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Producer Amon Tobin is bringing back his wildly successful ISAM Live show, an immense audio and visual performance, this year with some slightly new looks. Along with more tour dates, the avant-garde producer is also set to release a box set with seven CDs and two DVDs filled with rare and unreleased footage from last [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> John Mellencamp may have made his name cutting heartland hits like “Jack and Diane” and “Pink Houses,” but he also turns to painting to express himself. “It’s my hobby,” Mellencamp tells Rolling Stone on Thursday at a gallery reception in Nashville, where Nothing Like I Planned: The Art of John Mellencamp [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Donna Summer, the singer known to her fans as the Queen of Disco, died on Thursday at the age of 63. Summer, along with the producer Giorgio Moroder, was at the forefront of the disco movement in the Seventies, expanding and transforming dance music by mutating strains of RB, funk and [...]

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Brooklyn-based electro-pop group St. Lucia recently performed a sunny version of their catchy track “Closer Than This” at the Spotify House in Austin. They recall of the show, “We’ve done a couple of acoustic recordings but not in front of an audience, so this was quite nerve-wracking.” The smaller, more intimate setting of the Spotify [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> “I’d like to make a suggestion to President Obama, ” Tom Morello bellowed to the capacity crowd gathered for the National Nurses United rally at Chicago’s Daley Plaza on Friday afternoon. “If he doesn’t have the courage to close Guantanamo Bay, how about he takes some of those Wall Street criminals? [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Click to listen to El-P’s album ‘Cancer4Cure’ Constantly progressing and unapologetically ambitious, Brooklyn indie-rap icon El-P has returned with Cancer for Cure, his first solo hip-hop album in five years. Since then, the underground rap world that anointed El-P has dissipated, replaced by an anything-goes broadband landscape of endless independent mixtapes [...]

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<!– –> Click to Enlarge <!– –> Click to listen to the Afghan Whigs’ ‘See and Don’t See’ The recently reunited Afghan Whigs have returned with their first new recording in over five years: a cover of “See and Don’t See,” originally recorded in 1970 by Marie “Queenie” Lyons. The track gets a haunting rework [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> It certainly was a great night in Harlem on Thursday, as producer Quincy Jones and a cast of blues, jazz and RB greats gathered to raise funds and awareness for artists who have fallen into financial despair. “We don’t just dedicate this song to the ones who’ve passed on,” Bono said [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Van Halen have abruptly postponed all tour dates after their June 26th show in New Orleans with no explanation. The band yanked more than 30 long-planned dates, including shows in Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Salt Lake City and El Paso. Local promoters United Concerts and AEG issued statements regarding some postponed shows [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Just two days ago, Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward announced that he would not participate in the group’s three upcoming reunion gigs with an incredibly detailed, 1,504-word letter. Today, the rest of the group responded with a mere 54 words. Their statement reads, in full: We have decided not to make [...]

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