Meanwhiles – brought her to the attention of John Paul White, who promptly signed her to his own Single Lock label for Rae’s solo debut, Putting On Airs, in 2018. For all
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Eddie Vedder minced no words when discussing how much he “despised” the ’80s glam metal bands that he and his Pearl Jam bandmates nearly put out of business in the early ’90s. The 57-year-old singer — whose third solo album, Earthling, comes out Friday — reflected on his formative years in San Diego and Seattle in a
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The first phase of the Covid crisis brought a rude interruption to normal life for Anaïs Mitchell. She was living in New York, in the ninth month of her pregnancy with her second child. Mitchell’s creative life was dominated, as it had been for some years, by the demands of Hadestown, the juggernaut of a
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As soon as music venues reopened their doors last summer, Black Country, New Road were pretty much the first band back out on tour, playing to audiences seated at tables in socially distanced bubbles. Sure, they had a critically acclaimed debut album to promote – For The First Time was released at the height of
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