Smash Mouth Singer Steve Harwell Reportedly Has ‘Days To Live’ After Liver Failure Diagnosis ( hollywoodlife.com )
Rich Men North of Richmond by Oliver Anthony (Slight Language Warning) ( yewtu.be )
Lyrics:...
Jimmy Buffett, legendary 'Margaritaville' singer, dies at 76 ( www.nbcnews.com )
Johnny Cash Is a Hero to Americans on the Left and Right. But His Music Took a Side. ( slate.com )
In July and August of 1961, Johnny Cash recorded a batch of songs that became the basis for Blood, Sweat and Tears, a record many regard as merely a concept album about working people. But Blood, Sweat and Tears is a concept album about race in America, about the violent enforcement of racial hierarchies in America. It is the...
Talking Heads to Appear Together For First Time in 21 years ( www.rollingstone.com )
Epic Games Sells Bandcamp Amid Layoffs ( pitchfork.com )
[CNN] Steve Harwell, founding lead singer of Smash Mouth, dead at 56 ( www.cnn.com )
RIP to a true All Star....
A Heavy Metal Legend Secretly Wrote One of Johnny Cash's Best Songs ( www.wearethepit.com )
James Hetfield Tests Positive for COVID-19, Metallica Postpones Show ( www.ultimate-guitar.com )
According to a newly released report by AZCentral.com,Metallica cut their set short for the September 1 performance over at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The show was a part of the band’s “No Repeat Weekend” which sees them doing two consecutive days with no repeated songs....
Jason Aldean's 'Small Town' is part of a long legacy with a very dark side ( www.npr.org )
Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” which ignited controversy this week over claims that the song and its new video promote white supremacy and violence, is far from the first country song to attack cities using racist dog whistles. “Try That” is most clearly a descendant of Hank Williams Jr.‘s “A Country...
Spotify: "Adjusting Our Spotify Premium Prices" ( newsroom.spotify.com )
First price rise since 2011....
Irish music icon Sinead O'Connor dead at 56: reports ( www.ctvnews.ca )
TikTok may be building a Spotify killer ( twitter.com )
What will Spotify’s price rise mean for its recording artists and songwriters? ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: yiffit.net/post/678460...
Article: We failed Amy Winehouse ( archive.li )
My view on this very feminist piece is that Winehouse wasn’t anywhere near as influential or impactful to music and other musicians as Nirvana (which is the article’s main point of comparison). Many other musicians and singers have come and gone (both male and female) and are not held in anywhere near the same reverence as...
Britpop: What prompted the end of the genre that gave us Blur and Pulp? (BBC News) ( www.bbc.com )
This summer, some of Britpop’s biggest bands are back on the road....
Keep Bandcamp Great: Tell Songtradr to recognize and negotiate with Bandcamp United immediately ( actionnetwork.org )
On September 28, Epic Games announced the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr, Inc. In an internal announcement to staff, Epic Games wrote that Songtradr, Inc. would be offering positions to some Bandcamp employees but not all. This comes amidst ongoing contract negotiations with Bandcamp’s staff union - Bandcamp United.
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire ( yewtu.be )
Wilco, Cork, Ireland, Sept. 9th setlist ( sh.itjust.works )
Great gig! Monster sound and a beast of a version of Kidsmoke.
Streaming radio app for SomaFM ( radiomg.app )
SomaFM is an independent internet-only streaming multi-channel radio station, supported entirely with donations from listeners...
Beast In The Field -Wakan Tanka ( drive.google.com )
Stoner music, eh?
How would you define proto shoegaze? - lemmy.studio ( lemmy.studio )
2CELLOS - Wake Me Up - Avicii [OFFICIAL VIDEO] ( yewtu.be )
Fuck This Job - Wheeler Walker, Jr. ( soundcloud.com )
Dub FX Still Making Fat Grooves With Latest Release 'Infinite Reflection' ( www.musicmachina.com )
We first encountered Dub FX busking on the streets of Bristol in the UK in a 2009 video ‘Flow featuring Mr. Woodnote’. The video, shot in black and white, shows an then-unknown rapper who builds a beat from scratch, dives into flawless lyrical delivery before holding the mic up so the saxaphone player can weave in with a...