The actress and musician, who first burst out in “Bye Bye Birdie” in 1963, is releasing a new album of old rock covers featuring guests like her “Tommy” co-star Pete Townshend.
Category: Pop and Rock Music
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Nora Forster, 80, Who Married (and Stayed Married to) a Sex Pistol, Dies
A German publishing heiress and music promoter, she settled in London in time for the 1970s punk-rock explosion and became the muse to its baddest boy.
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Record Shopping in New Jersey: A Playlist From a Fresh Haul
Thumbing through the crates at the Princeton Record Exchange, and rediscovering albums by Stevie Wonder, Linda Ronstadt, Broadcast and Merle Haggard.
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Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Kaytraminé, Blondshell, Yaeji and others.
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Live Music Is Roaring Back. But Fans Are Reeling From Sticker Shock.
Buying concert tickets has become a mess of high prices and surcharges, anxiety-inducing registrations and pervasive scalping as some of pop’s biggest acts hit the road again.
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The Friendship Harmonies of boygenius
How Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus’s side project has become a major part of their music — and their lore.
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Springsteen Comes Alive
With the E Street Band electrifying audiences on the road for the first time since 2016, listen to live versions of songs from the current tour.
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Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer
After more than two decades at the forefront of electronic dance music (while in a robot-style helmet), the French artist is releasing “Mythologies,” a score for traditional symphony orchestra.
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Morgan Wallen Makes It Four Weeks at No. 1 With ‘One Thing at a Time’
The country superstar’s latest album easily held off new releases by Lana Del Rey and Jimin of the K-pop group BTS.
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Seymour Stein, Record Biz Giant Who Signed Madonna, Dies at 80
With an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, he championed acts including the Ramones, Talking Heads and the Pretenders on his label Sire, and helped found the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71
Mr. Sakamoto, whose work with Yellow Magic Orchestra influenced electronic music, composed scores for “The Last Emperor” and “The Revenant.”