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Cover Story – Pale Waves

Cover Story – Pale Waves

| January 31, 2021 | 0 Comments

If anyone didn’t know it when she first got into showbiz as a wide-eyed, small-town British naif, they know it now — Pale Waves front-vixen Heather Baron-Gracie pulls no punches, suffers no fools gladly, and always shoots straight from the hip. She’s justifiably proud of her newfound industry acumen, and she’s even developed an alter […]

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Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz January 28th – January 31st

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz January 28th – January 31st

| January 25, 2021

iHeartRadio’s “ALTer EGO 2021 Festival” airs this Thursday with new performances by Billie Eilish and Foo Fighters, along with previous performances from Beck, Blink-182, Cage the Elephant, Coldplay, The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Weezer, The Killers, Muse, and Twenty One Pilots. Tune in on January 28th at 8 PM on LiveXLive. Music Feeds will […]

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The Lockdown Interviews • Hen Ogledd

The Lockdown Interviews • Hen Ogledd

| January 21, 2021 | 0 Comments

Given the turbulent, truly batshit-crazy year that we’ve all just staggered through, it was easy to overlook a lot of great, often idiosyncratic albums that continued to be released, pandemic be damned. And we’d like to pause, catch our mask-in-place breath, and bring you up to speed on a few obscure aural delights you might […]

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Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz January 21st -January 24th

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz January 21st -January 24th

| January 19, 2021 | 0 Comments

  Bandsintown Plus presents an exclusive Phoebe Bridgers performance and Q+A from Los Angeles on Thursday, January 21s at 8 PM. Sign up for Bandsintown Plus to watch. “The Hives Present: The World’s First World Wide Web World Tour 2021″ kicks off on Thursday with a live show in Berlin. Fans will have the chance […]

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Featured: Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon • The Impossible Tour

Featured: Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon • The Impossible Tour

| January 16, 2021 | 0 Comments

For many enterprising artists, live-streaming concerts from home during last year’s pandemic lockdown became a requisite new skill that demanded mastering; finding a way to implement several online platforms to your benefit when touring was no longer possible. But for Dream Syndicate bandleader Steve Wynn and his drummer wife Linda Pitmon, it had a cold, […]

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Featured: Beki Hemingway

Featured: Beki Hemingway

| January 6, 2021 | 0 Comments

Earth, Asphalt, and Places in the Soul The tall tales and small stories captured on Beki Hemingway’s new album Earth and Asphalt suggest that her audience has a lot of catching up to do, with the assurance that it will be time well spent. Much has happened since the release of 2017’s Whins and Weather, […]

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Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz January 7th – January 11th

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz January 7th – January 11th

| January 5, 2021 | 0 Comments

  Indie rock trio Sunflower Bean performs live from New York on Thursday, January 7th at 8 PM. Find tickets here. “A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day” celebrates the one and only David Bowie‘s life and career. The night features performances from Bowie’s friends and peers, including Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Billy […]

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Featured: The Avalanches

Featured: The Avalanches

| January 4, 2021 | 0 Comments

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” goes the old Emerson-attributed adage. And Australian producer-multi-instrumentalist Robbie Chater can definitely relate. Back in 2000, his unassuming but ambitious little electronic trio The Avalanches came up with a debut disc like no other before it, the buzz-crackling Since I Left […]

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Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz December 29th – January 2nd

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz December 29th – January 2nd

| December 29, 2020 | 0 Comments

  CKY presents an “evening of mayhem, madness, and music” with “sweet sounds and special guests” as one final kiss-off to the year on Tuesday, December 29th at 9 PM. Get tickets here. The legendary Patti Smith and her band will perform in celebration of Smith’s birthday on Wednesday, December 30th at 8 PM. Get […]

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Featured: Lindsey Stirling – “Home For The Holidays”

Featured: Lindsey Stirling – “Home For The Holidays”

| December 14, 2020 | 0 Comments

  It’s hard to believe, but yes, it’s that time of year again — the usually festive, Frosty-and-Rudolph, tacky-sweater-sporting Yuletide season, when everyone, even that spindly little Charlie Brown conifer, gets spruced up for the occasion. But if you’re having a tough time getting out of grumbling Grinch mode, imagine how it’s been for poor […]

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Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz December 10th-December 15th

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz December 10th-December 15th

| December 8, 2020 | 0 Comments

Parquet Courts celebrate their 10th anniversary with a livestream performance from New York’s Brooklyn Pioneers Works. “Ten years ago, our adventure began by playing our first show to virtually no one, and to celebrate, we’ve decided to play a show to everyone, virtually,” Parquet Courts said in a statement. Celebrate with the band Thursday, December […]

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Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz – December 1st – December 5th

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz – December 1st – December 5th

| December 1, 2020 | 0 Comments

  Punk rockers Salem will stream a socially distanced show presented by Kerrang’s K! Pit Tuesday, December 1st at 12 PM. Watch it for free on their Facebook page. Clint Black and wife Lisa Hartman Black will perform live from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee Wednesday, December 2nd at 8 PM. Get tickets […]

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Spins: U2 – “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” • Super Deluxe Vinyl Box Set

Spins: U2 – “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” • Super Deluxe Vinyl Box Set

| November 30, 2020 | 0 Comments

  U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind Super Deluxe vinyl box set (Island/Interscope/UMe) During the year 2000, U2 was a band on a mission. After the perceived disappointment of 1997’s experimental and techno-friendly Pop (an album that went “merely” platinum in the United States), the Irish quartet were determined to reclaim their signature sound–and with […]

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Cover Story: The Smashing Pumpkins

Cover Story: The Smashing Pumpkins

| November 30, 2020 | 0 Comments

Oh, that irascible old Billy Corgan. Even in a foreboding, energy-sapping, pandemic Plague Year, you just can’t take him ANYWHERE. It was a solid, thought-provoking opening question, intended to kick-start our recent interview with the man about CYR! The remarkably-assured new double-record set from Smashing Pumpkins, its 11th, featuring the mostly-original lineup of James Iha […]

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Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz November 10th – November 14th

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz November 10th – November 14th

| November 10, 2020 | 0 Comments

Halsey celebrates the release of her poetry book, I Would Leave Me if I Could, with a special livestream Tuesday, November 10that 5 PM. Pre-order a copy of her book and show proof of purchase to get a ticket. 311 will perform songs from their debut album Music live from their Hive studio in LA Wednesday, November 11that […]

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