Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed a pair of Letter to You songs live together for the first time as musical guest on the latest Saturday Night Live. Springsteen and company opened their SNL appearance with a rousing, enthusiastic rendition of “Ghosts”; earlier in the week, Springsteen told …
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Ahead of the E Street Band’s return to Saturday Night Live this weekend, Bruce Springsteen visited the Tonight Show Thursday to talk about Letter to You, the song that changed his life, his teenaged gigs, and why he’s never made a Christmas album. “I always liked music where the singer …
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Ariana Grande has released the trailer for her concert film, Excuse Me, I Love You, set to arrive on Netflix December 21st. Although clocking in at just a minute, the clip offers a solid overview of what to expect from the film — a mix of exuberant live performance footage …
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Joe Walsh doesn’t cook much in quarantine — “You don’t want me to go there!” he cracks — but the rocker has kept busy as a ham radio operator. “That’s obsolete,” he admits. “We’re dinosaurs because of the internet. That’s pretty fun, because I’m not a rock star, I’m just …
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Atlanta-born, Lagos-raised Davido has been a star in his native Nigeria for years now, churning out slinky Afrobeats tunes for the better part of a decade, but it’s taken a while for Stateside listeners to take notice. Now, the 28-year-old is making serious streaming gains in the U.S., topping Rolling …
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Netflix has unveiled the trailer for the second season of Song Exploder, the music documentary series based on the popular podcast by Hrishikesh Hirway. The newest batch of four episodes, to be released on December 15th, will kick off with Grammy-winning pop star Dua Lipa diving into the making of the …
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Mariah Carey has dropped a star-studded teaser for her upcoming Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special, which premieres on December 4th via Apple TV Plus. The trailer opens with Tiffany Haddish narrating. “I’ve got a great story to tell you,” she says. “‘Twas the night before Christmas and 2020 had been …
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It’s a happy “Franksgiving” for Zappa fans as director Alex Winter’s years-in-the-making authorized documentary Zappa has finally arrived. Touted as having unprecedented access to Zappa’s immense vault, the documentary is packed with never-before-seen footage of the legendary rock polymath: composer, guitar god, father to the Mothers of Invention, free-speech activist, …
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The Network, a long-dormant new wave band that does “not” feature members of Green Day, has returned with their first music in 17 years. “The Network were formed in the year 2003, fulfilling an ancient prophecy predicting that we, its chosen members, would issue a stern warning to mankind in …
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When Mike Campbell formed the Dirty Knobs with a loose collective of session pros back in 2001, he had no intention of making it his full-time gig. It was merely a chance to play some under-the-radar club shows when Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were off the road. They rarely …
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