Madonna accepted the advocate for change award at the 2019 Glaad media awards, and gave an emotional speech about how seeing gays in Detroit in 1970s for the first time in life changed her life: “For the first time I saw men kissing men, girls dressed like boys, boys wearing hot pants, insane, incredible dancing […]

The centre of the song is The Weeknd, he got a helping hand from SZA, and Travis Scott, and it's taken from 'Game of Thrones' album. Anthony Mandler directed the visuals for 'Power Is Power', and it has 1,3 million views on YouTube. It's taken from the 'For The Throne (Music Inspired by the HBO […]

“It is not an inviting idea … and then, yes, there will be the notion of coming to Europe and the ease of travelling from one country to the next. That is part of what makes touring possible for lots of artists,” Kamasi Washington told the Guardian about what happens with UK exiting the European […]

A great read in the Guardian - part-biography, part-interview with the National, starting point being their Paris concert held on the very same evening the Notre-Dame burned. Multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Bryce Dessner, a Parisian now, was having second thoughts about playing (they did), and later concluded - “When so many institutions are crumbling, basic concepts of liberalism, […]

"City Pop" was a type of soft rock/AOR/funk that was tremendously popular in Japan in the age of disco and early new wave. 'Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986' chronicles this musical positivity, with slick beats and gleaming grooves providing the perfect soundtrack - PopMatters presents the latest Light in the Attic […]

Cricket Blue interweave the fantastical with very real questions of emotional and philosophical value, PopMatters says about Vermont folk band's full-length album, 'Serotinalia'. Their new song 'Psalm' builds through moments of quiet and fervor alike as the narrator's moral compass comes under self-interrogation. Listen to it here.

Metalachi are mariachi band from California, consisting of five siblings born in Mexico, and they are known for their covers of famous rock and metal songs. Loudwire made a list of 11 of their covers, including 'Sweet Child o' Mine' by Guns N' Roses, 'Raining Blood' by Slayer, 'Ace of Spades' by Motorhead...

At a ceremony on Saturday, Wu-Tang Clan were honored by having the Park Hill area of Staten Island officially renamed "The Wu-Tang Clan District". The rap stars, community leaders, special guests, were on hand for a renaming ceremony, as well as Councilwoman Debi Rose who said: “This is a great day where we have an […]

Measuring by the number of performances Melbourne is the most musical city in the world with well over 73,000 performances a year, according to the World Cities Culture Forum. It is followed by New York, with 36,192 performances, Paris with 31,375 and London with 22,828. Then again, Guardian says, maybe it doesn’t come down to […]

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