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Journey, Pearl Jam, Tupac among new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees

Music lovers, get ready to rock the vote. The 2017 nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been announced, and this year's group has something for almost everyone. This year's first-time nominees are Bad Brains, Depeche Mode, Electric Light Orchestra, Jane's Addiction, Joan Baez, Journey, Pearl Jam, Steppenwolf and Tupac Shakur. They join past nominees who are back on the list: Chaka Khan, Chic, Janet Jackson, J. […]

todayOctober 18, 2016

Music

5 reflections from Paul McCartney’s intimate Pappy & Harriet’s show

Paul McCartney made 75,000 people rock out at Desert Trip’s first weekend at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, with an encore performance set for Saturday, Oct. 15. But on Thursday, McCartney and his band stopped by a beloved intimate venue in the high desert — Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown — to play a show for fans that numbered in the hundreds, not the tens of thousands. I wrote about the […]

todayOctober 15, 2016

Music

Bob Dylan makes no mention of Nobel prize as he takes to the stage

Newly-minted Nobel laureate Bob Dylan kept cool as a cucumber on stage in Las Vegas, barely speaking a word to the audience in his first public performance since winning the coveted prize. As the audience chanted for more songs on Thursday night, Dylan gave just a brief encore, ending his set with a mournful yet playful cover of Frank Sinatra’s Why Try To Change Me Now. Dylan hurtled to prominence […]

todayOctober 14, 2016

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Nobel prize in literature won by Bob Dylan

Singer-songwriter awarded for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’ Bob Dylan was named the surprise winner of the Nobel prize for literature in Stockholm today “for having created new poetic expressions with the great American song tradition”. Speaking to reporters after the announcement, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius said she “hoped” the Academy would not be criticised for its choice. “The […]

todayOctober 13, 2016

Music

Watch the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney Play Each Other’s Hits

The Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones was one of the great musical rivalries of the Sixties. So it was “strange,” as Mick Jagger himself said, to see the Stones pay tribute to the Fab Four at the Desert Trip festival by performing their 1969 Abbey Road song “Come Together.” The Rolling Stones kicked off the inaugural Desert Trip festival on Friday, October 7. It’s unknown what prompted the performance of […]

todayOctober 11, 2016

Music

Bruno Mars Returns After 4 Years With “24K Magic”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqyT8IEBkvY   The wait is over! Bruno Mars is back with a brand new beat: "24K Magic," his first single in four years. After a week of hype on social media, the 30-year-old musician released the song and music video overnight. "You can call it my first single," Mars said, "but I call it the invitation to the party." "24K Magic" was written and produced by Shampoo Press & Curl, […]

todayOctober 7, 2016

Music

Our Favorite Songs Right Now: the Weeknd, Leonard Cohen, Beck and More

As Halloween approaches, pop artists are embracing the spirit of the season. The latest playlist of current Rolling Stone favorites starts by plunging you into gloom courtesy of tracks from respective prince and king of darkness the Weeknd and Leonard Cohen. Below you'll also hear the latest offerings from Beck and Danny Brown, and should-be hits from up-and-comers like Prep and Goat Girl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na4j8AVgA The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk, "Starboy" […]

todayOctober 7, 2016

Music

Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona

As a young musician coming up in the early 1970s, Bruce Springsteen played in the bars of Asbury Park, N.J., a hardscrabble urban beach town full of colorful characters. The town fired his imagination and inspired him musically, but still he found himself longing for more. Springsteen tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he knew that if he was ever going to make his mark on the larger world, it […]

todayOctober 6, 2016

Music

The Ramones Are Getting Their Own New York City Street

The Ramones left an indelible mark on New York City, and now, the band will be memorialized in their native Queens. According to a statement on the band's official website, a street in front of the borough's Forest Hills High School -- which all four of the group's founding members attended -- will be renamed Ramones Way. The renamed street will be unveiled in a ceremony at the intersection of […]

todayOctober 5, 2016

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