To coincide with Election Day, Drive-By Truckers have released the new song “The Perilous Night,” a politically charged polemic that follows the pointed commentary of the group’s 2016 opus American Band. Much like the band’s song “What It Means,” “The Perilous Night,” written by Patterson Hood, is a deeply literal …
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British singer Lily Allen will reflect on her music, career and turbulent life in a new memoir due out in the fall of 2018. The as-yet-untitled book, Allen’s debut as an author, will cover the singer’s childhood, love life, motherhood and “the highs and lows of fame,” including her battles …
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Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee’s annual weekend celebration of experimental music, is announcing the initial lineup for their 2018 edition, being held March 22nd through 25th. For their seventh year, the fest leans heavily toward the heavyweights of avant-garde jazz, including performances by Medeski Martin & Wood, piano luminaries Jason …
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In the history of country music, where grisly murder ballads and laments to dead mothers, children and dogs are commonplace, every day carries a little bit of the ghoulish Halloween spirit with it. There is probably no more twisted, demented and just plain odd a country song than “Psycho,” a …
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Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen’s musical partnership is well-chronicled, with 2017 marking the 10th anniversary of the Texas country pair’s Hold My Beer and Watch This Tour. The two singers always like getting more friends in on the action, so this December they’ll be hitting the road for a run …
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Kid Rock said he will not run for Senate during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show Tuesday, according to The Detroit Free Press. After playing coy about his political ambitions for months, Kid Rock admitted that it was all a ploy to build hype for his new album, Sweet …
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Like a pair of rapid-talking auctioneers, Keith Urban and Chris Janson tackled a cover of John Michael Montgomery’s “Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident”) at the Grand Ole Opry earlier this month. The one-off performance took place on October 10th, while both singers were part of a stacked Opry bill …
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Taylor Swiftdelivers a paean to a handsome object of desire on new song “Gorgeous,” the third offering from her upcoming album Reputation, out November 10th. The song is the yang to the vindictive, angry yin of “Look What You Made Me Do,” as Swift sings wistfully about a man she’s …
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Beck gave an electric performance of “Up All Night” on Ellen Tuesday. The track appears on the musician’s latest album, Colors. The performance found Beck and his backing band breezily playing through the ecstatic pop-rock cut. Amidst flourishes of glittering disco guitars and supple harmonies, Beck embraced the dance-happy environs …
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Any good bluegrass band is worth its weight in cover songs, so it’s no surprise to see Infamous Stringdusters returning to the fertile territory of their 2015 EP Undercover. The Virginians have a sequel, Undercover Vol. 2, on the way, which includes their version of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.” …
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