UPDATE: Due to the coronavirus epidemic, R. Kelly‘s Brooklyn trial has been postponed from July 7th to September 27th, Reuters reports. The singer, who has asked to be released from behind bars in Chicago amid COVID-19 concerns in prisons, will also face federal charges in Chicago in October. Four months …
Read More »'Dance Monkey' Singer Tones and I Parses Fame in 'Can't Be Happy All the Time'
Fresh off the success of her hit single “Dance Monkey,” Australian artist Tones and I released two new songs on Thursday. “Bad Child” and “Can’t Be Happy All the Time” mark her first releases since 2019’s The Kids Are Coming EP. “I’ve always wanted to write a song in someone …
Read More »Peter Jackson's Beatles Documentary Gets a Release Date
Peter Jackson‘s eagerly awaited The Beatles: Get Back, a new documentary on the band during its final year, will be released in theaters by Disney on September 4. Culled from 55 hours of footage shot in early 1969, as the Beatles were recording what would become Let It Be, the …
Read More »Bob Dylan Announces Summer Tour With Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
Bob Dylan has rolled out dates for a U.S. summer tour of arenas and amphitheaters where he’ll be joined by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats and the Western swing trio the Hot Club of Cowtown. It kicks off June 4th in Bend, Oregon, at the Les Schwab Amphitheatre and …
Read More »Country Radio Might Finally Be Ready to Forgive the Dixie Chicks
The Dixie Chicks have been unwelcome on country radio for 17 years. It defies common sense that programmers would turn their back on a million-selling, arena-filling, Grammy-winning group, but that was exactly what happened after the band told a London crowd they were against President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq …
Read More »Third Eye Blind Documentary to Premiere at 2020 Tribeca Film Festival
A documentary short film about Third Eye Blind will premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, screening in New York City on April 17th. Titled Motorcycle Drive By, the film will focus on the band’s song by the same name. Released on their 1997 self-titled debut — which included the …
Read More »Flashback: Genesis Play 'The Carpet Crawlers' on Their 2007 Reunion Tour
The Phil Collins–led incarnation of Genesis announced a reunion tour this morning. So far it’s just 10 arena dates in the United Kingdom and Ireland, but that’s almost certainly merely the first leg. The band hasn’t toured in any capacity since 2007 and can easily fill stadiums and arenas all …
Read More »That Time Kathleen Hanna Wrote a Song About Hillary Clinton
Before reuniting Bikini Kill in 2019, Kathleen Hanna pulled together members of her other band, Le Tigre, to throw their support behind Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. “I’m with her/To the top/She’s with us /We won’t stop,” Hanna sang, decked out in a red pantsuit. In case you …
Read More »Watch Bob Weir Cover Another Bob on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert
Bob Weir and Wolf Bros performed a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR, covering Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead. Weir and Wolf Bros — drummer Jay Lane and bassist Don Was — kicked off with “Only a River,” a solo track Weir released on 2016’s Blue Mountain. Then they launched …
Read More »100 Gecs Plot North American Tour
100 Gecs will embark on a headlining world tour this year, with a North American leg scheduled to launch in the spring. The band’s first show is scheduled for March 20th at Buku in New Orleans, but the tour will really get underway after sets at Coachella, April 11th and …
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