The Cure marked their 40th anniversary in 2018 with a pair of unique shows in London: One where they went through their catalogue chronologically for a small audience of die-hards, and another where they played a lengthy, career-spanning set to a massive crowd in Hyde Park. Both concerts were filmed …
Read More »Flashback: Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder Mash Up 'Uptight' and 'Satisfaction'
In the spring of 1972, Stevie Wonder released Music of My Mind and the Rolling Stones put out Exile on Main Street. Both albums were instant hits, with the former’s reaching Number 21 on the Billboard 200 and Exile reaching Number One. So when the Stones recruited Wonder, then just …
Read More »See YUNGBLUD Join Machine Gun Kelly for 'I Think I'm OKAY' on 'Corden'
Machine Gun Kelly and YUNGBLUD performed their joint single, “I Think I’m OKAY,” on The Late Late Show, offering a dynamic live rendition of the track. During the performance, a shirtless Machine Gun Kelly leaps around the stage before joining YUNGBLUD at a pair of microphones where they share guitar riffs …
Read More »Green Day Get Muddy at Woodstock '94
Green Day‘s mud-caked set at Woodstock ’94 was a crucial moment in the group’s long history, but to Billie Joe Armstrong’s mother Ollie — who witnessed her son pulling his pants down, throwing mud at fans and chanting obscenities on live television — it was nothing but a profound embarrassment. …
Read More »A$AP Rocky Testifies in Sweden: 'We Wanted to Defuse the Situation'
A$AP Rocky testified at his trial in Sweden Thursday that he tried to avoid an altercation with two men in Stockholm and that it was one of those men who started the fight with him and his bodyguards, The Associated Press reports. Rocky — real name Rakim Mayers — and …
Read More »Dead & Company Drop Out of Woodstock 50 as Artists Flee Beleaguered Festival
Dead & Company, the perennial jam band mainstays whose members helped solidify and define the 1960s rock scene with their performance at the original Woodstock, are the latest casualties of organizers’ decision to try and stage the festival at Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion next month. A source close to the …
Read More »Hear Miles Davis' Breezy, Newly Completed 'Paradise' From Lost Eighties Album
In September of 1986, Miles Davis released Tutu, his first album for Warner Bros. after three decades as a Columbia artist. But what fans of the late trumpeter didn’t know at the time was that he had originally started recording an entirely different LP for the label. Begun in 1985 …
Read More »Hear Motorhead's Gritty, Unreleased Live 'Bomber' From New '1979' Box Set
Motörhead performed a searing rendition of their punky metal onslaught “Bomber” at a gig in Le Mans, France in November 1979 that is just now coming out as part of a new box set that focuses on everything the band did that year. The unearthed clip shows Lemmy Kilmister snarling …
Read More »Man Involved in A$AP Rocky Altercation Will Not Be Charged With Assault
The man involved in an altercation with A$AP Rocky that led to the rapper’s arrest and detainment in a Swedish jail will not be charged after he was “suspected of molestation and assault,” Swedish prosecutors announced Monday. Since the beginning of July, A$AP Rocky and two associates have been held …
Read More »Weyes Blood Gets Mystical With 'Everyday' on 'Seth Meyers'
Weyes Blood, a.k.a. Natalie Mering, brought her chic white suit and Seventies Nilsson-style piano chords to Late Night with Seth Meyers Tuesday with a performance of “Everyday.” “I see you everyday/But that’s not enough,” Mering professes, before singing her signature line: “True love is making a comeback.” She sways back …
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