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Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl Edition Of ‘Chris Cornell’ Box Set Out Now
Due to overwhelming demand for the 2018 pressing of the original box set collection, fans now have another chance to celebrate the recorded legacy of musical icon and singer/songwriter Chris Cornell,...
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20 Unforgettable Musical Events Of The 2010s
With the 2010s coming to a close, it’s time to look back at the most memorable musical events of the decade. Profound technological developments, genres colliding into one another and towering icons...
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Beck, Common, St Vincent To Perform At Prince Grammy Tribute Concert
Beck, Common, St Vincent, Alicia Keys, John Legend and Usher will perform at a special Prince Grammy tribute concert, which is set to take place after the 2020 Grammy Awards and air on television later...
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New Books On Prince, A-ha And Oasis Set For Publication
New books about legendary rock and pop stars Prince, A-ha and Oasis are set for publication via This Day In Music books. The 270-page hardback edition of Prince – The Day I Was There was written by...
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Beck, Sheila E And More Pay Tribute To Prince At Grammy Tribute
In January, some of the biggest names in music teamed up with The Recording Academy to honour the work and life of Prince. Hosted by actress and comedian Maya Rudolph, Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute...
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Montreux Jazz Festival 2020 Cancelled Due to Coronavirus Crisis
The 2020 Montreux Jazz Festival, one of Europe’s best-known and longest-running live music events, has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Though the Swiss Federal Council announced this...
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Beck, Common, St. Vincent Among The Stars At ‘Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy...
Featuring contributions from stars including Common, Beck, St. Vincent, Juanes, Foo Fighters, Mavis Staples and Jimmy Jam, ‘Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute To Prince’ aired last night, 21 April, on...
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Beck Cancels UK And European Tour Due To Coronavirus Crisis
Beck has announced the cancellation of his forthcoming UK and European ‘Hyperspace’ tour due to the coronavirus pandemic. The US musician’s tour was set to take in dates at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall,...
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Prince
“I named my son Prince because I wanted him to do everything I wanted to do.” So said Prince’s father, John L Nelson, in 1991. By that point, however, Prince had exceeded everyone’s expectations –...
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Queen Radio Channel Launched By SiriusXM
Launched today through global satellite radio station SiriusXM, the Queen radio channel will encompass the legendary band’s sterling song craft, virtuoso musicality, outrageous glamour, and colossal...
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SiriusXM To Celebrate Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix And More For International...
SiriusXM is celebrating International Guitar Month this April with a new, limited-engagement channel, SiriusXM Guitar Greats (Channel 105), saluting the greatest guitarists in history, including Eric...
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10 Things We Learned From ‘Bitchin’: The Sound And Fury Of Rick James’
Both on and off the stage, Rick James was a flamboyant and larger-than-life character who lived fast, partied hard, and made some amazing music during a fertile ten-year period between 1978 and 1988....
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Best Male Rock Singers: A Top 100 Countdown Of Legendary Vocalists
What makes a truly legendary rock singer? Certainly, stage presence and the ability to whip the largest of gatherings into a frenzy are key ingredients, but there’s more to the best male rock singers...
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Top 80s Pop Stars In Music – The True Superstars
Take a look at any 80s pop star and you immediately recognize that these artists were simply different. The best 80s pop songs buzzed with a manic, bright energy that fit perfectly with a decade when...
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Best ‘SNL’ Musical Performances: 14 Unmissable Live Appearances
“Live from New York, it’s Saturday night…” For a period, the most exciting place on a Saturday night was in front of the TV screen, as Saturday Night Live featured some of the best musical performances...
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Polo And Pan’s ‘Reverb Shop’ Officially Launches
Music gear marketplace Reverb continues to make noise in the New Year, and now they’re inviting fans to 2023’s biggest dance party: The Official Polo & Pan Reverb Shop. A wide range of gear has...
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The Game-Changing ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Of Every Decade
Following the anniversary of the release of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, much of the celebration and discussion centers on its role as an influential force in music history. Even...
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The Most Misunderstood Political Songs Ever: 10 Tracks You Didn’t Get
Sometimes a political anthem is just a political anthem. But there have been many cases over the years where the songwriter’s intentions get lost in translation, no matter how hard he or she tries to...
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Irish Singer- Songwriter Sinead O’Connor Dead At 56
Sinéad O’Connor, the highly-acclaimed, but outspoken Irish singer-songwriter with a singular voice, who shot to stardom in the early 90s with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” has passed...
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The Most Surprising Musical Friendships
Musicians: they’re just like us. They have friendships, fallouts, romances, and make small talk at parties. When it comes to the music industry, it’s always been quite small, which makes it inevitable...
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DIY Music: How Musicians Did It For Themselves
From cave tunes to thrash punk, country blues to the early days of hip-hop, the urge to make music, using whatever is at hand, is a constant in human behavior. Percussion instruments created from...
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Rise Of The Machines: How Technology Shaped Music
Listen to it today, you might think “it’s just a dude playing the organ.” And while you’d expect a record company to be trying to promote an artist, it perhaps seemed premature for Blue Note to be...
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Don’t You Forget About Me: Why 80s Music Is Cooler Than You Think
Is it possible to bully a decade? The 80s sure seems to have an eternal “Kick Me” sign on its back. Can someone help an epoch out and pull that thing off, please? For those of you haven’t been paying...
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Fight For Your Right: The Battle Over Music Censorship
Unlikely as this now may seem, there was a time, not long ago, when you couldn’t say anything naughty on a record. In fact, you couldn’t even imply anything naughty unless you were especially clever...
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The Filthy Fifteen: Censorship, Gore And The Parental Advisory Sticker
It has been decades since 15 songs – the so-called “Filthy Fifteen” – were declared obscene in America. The designation of a Filthy Fifteen was part of a backlash campaign that ended with the...
