John Lennon received a star-studded tribute last night during the Olympic Games’ opening ceremony in Tokyo, with John Legend, Keith Urban and several other artists teaming up to perform his classic “Imagine.” The Olympic Games opened in spectacular fashion on Friday after previously being postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. After the masked athletes entered
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“Bought fertiliser and brake fluid/Who in the hell am I supposed to trust?” John Murry’s new album opens with a song about a man building a bomb that somehow introduces Oscar Wilde into a narrative about American unrest. Domestic terrorism, the Oklahoma bombing, gas chambers, low-flying police helicopters, natty Oscar playing bridge. Longstanding fans will
More than 25 years after the death of frontman Bradley Nowell, Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh has revealed that the band was almost immediately told to hire a new singer. During a recent interview with radio host Stryker for the show Out of Order, Gaugh recalled the record label’s response following Nowell’s untimely passing. “They wanted to
Drake has made a guest appearance on a new track by Smiley – listen to ‘Over The Top’ below. READ MORE: Drake – ‘Scary Hours 2’ EP review: title defender sounds ready to challenge himself again Smiley, who is a rapper from Drake’s home city of Toronto, has been an “inspiration” for Drake in the past,
Norwegian Rock Star Toggo Ultrarock has just released his highly anticipated new single “Creepy Wonderwall” worldwide. Creepy Wonderwall is a slow, dreamy, dark, symphonic rock version of the original song by Oasis. Think lead vocals that make Liam Gallagher’s original performance sound like a Christmas caroler on Sesame Street, with a wall of background vocals,
When it comes to painting a picture of your band, the broadest strokes come in the form of albums and you can nitpick and get down to the finer, nittier and grittier aspects of how you represent yourself by the singles you choose. The albums used to generally give audiences a fairly basic understanding of
Brainchild of the rising Latin band Juliana, John Stewart and his writing partner and bandmate Madeleine Kaye have just released their highly anticipated new single “Petty Boys” which is now available worldwide through SohoJohnny’s Tribeca Records. John Stewart, who has been in the entertainment business since the early ‘80’s, was a professional stuntman, a director
Lindsey Buckingham previewed his upcoming solo LP with “On the Wrong Side,” a new song that purposely balances sprightly music and downcast lyrics. “We were young, now we’re old / Who can tell me which is worse?” the guitarist sings on the track, built on a jangly acoustic strum, stacked vocal harmonies and bright drum
James Blake has announced the release of a new album called ‘Friends That Break Your Heart’ – listen to lead single, ‘Say What You Will’, below. The upcoming album, which is set to arrive on September 10, is the singer, songwriter and producer’s first since 2019’s ‘Assume Form’, and follows on from the two EPs
Don Brewer, founding drummer and singer from Grand Funk Railroad, didn’t just work in the studio with Todd Rundgren and Frank Zappa in the ’70s. They actually lived together, as Grand Funk completed a series of studio projects between 1973-76. He discusses their signature collaborations, and the possibility of a new album from the group, in
For the latest episode of Bruce Springsteen‘s SiriusXM show From My Home to Yours, the Boss curated a playlist of frat rock classics. As Springsteen fan site Backstreets notes, Springsteen introduces the songs by saying, “I just want you to drink beer and go apeshit listening to this music.” Among the bands featured were the Swingin’
How close did Van Halen come to completing a new studio album with David Lee Roth in 2000? Depends on whom and when you ask. Roth and longtime Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony have both gone on record about the recording sessions, which took place 15 years after the singer’s initial departure from the band
Kanye West is gearing up to release a new Abstract Mindstate album via his newly launched YZY SND imprint. News about the Chicago duo’s new LP arrives following an announcement earlier today (July 21) that West will be releasing his long-awaited ‘Donda’ album on Friday (July 23), after previewing a snippet of new track ‘No
Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach is hitting the road this fall to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band’s chart-topping sophomore album, Slave to the Grind. The megawatt singer kicks off the Slave to the Grind trek on Sept. 25 in Waterloo, N.Y., and will be on the road through Dec. 17 in San Diego, with support from Detroit rockers Kaleido. Tickets
Remi Wolf has unveiled her new song, ‘Liquor Store’. The song is the first glimpse of Wolf’s upcoming album, which will be out later this year. The as-yet-untitled album will be the California artist’s full-length debut. It also follows the remix EP ‘We Love Dogs!’, which arrived earlier this year. In the funky pop number,
Music fans typically survey rock history linearly or chronologically: First, there was Elvis, then the Beatles, then the Summer of Love … and so on. But that’s not really how life works. When artists are creating, they’re usually looking at and reacting to what’s happening around them now, not necessarily what happened before them. With that in mind, our below
Connie Constance has shared a new track called ‘Prim & Propa’ – you can listen to it below. The song will appear on the Watford singer-songwriter’s new EP of the same name, which is due for release on September 2. It follows last year’s EP ‘The Butterfly Club’ and the artist’s 2019 debut album, ‘English
Kansas has always enjoyed plenty of musical weapons during its 48-year history. Among those, Robby Steinhardt was a quadruple threat — a songwriter and frontman whose violin helped define and differentiate the troupe’s particular prog rock sound and whose hearty vocal holler provided a rough-hewn counterpart to Steve Walsh’s keening tenor. In other words, Steinhardt
The Foo Fighters‘ disco side project, the Dee Gees, have shared their debut album ‘Hail Satin’ to streaming platforms. Previewed back in February with the band’s take on the Bee Gees’ ‘You Should Be Dancing’, the album originally arrived as part of a Record Store Day drop on July 17, and was recorded at the
Last year’s 30th-anniversary expansion of the Black Crowes‘ debut album bottles some of the lightning from their initial year of touring in support of Shake Your Money Maker. Disc 3 focuses on homecoming concerts held at the Center Stage in Atlanta in December 1990, where the Black Crowes had plenty to celebrate – including singer Chris Robinson’s 24th