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 …
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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 …
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If a hip-hop-tinged ode to film star Dennis Hopper performed by a Scotsman sounds random to you — well, yes, it is. But it’s also one of the most entertaining, catchy tracks on the Waterboys’ latest album, Good Luck, Seeker, or for that matter in their entire catalog. Frontman Mike …
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Kareem Ali doles out music at a torrid pace: He has released seven albums in the last 18 months, a mix of reverent deep house tracks and more potent, pointed grooves, questing science fiction and pressing political commentary. While it’s more common than ever for artists to jettison songs like …
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Two weeks after Omar Apollo dropped his new single “Stayback,” the rising Indiana singer has recruited Bootsy Collins for the track’s remix. The legendary bassist adds his trademark P-Funk grooves and distinct vocals to the already-funky track that tapped into the sound of early Prince and the Parliament-Funkadelic; Collins had …
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On Tuesday, Apple announced the launch of two new streaming radio stations, Apple Music Country and Apple Music Hits. Both are live now alongside the flagship station Beats 1, which has been renamed Apple Music 1. Originally launched alongside Apple Music in 2015, Beats 1 built its reputation on a …
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Rumor has it none of us are going anywhere for a while. So whether you’re watching YouTube videos of the ocean, floating on a pool of existential dread, or increasingly reminding your quarantine family that it’s five o’clock somewhere, let these songs soundtrack the delusion that you’re on vacation anywhere …
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Blackpink is celebrating the fourth anniversary of their debut with a big announcement. After weeks of teasing a “surprise feature,” the four-piece girl group confirmed that Selena Gomez will appear on their upcoming single, the follow-up to their record-breaking comeback track, “How You Like That.” The as-yet-untitled new song is …
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Erasure have released their latest single, “Nerves of Steel,” with a glammed-out music video starring a dozen or so drag queens and other LGBTQ stars, including some RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni. In the Brad Hammer-directed clip, Detox, Manila Luzon, Amanda Lepore, Candis Cayne and more show off their glam looks …
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Hayley Williams released an acoustic cover of Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees” on Instagram Monday as part of her “self-serenade” series of covers. (Past renditions have included Phoebe Bridgers’ “Smoke Signals” and Björk’s “Unison.”) In the caption for the cover, recorded as an iPhone voice memo, Williams explained that it would …
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