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<!– –> <!– –> To fight world hunger and transform their fans into social activists, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Beyoncé, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Kanye West, My Morning Jacket and dozens of other stars will donate two tickets to every show they play for the next three years. The Global Citizen Tickets Initiative, announced today, [...]

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Cat Power made her first appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night, backed up by the Roots. She performed “Manhattan,” the chiming and bittersweet track off her 2012 album Sun whose video came out this week. Cat Power, who was forced to postpone her European tour last fall because of health and financial troubles, heads back out on [...]

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Now that we’ve all had time to digest the shocking news that David Bowie is releasing a new album in March, there’s one obvious question: Will he support it with a tour? Bowie hasn’t done a concert since a massive heart attack abruptly shortened his 2003/04 Reality world tour, and he hasn’t sung a single [...]

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Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival has announced next year’s iteration will take place June 13th-16th in Manchester, Tennessee. Limited ticket pre-sale information will be announced in November. Bonnaroo 2012 featured Radiohead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, a reunited Beach Boys, D’Angelo’s first U.S. live performance in over a decade and more. For more info and [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> “We’re playing better than we have since 2010,” Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney tells Rolling Stone in the middle of the band’s summer tour. “When you play a song 60 times a year, you fuck around with it.” Carney, exhausted from months on the road and ready to return home to [...]

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Yelawolf was first introduced to hip-hop as a child in Alabama when Run-DMC paid a visit to his mom’s boyfriend and left behind some tapes. ”It was destiny, you know, man,” he says. “It just kind of fell into my world. I had no business at all knowing anything about it.” In this interview at Bonnaroo, [...]

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Jacob Hemphill and Bob Jefferson of the Virginia-based reggae band SOJA met as first graders and were already performing together in middle-school hip-hop talent shows when they discovered the power of reggae. “It seemed like reggage was bigger than music in a way,” Hemphill tells Rolling Stone in this interview at Bonnaroo. ”The goal of reggae wasn’t [...]

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“I think when you’re making music, you should always come into it with a little sense of naivity and what-the-fuck-are-you-doing-ness,” Ben Folds tells Rolling Stone in this interview at Bonnaroo. The band talks about keeping in touch during their hiatus, getting back together, and why they chose to go the crowd-funding route for their new album. “The [...]

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“It started as a rivalry,” ALO’s keyboardist Zach Gill says of the band’s early support from Jack Johnson. They all met as students at UC Santa Barbara, fiercely competing to be the biggest backyard party band in the freshman dorms. In this interview at Bonnaroo, ALO talk to Rolling Stone about how to practice improvising, moving to [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> When Alice Cooper takes over the late-night tent at Bonnaroo next month, he plans to come out swinging. “If you’re in the first 20 rows, you’ll probably get some blood on you,” Cooper told reporters on a conference call about the festival. “When we get up onstage, my band has the [...]

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