Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Paula Court "The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller" is a traveling live documentary, accompanied by the narration of filmmaker Sam Green and Hoboken rockers Yo La Tengo . Live documentary, you ask? Well, don't fret. We can explain exactly what that is. You see, the documentary format is pretty easy to transfer to a live setting. In this case, Green has essentially assembled [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , RPM , New Music , New Releases Paolo Poletta Though he continues to tour extensively, in the four year period since since his 2009 release, When a Banana Was Just a Banana , and now, techno legend Josh Wink has been quietly at work on two huge developments in his life; his new studio, and his baby son. Not one to let fatherhood soften him, [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Movies , New Music , New Releases Thermals Facebook Before they began making their new album, Portland's the Thermals took a long look at themselves. Celebrating 10 years as a band, founding members Hutch Harris and Kathy Foster recognized a power in their earliest work that they wanted to revisit for the mighty exploration of violence and war that is sixth studio LP, Desperate Ground . [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Holy Hell Getty | AFP They've worn giant light bulbs on their heads at Woodstock and sometimes only socks on their penises, but hopefully the Red Hot Chili Peppers will wear something next month for their audience in Oregon -- the Dalai Lama, who'll be there as part of the Dalai Lama Environmental Summit . According to the summit's site the [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards , Q + A ASCAP Recently, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced that they will be honoring Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith with the prestigious ASCAP Founders Award during its 30th annual Pop Music Awards on April 17 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles. With this [...]
Filed under: News NEW YORK (AP) - Paul McCartney is adding his voice to Tony Bennett 's campaign against gun violence. The former Beatle recorded a voice message that's part of a text-to-call operation Wednesday for Bennett's Voices Against Violence campaign. McCartney and others are encouraging Americans to send a text, which will lead to the singer's message and connect the caller to their local senate office after proving their zip code.
Filed under: News , RPM , News Today, Oh Boy! , New Music , New Releases For their latest marketing stunt, Daft Punk have revealed the tracklist for their new album via a Vine video posted by their labe l. Random Access Memories Tracklist 1. "Give Life Back to Music" 2. "The Game [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive Lucky Tran About six hours after the bombs went off at the end of the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding over 180 others, a handful of pictures lit up the Internet, carrying a message of peace and community in response to the tragedy. Taken at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the images showed a series of projections on the building's side. One came from a Martin Luther King quote, [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Movies , Music Appreciation Toward the end of "In Your Dreams," Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart 's documentary about the making of their album of the same name which opened at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox last night, Stewart muses about the magic that he experienced in that year of writing and recording with the rock 'n' roll legend and his hopes that a piece [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , RPM Larry Hirshowitz James Blake followed his packed-out, bass-heavy set at Coachella Sunday with an intimate performance at Bob Clearmountain's Berkeley Street Studio in Santa Monica last night (April 15). There were perhaps one hundred people standing quietly in the studio as the 24-year-old British singer/producer took the stage, unassuming in his grey sweater, bashful and lanky, much like [...]
Filed under: News , Video Jason Merritt, Getty A Coldplay concert tends to quickly turn into an audience singalong, essentially crowdsourcing the crooning to create an inspirational, moving moment. The Brit band is now taking that notion to another level with their latest project, a collaboration with Oxfam that pairs an exclusive acoustic version of the group's classic "In My Place" with footage and photos sent in from around the world to raise awareness [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Lindsey Best for AOL I had a great time at Coachella this year, but I think it may be my last. I saw Blur , Nick Cave , Tame Impala , James Blake , Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Richie Hawtin play jaw-dropping sets. I caught a surprise appearance by R. Kelly instead of Daft [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Video , Exclusive Alex John Beck Vampire Weekend and Steve Buscemi have teamed up for the latest American Express Unstaged concert in which the actor will direct a live stream of the quartet's upcoming New York City gig. Taking place from Roseland Ballroom on Sunday, April 28, the show will close out the Tribeca Film Festival at 9PM ET. Of course, [...]
Filed under: News , Music Appreciation Dennis Morris The Stone Roses only released two studio albums during their initial run in the late '80s and early '90s, but that hasn't stopped the Manchester band from gaining mythical status in England. The Stone Roses: War and Peace is a new biography on the Brits by author Simon Spence based on 400 hours of interviews with over 70 of the group's closest [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Lindsey Best for AOL Well, it's over. The first weekend of Coachella has come and gone, and photographer Lindsey Best was there to capture it all. In the gallery below, check out pictures of headliners the Red Hot Chili Peppers , as well as Nick Cave , Father John Misty , OMD , Jessie Ware , Grimes , Jeff [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Music Appreciation Universal Spinner Canada has been pro- Of Monsters and Men ever since the Icelandic six-piece landed in North America last spring on a quest to buy some kindly stranger a beer. From there we've carefully traced their befuddlement at becoming big-time MTV Video Awards-level artists, and been charmed by their belief in the [...]
Filed under: News YouTube JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of "Old Time Rock and Roll" and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68. Jackson died Sunday morning at his home in Ridgeland, a suburb of Jackson, said Thomas Couch Sr., board chairman of Malaco Records. Jackson had been sick with cancer for about a year. "It was not [...]
Filed under: News Lindsey Best We're back with more photos from Day Two of Coachella . Check out the gallery below to see exclusive pics of Bat For Lashes, Grizzly Bear , Major Lazer With Diplo , Phoenix , Puscifer , Savages, Sigur Ros , Spiritualized , the Evens, the Make-Up, the Postal Service and the XX , and make sure to go through photos [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive Lindsey Best People get nostalgic over Coachella . They get to road trip, smoke, rave, drink Jagermeister in a tent in the middle of the day, glow in the dark, dress like no one's looking, watch a bunch of dads play guitars, and say things like "Who the fuck are the Stone Roses?" It may also be their first music festival, and the first time they've [...]
Filed under: News Lindsey Best The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off yesterday (April 13) and we have a gallery full of exclusive pictures from some of the day's biggest performances. See photos of Blur , Divine Fits , How To Destroy Angels , Jake Bugg , Johnny Marr , Modest Mouse , Shouting Matches, Stars , the Stone Roses and [...]
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