Semi Precious Weapons Strip Down for Yahoo Music

New York City glam-rockers Semi Precious Weapons have some very high-profile fans — Lady Gaga Katy Perry and Kesha among them — but in many ways they're still a cult group Thankfully their diehard fans (famous or otherwise) have sustained them during a four-year recording hiatus (the unfortunate result of...

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See Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson Fly a Plane in a Music Fest Dogfight

A day before his band Iron Maiden performed at England's Sonisphere festival this year vocalist Bruce Dickinson took to the air in a World War I–era fighter plane to put on a 12-minute dogfight over metal fans' heads He put on the show with the Great War Display Team of...

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19 Worst Things About Woodstock '99

Woodstock '99 was supposed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "peace love and happiness" Instead the Rome New York festival earned the infamous distinction of "the day the Nineties died" There were tons of contributing factors that made the fest the anti-Woodstock Organizers trying to wring every last dollar from...

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Chance the Rapper Covers 'Arthur' Theme Song With Wyclef Jean

Nineties nostalgia has hit a new high mark Rising MC Chance the Rapper known for his penchant for the absurd has released a boisterous ebullient cover of the theme song to the PBS children's show Arthur Find Out Where Chance the Rapper's 'Acid Rap' Ranked on Our List of 2013's 10...

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Randy Travis Releases 'Worry'-Free Video

The latest video from Randy Travis showcases the legendary singer's vocals on a cover of the 1961 Marty Robbins hit "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" It's a track from Travis' Influence Vol 2 The Man I Am which will be released August 19th The clip opens with a woman who is...

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Katy Perry Gets Hyper-Stylized and Hedonistic in 'This Is How We Do'

Katy Perry enters a hyper-stylized pastel-soaked pleasure dome in the wild new clip for "This Is How We Do" the latest from the pop star's 2013 LP Prism The clip opens with a old man staring at a portrait of Perry in profile before zooming in on the frame to...

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Brad Paisley Recruits Colt Ford for 'River Bank' Remix

On his new album Thanks for Listening which debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard's all-genre Top 200 Albums chart country-rap pioneer Colt Ford recruited artists like Keith Urban Justin Moore and Jerrod Niemann to lend their talents But it's Ford who finds himself in the role of guest vocalist...

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Flashback: Katy Perry Performs 'Search Me' on Christian TV

Before she kissed a girl and liked it Katy Perry – then known as Katy Hudson – released an eponymous Christian album in 2001 that failed to gain any commercial success Perry has said that the album "reached literally maybe 100 people" The Unbreakable Katy Perry Inside Rolling Stone's New Issue That...

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Watch Arcade Fire Cover Creedence Clearwater Revival in California

Arcade Fire have added yet another cover to their growing repertoire busting out Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Hey Tonight" during their Wednesday night show at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View California Via Pitchfork multi-instrumetnalist Richard Reed handled lead vocal duties delivering the track in a raggy howl that would do...

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Feds Charge Man in Drug-Related Death at Electric Zoo 2013

Nearly a year after the organizers of the New York City dance music festival Electric Zoo cancelled the final day of the three-day event due to two drug-related deaths the Drug Enforcement Agency has tracked down a group of friends who allegedly sold the MDMA pills that killed one of...

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Sam Hunt to Drop 'X2C' Before Debut Album's Release

Sam Hunt whose breakout hit "Leave the Night On" is currently in the Top 25 and climbing will release his full-length debut album for MCA Nashville on October 27th Country's 15 Highest Drug Odes One of Rolling Stone Country's 10 New Artists You Need to Know this summer the Georgia native has...

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Lorde to Curate, Release New Single for New 'Hunger Games' Soundtrack

Lorde will curate and release the lead single for the upcoming soundtrack to The Hunger Games Mockingjay — Part 1 which opens in theaters on November 21st The soundtrack is also scheduled for release this fall via Republic Records though a release date for both the soundtrack and Lorde's new...

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Hear Smokey Robinson and Elton John's 'Tracks of My Tears' - Premiere

Singing with the Miracles and as a solo artist Smokey Robinson has been the voice behind some of the greatest records of the past half-century On a new LP due August 19th the legend is revisiting 11 those records and re-imagining them as duets adding in voices like those of...

