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‘Lipps Service’ Welcomes Peaches, The Hives

Peaches Provocative Canadian artist Peaches and Swedish rockers the Hives are the guests on the two latest installments of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about their latest projects and the inspirations behind them. The artist born Merrill Nisker in Toronto takes Lipps from singing at bar and bat mitzvahs as a kid and studying theater, discovering electronic music and helping pioneer the electroclash movement in the late 1990s. It also explores Peaches’ first new […]

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Neil Diamond Conjures Third, Final Rick Rubin LP

Rick Rubin and Neil Diamond (photo: Capitol). Neil Diamond is returning with one last chapter from his long-running collaboration and commercially successful run with Rick Rubin. The 85-year-old legendary singer/songwriter and Capitol/UMe will release Wild at Heart on May 8, a 10-track collection drawn from sessions surrounding 2008’s Home Before Dark and billed as the final installment in his trilogy of albums with Rubin, which began with 2005’s 12 Songs. […]

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Roots Picnic Rounds Out With Badu, Kehlani

Erykah Badu performing in Brussels, Belgium, on August 12, 2003. (photo: Gie Knaeps) The Roots Picnic has filled in the rest of its 2026 lineup, adding Erykah Badu as a second headliner alongside a deeper slate of R&B and hip-hop names.As previously reported, Jay-Z will top the May 30 bill at Belmont Plateau with the Roots serving as his backing band — a years-in-the-making reunion that had already been announced […]

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Power ‘Hour’: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine Pens Memoir

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine (photo: Travis Shinn). Amid the unexpected No. 1 debut for Megadeth’s final studio album and its accompanying last world tour, frontman Dave Mustaine will release his memoir, In My Darkest Hour, on Sept. 8 through Da Capo. The book was co-written with Joe Layden and details Mustaine’s multi-year battle with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue and his path to recovery.“One of most harrowing experiences of my […]

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Lorde ‘Inspired’ After Parting Ways With Universal

Lorde at the 2025 Met Gala (photo: John Shearer / WireImage). Lorde has parted ways with Universal Music Group, to which she has been signed in some form since she was 12 years old. The New Zealand-born artist opted not to renew her deal following its recent expiration. Her final album with UMG, Virgin, was released in June 2025. “I have been in that contract for a very, very long […]

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