Duff McKagan has announced plans to release a solo album in 2019, an LP inspired in part by the bassist’s journeys while touring with the reunited Guns N’ Roses. The album, produced by Shooter Jennings, is a “musical follow-up” to McKagan’s 2015 book How to Be a Man (and Other …
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A new trailer for Loud Krazy Love, an upcoming Showtime documentary about Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, documents the musician’s struggles with addiction and his turbulent relationship with daughter Jennea. The clip opens with Korn at their peak in popularity in the Nineties, riding a wave of awards and platinum-selling …
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Natalie Portman belts Sia’s arena-tailored ballad “Wrapped Up” in the vivid new trailer for Vox Lux. The actress plays a re-emerging pop star with a tragic backstory in the Brady Corbet-directed film, which opens December 7th in New York and Los Angeles before a wide release on December 14th. ”I’m …
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Sharon Van Etten has returned from a long hiatus with her new album Remind Me Tomorrow (out January 18th), where she evolves her sound from guitar confessionals to haunting synths, keyboards and drones. That new direction is clear in the video for her new song “Jupiter 4.” Van Etten ominously …
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“Hot Wings” is a little cruel. 2 Chainz’s latest effort is less about chicken wings and more about the lengths a woman will go to acquire said poultry. “Bitch is fuckin’ for hot wings / Bitch is fuckin’ for American deli / Bitch is fuckin’ for some eye cream,” Chainz …
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Mike Gordon has had a big year. He released his excellent psychedelic solo album OGOGO and has spent the time since alternating between solo tours and Phish, who just played an entire Halloween show as a pretend Scandinavian prog band. Phish have two other huge events coming up: their annual …
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Music reality TV with a hip-hop angle doesn’t have a long history, and there are basically only two moments in the genre that really matter: That one time Diddy made the contestants on Making The Band walk to get him cheesecake, and the other time he made an entirely new …
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Ani DiFranco, the proudly independent folk-rock artist who self-released her first LP in 1990, will release a memoir next spring. No Walls and the Recurring Dream will come out via Viking on May 7th. The book will chronicle her early life, her music, feminism and political activism, as well as …
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Alice in Chains blend gritty realism and creepy fantasy in their new video for “Never Fade,” the latest single from the alt-metal band’s sixth LP, Rainier Fog. Director Adam Mason continues the cryptic dark thriller storyline from his previous clip for “The One You Know,” veering from an extra-terrestrial attack …
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Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars and Kodak Black have dropped the lavish new video for their single “Wake Up in the Sky.” The three artists don shimmering suits and opulent jewelry, pop champagne and celebrate the good life in the visual that is a throwback to R&B acts of yore. “We …
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