Let us take a moment to consider those who have been impacted most by the pandemic. Not women, who are dropping out of the workforce like flies; not people of color, who are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and live in constant fear of becoming the victims of police violence; and …
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On October 6th, Steve Perry got a text from his recording engineer that read, “Oh man, Eddie Van Halen. I can’t believe it.” The former Journey frontman had no idea what he was talking about. “I don’t watch the news anymore,” he says. “And so I picked up the phone …
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WASHINGTON — We didn’t need to know President Trump’s answer to whether the QAnon conspiracy theory was crazy and untrue. We didn’t need to know President Trump’s answer about how he would replace Obamacare. We didn’t need to know President Trump’s answer about whether he would condemn white supremacy. The …
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Johnny Bush, the Texas country-music veteran who co-wrote Willie Nelson‘s signature opening number “Whiskey River,” has died at 85. Bush’s manager confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone. Born in Houston in 1935 as John Bush Shinn III, Bush received his big break from Nelson, who helped him land a …
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American Utopia begins where David Byrne’s 2018 album of the same name ended: with the song “Here.” “Here is an area of great confusion,” the former Talking Heads singer declares from a steel-gray, uncluttered stage, a model brain aloft in his hand. He points to another region on the brain: …
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Stevie Nicks made her TikTok debut on Tuesday. For her first clip Nicks nodded to TikTok user Nathan Apodaca, aka @420doggface208 on TikTok, who went viral on the app with a video of him skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac‘s 1977 single “Dreams” while drinking Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice. In her new …
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Early in 2019, Sub Urban’s “Cradles” — a pinging, defiantly introverted single — helped establish a path that has now become commonplace in the music industry: A deluge of TikTok users picked “Cradles” to soundtrack their 15-second videos, leading to a surge in streams, and the wave of interest helped …
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Jack White has replaced Morgan Wallen as the musical guest for the October 10th episode of Saturday Night Live, joining host Bill Burr. Wallen was set to make his debut on the show this Saturday, before a video surfaced of the country artist at a party without a mask.SNL then …
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Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page remembered his fellow guitar god Eddie Van Halen following Van Halen’s death Tuesday at the age of 65. “It is with great sadness that I heard the passing of Eddie Van Halen,” Page wrote on Instagram. “He was the real deal: he pioneered a dazzling technique …
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Music publishing has never been more commercially vibrant — from some perspectives, at least. Institutional investors are increasingly viewing evergreen music copyrights as hot property. Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis Songs Fund is paying notoriously high multiples to acquire songwriter and publishing catalogs, and it hit an all-time share price high in …
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