Rock

After a long 2020 almost entirely devoid of live music, 2021 brought with it the return of concerts. There were plenty of rules and restrictions in place as artists and venues alike tried to push forward amid the ongoing COVID pandemic. Still, proof of vaccination and crowd-size restrictions were small prices to pay in the
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Steve Jordan, the drummer who filled in for the late Charlie Watts on the Rolling Stones‘ most recent tour, says everyone was convinced he’d be back soon. “You have to understand, the week before Charlie passed, I had gotten information that he was doing better,” Jordan told Rolling Stone. “That week, the rehearsals took on
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Haim have announced a 2022 North American tour in support of their latest album ‘Women In Music Pt. III‘. The ‘One More HAIM Tour’ begins on April 24 in Las Vegas’ Cosmopolitan Hotel before hitting major cities across North America including Chicago, Houston, Miami, Washington DC, Seattle, Toronto, Philadelphia and more. See the full list of
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The University of Florida approved a motion to give Tom Petty an honorary doctorate in music, noting his significant influence in his hometown. While he never attended the institute in Gainesville, he was once employed as a groundskeeper there before finding global success with the Heartbreakers, formed as Mudcrutch in the area in the early
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In late 1985, Echo & The Bunnymen released a singles compilation, Songs To Learn & Sing. The album provided a glorious summary of the band’s fertile early years: anthemic choruses, haunting vocals, big hair. But Songs To Learn & Sing also included one new song, “Bring On The Dancing Horses”, whose shimmering but static synthesiser
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In 2020, with their flow of inspiration from new experiences staunched, some singer-songwriters and musicians found themselves turning to their own archives, finding not only purpose in the reassessment process but potential for new projects, too. Azniv Korkejian was one of them. The former sound editor for film and TV had already released two albums
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BTS continue to break records as their recent ‘Permission To Dance On Stage’ Los Angeles residency has achieved the biggest single venue concert engagement by any act in almost a decade. According to Billboard, the four-night stand at Los Angeles’ So-Fi Stadium – which took place November 27-28 and December 1-2 – sold 214,000 tickets and grossed $33.3million
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All too often a star-crossed collaboration can end up diminishing both parties, but when Robert Plant and Alison Krauss came together for 2007’s multi-award-winning Raising Sand, it had the opposite effect. The record’s rich and subtle readings of deep blues and country cuts allowed Plant to finally slip the rock god shackles, paving the way
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There’s a risk with any collaboration between players who each have a strong profile that it will be nothing more than the sum of those parts. Not so Springtime, which sees guitarist Gareth Liddiard, former helm of The Drones, now Tropical Fuck Storm, teaming up with pianist Chris Abrahams, best known for his work with
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