Rock

The B-52’s singer and co-founder Cindy Wilson will release her second solo album, Realms, on Aug. 25, just one week before the band plays its final scheduled shows. Wilson is previewing Realms with the dance floor-ready single “Midnight.” You can hear the song and see the full album track listing below. Realms arrives six years after Wilson’s full-length solo debut, Changes, which
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It seems redundant to say this about grown men who got famous by dressing up like cats, demons and spacemen, but Kiss has made some pretty weird songs. To be clear, weird doesn’t always mean bad. However, the famously face-painted band’s never-ending quest for world domination has led them to wander far from their musical
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Rush‘s first side-long epic was 1975’s “The Fountain of Lamneth,” a 20-minute fantasy-adventure piece with a rambling narrative, choppy musical structure and randomly inserted drum solo. It was undoubtedly a bold move at the time — before Caress of Steel, Canada’s prog kings had largely trafficked in virtuoso hard rock. But in retrospect, it was
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Garth Brooks recently revealed that he once shared a shower with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. Speaking on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the country singer-songwriter recalled the time he and Tyler both played the very last concert at Shea Stadium in New York City in 2008, spearheaded by Billy Joel. (Other guests included John Mayer, Roger Daltrey, John
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Sometimes it seems nearly impossible to keep a band together. Like any relationship that puts people in close proximity for extended amounts of time, members of rock bands must deal with egos, stubbornness and the occasional general incompetence. It’s no surprise that drama within bands like Kiss and Motley Crue has provided a steady stream of headlines for years now.
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We’ve come to expect protest music to be straightforward, a case of goodies against baddies. In geopolitical terms, protest music means the colonialised against the colonialists, the Global South against the Global North. But the long history of the Tuareg rock band Tinariwen is an object lesson in how messy and complicated rebellion can be.
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Colin Dieden writes about a plethora of little hurts scarring the songs on his new Alt.Pop solo project album, Lovely Hours. The sanguine disappointments of everyday life, the internalized pressures of wrestling with identity, and cure-alls for emotional maladies that ultimately prove transient and superficial. The songs he’s written for Lovely Hours lay his little hurts bare. He never flinches
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