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Manny Roth, Cafe Wha? Owner and Pivotal 1960s Rock Figure, Dead at 95

Manny Roth founder of the New York City club Cafe Wha? – where Bob Dylan Jimi Hendrix Bruce Springsteen and more played in their formative years – has died He was 95 The Truth Behind Bob Dylan's First Encounter With Cafe Wha? "He was a legend in discovering talent and he will...

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Rob Zombie Talks Insane Clowns and Crowdfunding His New Film '31'

Rob Zombie who has directed movies like Devil's Rejects and two Halloween films was uncharacteristically uneasy at first with the idea of crowdfunding a movie But that went away once he realized it was a quid-pro-quo tradeoff On Thursday the director launched a campaign to fund his next movie 31...

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Jarvis Cocker to Judge Pulp Karaoke Contest in New York City

Jarvis Cocker will be on hand to help judge a Pulp karaoke contest in New York City following a special screening of Florian Habicht's new documentary about the Britpop outfit Pulp A Film About Life Death and Supermarkets on August 7th The Guardian reports 100 Best Albums of the 1990s Pulp...

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Dick Wagner, Guitarist for Alice Cooper and Lou Reed, Dead at 71

Dick Wagner who played guitar with Alice Cooper Lou Reed and Kiss at various points in his career died on July 30th after being hospitalized in Scottsdale Arizona for respiratory failure Two weeks earlier he had undergone a cardiac procedure according to Detroit Free Press He was 71 How Dick Wagner...

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Miranda Lambert to Co-Write and Star in Feature Film

Add screenwriter and movie actress to Miranda Lambert's résumé According to Deadline the "Somethin' Bad" singer is working with music video director Trey Fanjoy ("Somethin' Bad" "The House That Built Me") on a proposed theatrical film Miranda Lambert Carrie Underwood Are Breaking 'Bad' in New Video Presently titled Something in the Water...

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Lucy Hale Films 'Lie' on the Opry Stage

Lucy Hale's new "Lie a Little Better" video is a big step towards separating her Hollywood and Nashville lives Instead of acting out the lyrics to the clever love song the Pretty Little Liars star chose to film the majority of the music video on the hallowed stage of the...

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Hunter Hayes Gets Inked in New Video

Hunter Hayes recently gave Rolling Stone Country a peek behind the scenes at the filming of his new music video for "Tattoo" This week Hayes released the finished product which features the singer-guitarist rocking out in front of an enormous boombox and charming a female costar Hunter Hayes' 'Tattoo' Video Behind-the-Scenes...

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Beastie Boys' Mike D on how Grunge Killed 'Big, Fluffy Long Hair'

The Beastie Boys' Mike D has been revisiting the 1990s as part of a video series for Vanity Fair with the rapper touching on everything from the Biggie/2Pac beef to the Arsenio Hall Show On Wednesday Mike D briefly touches on the grunge scene that changed the look and sound...

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Morrissey Denies Former Bodyguard's Violent Allegations

It's not every day Morrissey lands on TMZ but thanks to an alleged murder-for-hire plot lobbied by the laconic singer's alleged "head of security" Moz is dealing with some legal issues today that make his tour-cancelling illness seem benign In a lawsuit a man named Bradley Steyn says Morrissey hired...

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Brad Paisley Unloads His 'Trunk' Tracks

Brad Paisley has revealed more details (including the full track listing below) about his upcoming album Moonshine in the Trunk And since the info came in a press release from his record label Sony Music Nashville it's not likely to ruffle as many feathers as his series of mischievous Twitter...

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Danielle Bradbery Covers A Great Big World

Danielle Bradbery is going under cover for her fans Over the next seven weeks voters will elect a cover song — from any genre allowed — that the 18-year-old singer will perform and post every Tuesday on Vevo This week the fans chose "Say Something" by A Great Big World...

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Lana Del Rey Plays a Bride Without a Groom in 'Ultraviolence' Video

Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence" video is nothing like what Stanley Kubrick or A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess who coined the term the singer used for the title of this song and her album could have dreamed up Instead it's an innocuous bridal fantasy in which Del Rey wanders around...

