Janet Jackson’s black “bubble” shirt from her and Michael Jackson’s iconic “Scream” video sold for $125,000 at an auction this weekend featuring over 1,000 items from the singer’s personal collection. Janet wore numerous outfits in the “Scream” video — which, upon its release in 1995, was the most expensive music …
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The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) has announced its performance lineup for the 10th annual A2IM Libera Awards, presented by Merlin and streaming exclusively on YouTube. This year’s Icon Award recipient is gospel and soul singer Mavis Staples. Additionally, the 2021 ceremony’s performers include Black Pumas, Arlo Parks, Lecrae, …
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Torres has announced her new album Thirstier, the follow-up to 2020’s Silver Tongue. The singer born Mackenzie Scott also shared the LP’s first single “Don’t Go Puttin Wishes in My Head” ahead of Thirstier’s July 30th release on Merge Records. Recorded at Middle Farm Studios in the U.K. during the …
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Anthony Hamilton finds out he was being two-timed in “You Made a Fool of Me,” a pour-salt-in-the-wound ballad he released on Friday. “You Made a Fool of Me” is set in 6/8 time — a tempo that, for R&B singers, tends to be the setting for ecstasy (try Otis Redding‘s …
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Sharon Van Etten has officially released her cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Some Things Last a Long Time.” As Stereogum notes, Van Etten recorded the cover, plus an original song, for the 2020 documentary, Feels Good Man, about the creator of Pepe the Frog. (It’s unclear if this had any bearing …
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Jessie Ware has announced an expanded edition of her acclaimed 2020 album What’s Your Pleasure? and with it a new summer-ready single titled “Please.” “Ihad such an amazing response to the What’s Your Pleasure? record that I didn’t want the lights to go up and the party to be over …
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Wolfgang Van Halen’s solo project Mammoth WVH has released a new song, “Feel,” from the band’s upcoming self-titled debut, out June 11th via EX1 Records/ Explorer1 Music Group. “Feel” is a breakneck rocker filled with jagged riffs, rumbling bass, and pounding drums, while Van Halen’s vocals take the song into …
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Billie Joe Armstrong recalls the first time he met Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt in an excerpt from his new Audible Original, Billie Joe Armstrong: Welcome to My Panic, out Thursday, April 22nd. Armstrong and Dirnt met in the fifth grade, and Armstrong says music — Ozzy Osbourne in particular …
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Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Noel Gallagher, and other British and U.K.-based musicians have signed an open letter to England’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on him to embrace reforms that would improve streaming revenues for artists, performers, and songwriters. The letter is backed by the Musicians’ Union and the Ivors …
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Bob Weir and the Flying Other Brothers’ Bert Keely joined together for a cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The duo recorded the Lennon classic following the death of Richard Newton, their friend and Dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Electrical Engineering. The delicate rendition features Weir on vocals and guitar …
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