Tim Burgess is on Twitter a lot, even when there’s not a global pandemic that’s keeping him and everyone else indoors. The lead vocalist of British alt band the Charlatans spends an inordinate amount of time on the social platform, tweeting dozens of times a day on just about everything …
Read More »Producers Tainy and Luny to Stage Historic Beat Battle on Instagram
Update: the full beat battle is now available to watch on YouTube. Over the course of the last month, stars have come up with all kinds of enterprising ways to keep their fans engaged during the rise of the government-mandated quarantine. So when Swizz BeatzandTimbaland faced off by comparing their …
Read More »The Coronavirus Crisis in the Psychiatric Ward
Hollie, 25, is disabled and struggles with mental illness; over the past few years, she estimates, she’s been hospitalized nearly 40 times. Last week was one of those times. When Hollie presented at the ER, she says, she was struggling with thoughts of taking her own life, in large part …
Read More »See Neil Young's Third 'Fireside Sessions' Acoustic Concert
Neil Young has posted the third concert from his ongoing Fireside Sessions series. Like the two others, it’s a 30-minute acoustic show directed by Daryl Hannah at the home they share in Colorado. Watch it at the Neil Young Archives. Keeping with tradition, the set eschews obvious hits in favor …
Read More »Liam Gallagher Plots Special Concert for British Healthcare Workers Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Liam Gallagher will play a free concert in London later this fall for National Health Service workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. The show is currently scheduled for October 29th at the O2 in London. Gallagher will headline, while a poster promises additional “special guests.” Per the O2’s …
Read More »Watch Eric Church Sing John Prine's 'Long Monday'
“We lost one of my all-time favorites…a man that taught me how to write songs,” Eric Church says in a new video tribute to John Prine, who died Tuesday at 73 from complications related to COVID-19. With that brief introduction, he plays a minute-and-a-half or so of Prine’s song “Long …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Ends Presidential Run as Joe Biden Clinches 2020 Democratic Nomination
Sen. Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign for president, conceding the 2020 Democratic nomination to former Vice President Joe Biden. Sanders announced his decision Wednesday in a livestream address to supporters saying his grassroots-supported run —conducted under the banner of “Not me, us” —had changed the country for the better, …
Read More »Social Distancing With Ashley McBryde: Chocolate Milk and 'Tiger King'
Ashley McBryde is one of those artists in the odd predicament of having a new album arrive in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Never Will, the Arkansas native’s second release for Warner Bros. Nashville, came out April 3rd, and she’s been busily promoting it with interviews and an ongoing …
Read More »Lin-Manuel Miranda, 'Hamilton' Cast Reunite on John Krasinski's YouTube Show
On the second episode of John Krasinski’s quarantine talk show,Some Good News, the actor and host surprised 9-year-oldHamilton fan Aubrey with a surprise Zoom call from the cast of the hit musical. Krasinski first promised Aubrey that, once concerns over coronavirus had settled down, he would fly her and her …
Read More »Judge Dismisses Universal Music Group Vault Fire Lawsuit
Universal Music Group has emerged victorious in a legal dispute over alleged damages sustained in a 2008 vault fire, with a judge dismissing a class action suit originally brought last year by several artists and estates including Soundgarden, the Tupac Shakur estate, Steve Earle and Hole. The decision, filed Monday …
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