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10 One-Man Bands Who Didn’t Need Anyone Else
With one-man bands, it’s probably best to erase the image of chimney-sweeper Dick Van Dyke prancing about in the movie Mary Poppins. Instead, think of talented multi-instrumentalists such as Stevie...
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Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser Gets Asteroid Named In Her Honor
Cocteau Twins’ former lead singer Elizabeth Fraser now has an asteroid named after her, courtesy of the International Astronomical Union. Fraser’s label 4AD Records shared the news on Instagram,...
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The 30 Best Music Videos From The 80s
Not since the advent of radio had there been such a powerful tool to make or break artists’ careers than music television. The 80s saw MTV and VH1 become the new jukebox for a whole generation of music...
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The 25 Most Iconic Album Covers Of All Time
Truly iconic album covers don’t just define an album, they define an era, a generation, and, in some cases, an entire musical genre. Sometimes they do all three: what is The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s...
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Say It Loud: How Music Changes Society
Songs are such powerful things: they can reassure, soothe, inspire and educate us – and that’s just for starters. Perhaps one reason for this is because they are performed by real people, human...
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The Best Funk Albums Ever: 40 Classic Records
The best funk albums ever made have one thing in common: They make you want to get down. Over the years, plenty of artists have excelled in the genre: James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Rick James....
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Best Psychedelic Albums: 30 Mind-Expanding Records
Look up the word “psychedelic” in the dictionary, and one of the first definitions will be “mind-expanding.” That’s what all of the best psychedelic albums have in common. Most were made during the...
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‘The Woman In Red’: Stevie Wonder Hits The Hollywood Heights
In the world of R&B in 1984, who could halt the seemingly unstoppable Prince? As the superstar continued an incredible five-month (purple) reign over the soul album chart that had started in July...
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‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’: Bonnie Raitt Gets The Luck Of The Draw
Bonnie Raitt’s distinguished career has never been about singles success, but on December 14, 1991 she finally did something she’d never managed in a 20-year recording year to that point. As her 11th...
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The Sound Of Film Musicals: How Songs Shaped Showbusiness On The Silver Screen
Film musicals are one of the most quintessentially American art forms, and one that was eventually exported around the world. Westerns originated from dime novels about cowboys, but musicals developed...
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The Best Guitar Solos: 108 Hair-Raising Moments
There are plenty of ways to play a great guitar solo: You can make jaws drop by shredding for minutes on end, or you can do a simple but unforgettable bit that makes a great song even greater. We’ve...
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Best Power Ballads: 45 Lighters-In-The-Air Classics
Ah, the power ballad: 80s radio – and most of our love lives – would have been a lot less colorful without it. This list of the 45 best power ballads is drawn mainly from that era, but we’ve also...
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The Raucous World Of Rock’n’Roll Movies
Musicians have been playing versions of themselves on film since the early talkies, and cinema’s long history of rock’n’roll movies ranges across studio features (including all those Elvis Presley...
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The Best Super Bowl Halftime Shows Of All Time
Each year, the annual Super Bowl attracts a massive audience at home and abroad, ranking second only to the UEFA Champions League final as the most-watched annual sporting event worldwide. Yet it’s not...
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Best Guitarists Of All Time: 75 Legendary Musicians
The guitar is the very backbone of rock – not to mention blues and country music – and the world is a better place to live in thanks to all the six-string geniuses that have come along. The best...
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New Orleans Music: From Mardi Gras To The Meters… And All That Jazz
From the moment you first hit New Orleans, the city’s musical history is impossible to avoid. Fly into Louis Armstrong International Airport – the world’s only major metropolitan airport named after a...
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Record Labels Run By Musicians: 10 Artists Who Did It Their Way
Come the age of the superstar recording artist, it didn’t take long for those in the spotlight to want to take matters into their own hands. Cannier musicians began to take the initiative and, before...
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The Best BRIT Awards Live Performances Of All Time
It may not have the universal appeal of the illustrious Grammy Awards, but the annual British Record Industry Trusts Show Awards (aka the BRITs) remains the UK’s most prestigious music awards ceremony,...
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Best Female Drummers: An Essential Top 25 Countdown
Female drummers have been around since at least the 19th century. Consider the English folk ballad “Female Drummer” (covered by Steeleye Span and others), in which the title character disguises her...
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The 15 Most Famous Alter Egos In Music History
More than a stage name, musicians have been creating multiple identities as part of their performance for centuries. For some, it was only for an album. When The Beatles wanted to retire their mop-top...
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How To Write A Catchy Song: Anatomy Of An Earworm
You could spend hours dissecting what turns a song into the perfect earworm. But we can cut the whole thing short by noting what happens when we say two simple words: “Bad Romance.” We know what just...
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‘Addicted To Love’: America Couldn’t Get Enough Of Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer had been appearing on record for fully 17 years, and making his own albums for a dozen, when he became the new sensation of the MTV generation. In the first week of May 1986, as he...
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Best 1984 Albums: 63 Records You Need To Hear
While 1984 was rich with synth-driven pop albums (think Madonna’s Like a Virgin, New Edition’s self-titled LP, and Wham!’s Make It Big), it was also a watershed year for punk, hardcore, and metal, with...
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Head Out On The Highway: The 25 Best Road Trip Songs
The requirement for any good road trip is great songs. Whether you’re embarking on a solo trip down the highway or gathering for a vacation with friends and family, you’re going to need some tunes to...
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Sometimes It Snows In April: In Loving Memory Of Prince
The death of Prince at his recording studio, Paisley Park, on April 21, 2016 robbed us of an irreplaceable, world-class artist. The hugely influential artist, songwriter and producer had been a unique...
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