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Lots of updates in Kings of Leon land! The Nashville rockers, who recently released their best album in awhile, Mechanical Bull, have just dropped a brand new music video for “Beautiful War.” The six and a half minute epic is something of a short film, revolving around themes of impulsive actions and their repercussions; a compelling, fun…
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It’s been a pretty crazy couple of weeks for Brittany Howard, huh? The Alabama Shakes (and Thunderbitch) frontwoman performed live in a Grammys ensemble that included Elton John last week. Though she and the band didn’t nab any of the three Grammys they were nominated for, this weekend they made their Saturday Night Live debut. And that’s…
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As we mentioned on Wednesday, the legendary Paul McCartney joined forces with the surviving members of Nirvana (and touring guitarist- practical shoe-in for permanent member had Kurt survived, Pat Smear) to perform at the 12-12-12 benefit concert for Hurricane Sandy relief at Madison Square Garden. Despite hope and speculation of a possible Nirvana or Beatles cover…
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The King of Brit Rock, Mick Jagger, will be hosting the season finale of Saturday Night Live this weekend, and he will also be performing. Performing alongside the Stones legend will be Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, & Jeff Beck. I don’t really know what is going to happen with those cats all together, but…
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Nashville’s Jack White made his way to New York this past weekend to play his new songs for the masses on the Saturday Night Live stage. We’ve all heard that “Love Interruption” track that dropped a few weeks ago. Well, he gave up another track from the upcoming Blunderbuss record (due out April 24th)…
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Things are starting to get nauseating for young Lana Del Rey (and frankly it’s getting funny for the rest of us) as the swirling commentary continues over her performance on Saturday Night Live last week. Things really got heated up when NBC Anchor Brian Williams publicly ripped Del Rey’s performance in an email to…
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Did you see Saturday Night Live this past weekend? If you missed it (like I almost always do), then you didn’t get to see Lana Del Rey’s first real performance for a national audience. As I mentioned in a News and Tracks post a couple of weeks ago, she is about as buzzy as…
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You heard that Radiohead spent the last week or so in NYC, right? They played Fallon, Colbert Report, and Saturday Night Live. Oh yeah, they also played two VERY SOLD OUT nights at The Roseland Ballroom. I wanted to compile all the videos of those performances into a single post…. Well, I am obviously…
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Since the whole music world doesn’t revolve around SoundLand, let’s talk about some other mid-day news that might be exciting to you. Radiohead Numerous outlets are reporting of a few Radiohead shows on this side of the pond in New York. Lots of rumors have been swirling that the English “league of their own”…