With Oasis not likely reuniting anytime soon, singer, guitarist and Gallagher brothers superfan Sadler Vaden did the next best thing: performed the famously fractured band’s songs himself. On Wednesday night at East Nashville club the Basement East, Vaden, guitar player for Jason Isbell’s the 400 Unit, recruited fellow Oasis fans …
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Speaking from his home in Toronto, Snow is still baffled that his reggae-hip-hop merger “Informer” topped charts and moved millions of copies over 25 years ago. “That’s a jailsong,” he says, still sounding surprised. “It’s not, ‘Baby, I love you.’ I wrote that song in jailabout informers. But people didn’t …
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As far as musical excavators go, few are as unflinching as Rhiannon Giddens. Through her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops and a growing body of solo material, the 42-year-old multi-instrumentalist has mined the darkest recesses of the American subconscious to give voice to the used, abused and oppressed. But …
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DJ Khaled provided a star-studded set for his Saturday Night Live debut as he joined host Paul Ruddon the Season 44 finale. Khaled appeared clad in a sweatshirt with Nipsey Hussle emblazoned on the front while he blistered through a medley of songs from his new album Father of Asahd, …
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Jarvis Cocker has always been one of rock’s greatest wry wits, from his days in Pulp slinging Brit-pop bangers about the British class system to more recent solo joints like his 2009 tune “I Never Said I Was Deep,” a bit of Bowie-esque bloat that felt a little like Ziggy …
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Ahead of a two-night run in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theatre that begins tonight, Tedeschi Trucks Band stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform multiple songs on the show’s outdoor stage. During a short set, the 12-piece soul-rock outfit, led by the husband-and-wife duo of guitarist Derek Trucks and …
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Britney Spears‘ manager Larry Rudolph said the pop star may never perform live again in a new interview with TMZ. “As the person who guides her career — based on the information I and all of the professionals who work with her are being told on a need-to-know basis — …
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New York rockers The Strokes are back with a new song, “The Adults Are Talking.” The group debuted the track live during a charity performance at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, incorporating it into a lengthy set of hits that included “The Modern Age” and “Last Nite.” The song, a …
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Chely Wright and Austin Jenckes take different approaches to chronicling the journey to meet their partners in a pair of excellent new tracks, the Sisterhood aim for summer radio dominance with “Get Up and Go” and Tenille Arts pays tribute to her mother in this week’s group of must-hear songs. …
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Twenty-five years ago, Rivers Cuomo was attending community college when his band Weezer released their self-titled debut. “I brought it to class and said, ‘Look everybody,’” he recalled in 1995. “They were all like, ‘Yeah, cool, whatever.’” The music world would show significantly more interest than his classmates. Arriving on …
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