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Hear Robin Gibb's Solo Take on Bee Gees' 'I Am the World' - Premiere

Between 2006 and 2008 a few years before cancer took his life in May 2012 Robin Gibb returned to the studio to record what would have been a largely autobiographical final LP Now Gibb's wife Dwina and son RJ are releasing the best of those sessions – and a few...

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The Unbreakable Katy Perry: Inside Rolling Stone's New Issue

"I'm not like a crazy 'I'm gonna die for my fans' type" Katy Perry says in her new Rolling Stone cover story which hits stands on Friday "Some people are so dramatic about it and you're like 'Honestly you're not the Second Coming You're just an entertainer!'… I'm very grateful...

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Beck Details 'Telephone Game' of Getting Artists for 'Song Reader'

"There's no original version" Beck says of the 20 songs he included in his Song Reader collection of sheet music published by McSweeney's in late 2012 So when people perform them "it's an interesting game of Telephone" Now with the recent release of an all-star Song Reader album Beck's set...

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Kristofferson, Haggard, Underwood Named for ACM Honors

The ACM Honors — a continuation of this year's ACM Awards to hand out the Academy of Country Music's off-camera awards — has announced its honorees Kris Kristofferson is one of four songwriters receiving the Poet's Award Merle Haggard is the recipient of the Crystal Milestone Award and Carrie Underwood...

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Garth Brooks Taps Atlanta for Second Stop on World Tour

Garth Brooks has always been partial to big reveals so it's no surprise he's announcing one show at a time for his big comeback tour Today's revelation Atlanta's Phillips Arena on September 19th Time Out 10 Artists Who Walked Away Georgia's capital city is the second stop on the Garth Brooks World...

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FBI Arrests Woman Allegedly Stalking Soundgarden's Chris Cornell

Late last week the FBI arrested 32-year-old Jessica Leigh Robbins of Tampa for allegedly harassing Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell online and charged her with stalking Tampa Bay Times reports that Cornell and his wife believed that Robbins entered their Miami home last year and more recently pulled their children out...

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Robert Plant 'Disappointed' in Jimmy Page and Led Zep Reunion Rumors

The odds of a Led Zeppelin reunion seem to be growing slimmer by the month In a new interview with Uncut (via NME) Robert Plant says he is "disappointed and baffled" by Jimmy Page and his attempts to fuel the reunion rumor mill Better off Led Jimmy Page's Most Savage Guitar...

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Kenny Chesney Makes a 'Believer' Out of Steve Spurrier

Kenny Chesney is moonlighting for ESPN again Teaming up with lauded Nashville filmmaker Shaun Silva the country star and avid football fan has co-produced a documentary on one of the most legendary NCAA figures of all time former Florida Gators and current South Carolina Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier See Where Kenny...

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Rape Alleged at Boston Area Keith Urban Concert

An 18-year-old Boston man has been charged with raping a 17-year-old fan at the Boston area stop of Keith Urban's Raise 'Em Up Tour The incident follows reports of 50 arrests at the concert held at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield Massachusetts In addition 46 concertgoers received medical treatment some...

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Two Remastered Big Star Records Will Be Back in Print This Fall

Big Star's influential first two albums 1972's #1 Record and 1974's Radio City which have been bundled together as a #1 Record/Radio City two-for-one album for years will once again be available to purchase as separate albums on September 2nd Stax Records which distributed the LPs via audio engineer John...

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Michelle Shocked Releases Silent Album, Names Songs After Music Execs

Folk provocateur Michelle Shocked is getting into the silent album business releasing an LP called Inaudible Woman comprising 11 tracks that boast no music and are mostly named for executives in the digital music world Billboard reports Michelle Shocked Not the First Artist to Betray Her Fanbase The move comes on the...

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Todd Snider Talks Meltdowns, Pot and Prine in New Road Tales Memoir

Todd Snider has bared his hard-living soul on such albums as 2004's East Nashville Skyline and his latest Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables But Snider a disciple of singer-songwriters like close friend John Prine saves his best stories for the stage entertaining crowds not just with his songs but with...

