A young Luke Combs heads to the roller-skating rink on a mission to win the affection of a friend in the video for his hit “Lovin’ On You,” from his second album What You See Is What You Get. Combs recently previewed the location when he performed the song on …
Read More »Black Concert Promoters Want to Talk About Live Music's Exclusion Problem
A group of over a dozen black concert promoters in the U.S. is working to address longstanding inequality in their industry — which members say has made it a challenge for them to stay competitive in an increasingly consolidated live music marketplace. The new organization, called The Black Promoters Collective …
Read More »Neil Young Announces 1970 Carnegie Hall Concert as First 'Official Bootleg'
Neil Young has selected a concert he played at New York’s Carnegie Hall on December 4th, 1970 as the inaugural release from his upcoming Official Bootleg series. It’s a solo acoustic gig that happened just three months after the release of After the Gold Rush that has never before been …
Read More »Big Sean's Holistic Healing
Big Sean has a cure for what’s ailing the world. In fact, Sean hawks so many cures on his latest album that it’s hard to keep track. The first one resides on the opening bar of “Why Would I Stop?” when he proclaims: “This shit the antidote, this the ‘cure …
Read More »Hungry Families Dealt Additional Blow: Letter Signed by Trump Included in Food Aid Boxes
President Trump, who is always in a self-promotion mode, wants Americans who are suffering enough to seek assistance to think that he is largely responsible for their most recent meal. Letters signed by Trump have been included in government-funded food relief packages shipped to needy families by the U.S. Department …
Read More »Linda Perry, Fjøra on Reimagining 4 Non Blondes' 'What's Up?' for 'Welcome to Blumhouse' Teaser
Four Non Blondes’ 1993 smash “What’s Up?” isn’t exactly the kind of song that leaps to mind when you think “horror movie trailer.” But in the new teaser for the first slate of thrillers in Blumhouse Production’s Welcome to Blumhouse series, the familiar strains of Linda Perry’s iconic chorus simmer …
Read More »Laid-Off Paradigm Agents Are Launching Their Own Talent Agency
Talent agencies made steep staff layoffs at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. But now, several departed agents from Paradigm — one of the major music agencies that announced cuts — have announced their own company, carrying over prominent touring acts including The War on Drugs, Chvrches, and Courtney Barnett. …
Read More »Toots Hibbert 'Showing Signs of Improvement' After Being Placed in Intensive Care Unit
Toots & the Maytals frontman Frederick “Toots” Hibbert is “making progress” in an intensive care unit at a private facility in Kingston, Jamaica as he awaits the results of a Covid-19 test. A representative for Hibbert confirmed the musician’s hospitalization to Rolling Stone, saying “[T]he family would like to assure …
Read More »Lockn' Festival Postponed to October 2021
The Lockn’ Festival announced Saturday that its October 2020 event — like every other major music festival during the Covid-19 pandemic — is canceled. In July, the Arrington, Virginia-based fest announced a series of health measures — including mask requirements, stages that allowed for audience social distancing, cashless transactions and …
Read More »'Big Mouth' Casts Writer/Performer Ayo Edebiri as Missy, Replacing Jenny Slate
Netflix announced on Friday that comedy writer and performer Ayo Edebiri has joined the cast ofBig Mouth as Missy, replacing Jenny Slate, who has voiced the character since the animated show’s first season. Edebiri will first be introduced as Missy in the penultimate episode of Season 4, premiering in fall …
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