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Spiritualized Announces First New Album In Six Years, Shares Two Songs

1:43pm June 11, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

J. Spaceman made his new Spiritualized album, And Nothing Hurt, entirely in his east London home. But the first two singles, "A Perfect Miracle" and "I'm Your Man," sound every bit as grand.

An undated portrait of Danny Kirwan, a guitarist during Fleetwood Mac's earliest years. Kirwan died at age 68 on June 8.

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Fleetwood Mac's 'Forgotten Hero,' Guitarist Danny Kirwan, Has Died

1:09pm June 11, 2018

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The guitarist who helped define the band's early, bluesy sound, but who was fired from the band in 1972 and was homeless for many years, died Friday at age 68.

Lorraine Gordon, backstage at her club, the Village Vanguard in New York City. Gordon died on Sunday at age 95.

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Lorraine Gordon, Guardian Of Legendary Jazz Club, Dies At 95

4:54pm June 09, 2018

by Lara Pellegrinelli

The owner of the revered Village Vanguard in New York City — and a champion of generations of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk — died Saturday at age 95.

"There's a lot of very inspirational people I've had the pleasure to work with but there are also a few I wish I'd never met," M. Ward says.

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M. Ward Surprise-Releases New Album: Hear 'What A Wonderful Industry'

12:51pm June 08, 2018

by Emily Abshire

M. Ward opens up his diary in a 35-minute album about the "cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals" he's met in the music industry.

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Tentative Settlement Reached In Video Of Baby Grooving To Prince Song

6:29am June 08, 2018

by Andrew Limbong

In 2007, a mom posted a YouTube video of her baby boy jumping up and down to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy." Everyone loved the video except the record label. Lawsuits followed.

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Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of The Last Poets, in London on September 12, 1984. The poet, known as the Godfather of Hip-Hop, died on June 6, 2018 at the age of 74.

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Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: Bidding Farewell To The Schoolyard Bard

8:42pm June 07, 2018

by dream hampton

The writer dream hampton recalls how The Last Poets' music, and Jalal Mansur Nuriddin's work in particular, interwove with the lives that surrounded her as a child, in a disappearing Detroit.

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Prince, With Just A Piano And A Sniffle, Interprets 'Mary Don't You Weep'

12:14pm June 07, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

On the late legend's 60th birthday, his estate announced a new album of barebones recordings featuring just him and a piano.

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Remembering Prince On What Would Have Been His 60th Birthday

6:45am June 07, 2018

On this day in 1993, Prince changed his name to that symbol that stood for Love. The Artist formerly known as Prince ended his contract with Warner Brothers in 2000 and then he was just Prince again.

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Facebook's new features provide new ways for users to add music to their original videos. But is any of it fun?

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Facebook's New Features Encourage Users To Telegraph Their Music Taste

5:36pm June 06, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

Two updates announced Tuesday, early toe-dips that Facebook promises are only the beginning, give members of its gargantuan user base ways of sharing the music they like. But is any of this ... fun?

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon has teamed up with Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National to form a new band (Big Red Machine) and an artists' collective called PEOPLE.

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Justin Vernon And Aaron Dessner Have A New Band — And A New Way To Listen

5:30pm June 06, 2018

by Stephen Thompson

Hear four songs by Big Red Machine, which blends Vernon's oblique and poetic words with a busy collage of sounds. Then get lost in a rabbit hole of never-before-heard music.