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Mike Mills Rocks With R.E.M. Tribute In Indiana

R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction (photo: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images). R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills made a surprise appearance last night (March 17) with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy’s R.E.M. tribute project during their Lifes Rich Pageant tour finale at the Bluebird in Bloomington, In., meaning that each of the group’s four original members joined […]

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JAŸ-Z Books Yankee Stadium For Anniversary Gigs

JAŸ-Z in June 2025 (photo: Jose Breton / Pics Action / NurPhoto via Getty Images). A day after announcing his return to the live stage while backed by the Roots at their Roots Picnic on May 30 in Philadelphia, JAŸ-Z has revealed even bigger plans.The rap superstar, who has rarely performed in public since concluding his 4.44 Tour in late 2017, will play July 10-11 at New York’s Yankee Stadium. […]

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Afghan Whigs Move Into A New ‘House’

(photo: John Curley) Afghan Whigs are previewing their as-yet-unannounced new Royal Cream/BMG album with the single “House of I,” which is out now. It’s the Greg Dulli-led group’s first original music since the 2022 album How Do You Burn?“House of I” was produced and mixed by Dulli and former Blind Melon member Christopher Thorn. It was tracked at Dulli’s New Orleans studio Marigny Sound, while additional touches were put to tape […]

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Failure Finds A Different ‘Way’ On Latest Single

(photo: Lindsey Byrnes) Failure tips its hat in a goth-y direction on “A Way Down,” the second single from its upcoming album Location Lost. As previously reported, the set will be released April 24 on the band’s own Failure Records imprint through band manager Blaze James’ new Arduous Records label and Virgin Music Group.Group member Ken Andrews says “A Way Down” is “an homage to two bands who actually got […]

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Peter Frampton Rocks With Morello, H.E.R., Crow

(photo: Austin Wild) Peter Frampton’s first album of new rock material since 2010 will feature guest turns from Tom Morello, H.E.R., Graham Nash, Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and saxophonist Bill Evans. Carry the Light was produced and co-written with Frampton’s son Julian and will be released May 15 on UMe.The lead track is “Buried Treasures,” which the 75-year-old Frampton named after the long-running all-Petty […]

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Ed O’Brien Plots Solo LP, 2027 Radiohead Tour

Ed O'Brien (photo: Steve Gullick). Following a late 2025 reunion tour with Radiohead after a seven-year hiatus, guitarist Ed O’Brien has wrapped his second solo album, the Paul Epworth-produced Blue Morpho, which will be out May 22 on Transgressive. Its title track is can be sampled below.O’Brien made the album in the midst of the worst period of depression of his life. Per a press release, he “began a daily […]

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