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Beastie Boys' Mike D: Tupac's Determination to Be Authentic Killed Him

Nearly two decades after a coastal feud left Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG dead the Beastie Boys' Mike D is still trying to make sense of it "It still boggles my mind" he told Vanity Fair in the interview below "It escalated so fast" Tupac's Final Words Revealed by Police Officer...

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Sara Evans: My 10 Favorite Duets

It's been more than 15 years since Sara Evans scored her first chart-topping hit with "No Place That Far" a country tearjerker featuring Vince Gill on backup vocals Since then she's collaborated on outside tracks with a few artists including the Warren Brothers and Brad Paisley but she waited until...

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Joe Nichols Cracks Up Concertgoers With Countrified Rap

You can take the boy out of Arkansas but you can't take the Arkansas out of the boy … even when he's covering a rap song A History of Hick-Hop The 27-Year-Old Story of Country Rap Country-to-the-core hitmaker Joe Nichols has started incorporating the 1992 Sir Mix-a-Lot song "Baby Got Back" into...

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Jesus Christ Sue-perstar: Lawsuits Launched Over Cancelled Musical

The cancellation of what would've been a truly bizarre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar is now the subject of a lawsuit between the Really Useful Group — Webber's production company — and Michael Cohl the main promoter behind the failed adaptation The New York...

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See Live Lollapalooza Sets From Outkast to Skrillex on Rolling Stone

For the tenth year in a row Lollapalooza will return to Chicago this weekend bringing its eclectic mix of artists and ephemera to Grant Park And once again the fest is taking pity on those who won't be able to make the trek to the Windy City for the rock...

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R. Kelly Kicked Off Ohio Music Festival Following Protests

R Kelly has decided not to perform at Columbus Ohio's Fashion Meets Music Festival following scrutiny from local press a radio station that withdrew its sponsorship and a band that backed out of its slot over the R&B singer's past legal strife and accusations of possessing child pornography Kelly was...

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Songwriter Spotlight: Jaren Johnston

Some country songwriters prefer to remain behind the scenes Others like Jaren Johnston are working musicians who front their own bands As the driving force behind the Cadillac Three (recently named one of Rolling Stone Country's "10 New Artists You Need To Know") Johnston has toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd cracked...

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TV on the Radio Tease New Album 'Seeds' With Colorful, Ethereal Video

TV on the Radio will put out their first record in three years Seeds in the fall their first since the 2011 death of their bassist Gerard Smith "We've been through a lot of stuff in the past few years that could have stopped the band cold" vocalist Tunde Adebimpe...

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Steven Van Zandt 'Finally' Cooks Up Star-Studded Darlene Love Album

E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt has begun putting together a record for Sixties pop hit-maker Darlene Love whose voice appeared on countless Phil Spector–produced singles like "He's a Rebel" and "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" Van Zandt says he promised her he'd make a record with her about three decades ago "depending...

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Luke Bryan Announces Farm Tour 2014

Luke Bryan will once again pay tribute to his peanut farming roots by taking some small town detours this fall The country superstar's sixth annual Farm Tour starts October 1st in Knoxville Tennessee hitting a handful of smaller Southeastern cities before wrapping October 11th in Macon Georgia A portion of...

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Classic Primus Lineup Reunites for Wild Willy Wonka Album, Tour, Candy

Prepare to enter a world of pure imagination this October as veteran thrash-funk eccentrics Primus release their eighth studio album a wall to (lickable) wall tribute to the 1971 musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory The clanging ill-angled LP titled Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble...

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Timbaland on New Missy Elliott Album: 'We Got the Bullet in the Gun'

It's been nearly a decade since Missy Elliott's last solo album 2005's The Cookbook but Timbaland says a new one may be on its way "It's coming" the rapper's longtime producer and songwriting partner tells Rolling Stone "It's on her She got the first single it's just a matter of...

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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Detail 'Magnificent' Collection of Duets

When Lady Gaga recalls her first meeting with golden-throated crooner Tony Bennett she still sounds impressed She had just performed a set of pop hits and a cover of Nat King Cole's "Orange Colored Sky" – "a jazz song" she points out – at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit gala...

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