Posts Tagged ‘greatest-albums’

Tame Impala on Touring, Success and Festival Crowds

June 18th, 2013

Kevin Parker recorded Tame Impala’s psychedelic masterpiece Lonerism mostly alone in a Paris apartment but he had no problem recreating it live when the Aussie band played Bonnaroo on Sunday finding deep grooves in “Elephant” and “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” “Playing live is a different beast altogether” Parker tells…

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Mumford & Sons’ Ted Dwane Shares Post-Surgery Picture

June 17th, 2013

Mumford & Sons’ bassist Ted Dwane is out of the hospital and thanked fans for their support following brain surgery to remove a blood clot last week The band posted a photo of Dwane on its website showing him with a shaved head “Bear with a sore head! Thanks so much…

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Joni Mitchell Honored in Toronto

June 17th, 2013

Joni Mitchell was as colorful complex and engaging in conversation as she is in her songwriting during a rare 90-minute chat with New York Times chief music critic Jon Pareles as part of Luminato festival’s TimesTalks in Toronto last evening “Music like my life didn’t want to stay in one key”…

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Drake Sets North American Tour

June 17th, 2013

Drake will be hitting the road for a deep 41-date North American tour this fall with Miguel and Future The Canadian singer and rapper will kick off his “Would You Like a Tour?” outing on September 25th at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland Oregon and wrap up on November…

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Rare Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do’ 45 Sells for $10,000

June 17th, 2013

A rare demo of the Beatles’ first single “Love Me Do” has sold on eBay for more than $10000 According to Ultimate Classic Rock the 45 was reportedly one out of only 250 made for radio station airplay in 1962 The demo from the personal collection of the seller predates…

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Jordan Galland, Charlotte Kemp Muhl and Sean Lennon Unite on ‘AKA Love’ – Song Premiere

June 17th, 2013

Inspired by a year spent working on independent film scores New York singer-songwriter Jordan Galland approached his fourth solo release Wind-Up Rabbit with a cinematic mindset He was determined to include “AKA Love” a nostalgic male-female duet on the album but he was missing the perfect chanteuse for it It…

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Lock of Mick Jagger’s Hair Up for Auction

June 16th, 2013

A lock of Mick Jagger’s hair is about to go up for auction thanks to an old girlfriend’s crafty grandma As Fox News reports the British auction house Bonham’s is putting a piece of the Rolling Stone’s famous mane up for sale on July 3rd along with a statement of provenance…

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Bonnaroo 2013: Jack Johnson Saves the Day

June 16th, 2013

Midway through his Bonnaroo headlining set last night after a last-minute cancellation by Mumford & Sons Jack Johnson announced he had written a song about the festival Over a slow-rolling acoustic progression he told the story of being on the way to Manchester Tennessee to play a surprise late-night gig…

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Welcome Baby Girl

June 15th, 2013

Kanye West’s baby girl has arrived A source confirmed to Us Weekly that Kim Kardashian gave birth today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood The baby is the first for 32-year-old Kardashian who started dating West 36 in the spring of 2012 The father-to-be let news of the pregnancy slip during…

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Ed Sheeran Covers ‘Masters of War’ for Agit8

June 15th, 2013

Ed Sheeran added his voice to the One Campaign’s fight against global poverty by covering Bob Dylan’s searing 1963 song “Masters of War” for the group’s new initiative agit8 In the lead-up to the G8 summit in Northern Ireland next week the One Campaign assembled a roster of artists including Tom…

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U2 Play Acoustic ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ for Agit8

June 14th, 2013

U2 have posted a clip of them performing an acoustic version of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” joining bands contributing protest songs to the One Campaign’s agit8 anti-poverty initiative In snippets of an interview interspersed with performance footage Bono describes listening to John Lennon Bob Marley and Bob Dylan singing songs of dissent…

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Pink Floyd Seek a Million ‘Wish You Were Here’ Spotify Streams

June 14th, 2013

Pink Floyd has avoided Spotify thus far but the band has announced on Twitter that they’re willing to post their catalog on the streaming service – on one condition they’re holding out until their 1975 track “Wish You Were Here” hits a million streams 100 Greatest Artists Pink Floyd EMI Records holds Pink Floyd’s…

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