Rock Music

Bob Dylan and Neil Young wrapped up their co-headlining show at Kilkenny, Ireland’s Nowlan Park Sunday evening by performing “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” marking the first time the two have shared a stage since a show at New York’s Roseland Ballroom in 1994. Quality video has yet to surface, but Young posted a segment of the song on his Instagram page you can see right here.



Young, meanwhile, played the song with Willie Nelson four times between 1995 and 2018. The first time he did it, however, was the 1975 SNACK Benefit at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Sharing vocals with him was none other than Dylan. They had been admiring each other’s work for many years at that point, but it was the first time they’d ever played together. Whether or not they meant to mirror their first onstage encounter by playing the song again at Kilkenny is unclear.

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Tame Impala

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

Chance the Rapper and Calboy

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Chilidish Gambino

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Perry and Etty Farrell

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

21 Savage

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

Janelle Monae

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Alec Benjamin

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

21 Savage

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Alesso

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Sigrid

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone
• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Death Cab for Cutie

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

SNAILS

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Joe Talbot of Idles

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

Japanese Breakfast

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone
• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

The Nude Party

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

Calboy

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Chevelle

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• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Julian Casablancas of the Strokes

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

SABA

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Fitz and the Tantrums

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

King Princess

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Matt Shultz of Cage the Elephant

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

Hozier

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• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Normani

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

Lil Baby

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

FKJ

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

Fitz and the Tantrums

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

SABA

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

The Chainsmokers

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

H.E.R.

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

FKJ

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Sacha Lecca for Rolling Stone

Ghostmane

• Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago, August 1-4, 2019
• Koury Angelo for Rolling Stone

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The Trump administration weighed in on the legal battle over “Stairway to Heaven” this week, with the Department of Justice siding with Led Zeppelin in their copyright dispute with the estate of late Spirit guitarist Randy (California) Wolfe.

Although an appeal of the lawsuit against Led Zeppelin is still ongoing, the Justice Department filed an amicus this week in support of previous judge’s ruling that stated that the copyrights of musical compositions prior to 1972 were only protected as sheet music; in 1972, Congress changed the law to protect sound recordings, NBC News reports.

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Quavo hits the road, takes to the skies, sails the seas and pretty much employs all modes of transportation in his new video for “Virgil.” The DJ Durel-produced track appears on the recently released Control the Streets, Volume 2 compilation from Atlanta-based label Quality Control.

The new visual finds a bejeweled Quavo smoking and traveling the world via private jet, limo, on a boat and via bicycle and features scenic footage ranging from chilling poolside to hanging in the Netherlands. A serene flute melody ushers in the track as the Migos rapper delivers his laidback rhymes. “I can’t get down/I gotta get up/Yeah, I’m in the pothole, whippin’ a knot ho,” he raps on the hook. “Make ’em go eat it up/Straight out the basement whippin’ Picasso/Young nigga heating up.”

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Post Malone has revealed the eclectic guest list for his upcoming album Hollywood’s Bleeding, with the rapper recruiting Halsey, Travis Scott, Meek Mill and Ozzy Osbourne for his new LP.

Future, SZA, Swae Lee (“Sunflower“), Young Thug (“Goodbyes“) and a pair of our favorite babies, Lil Baby and Da Baby, will also feature on Hollywood’s Bleeding when the album arrives next Friday, September 6th.
Post Malone recently shared “Circles” from Hollywood’s Bleeding, the follow-up to his 2018 Number One charting Beerbongs & Bentleys. In late December, Malone dropped his “Wow” single, which will also serve as the closing track on the 17-song new album.

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Strawberry Field, the Salvation Army children’s home in Liverpool near John Lennon’s childhood home that inspired the Beatles’ 1967 classic “Strawberry Fields Forever,” opened to the public for the first time Saturday.

The property – a popular tourist destination for Beatles fans that draws a reported 60,000 people a year – had been off-limits for decades, with the grounds walled off by a brick perimeter and a red metal gate.
However, starting today, the gates would open to the public permanently, with the Salvation Army converting the on-site building – which shuttered in 2005 after the original children’s home there was demolished in 1973 – into a visitors’ center focused on Lennon’s Liverpudlian youth.

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Do you remember? In the case of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September,” it seems the answer is a resounding “yes.” The funk classic saw a massive spike in sales and streams over the weekend — enough for it to land at Number 73 on Wednesday’s daily Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, which offers a preview of the chart that will be finalized next Monday.

The song, which was originally released in 1978, has seen an increase in both sales and streams throughout the month of September. But things got particularly heated on the 21st, the fateful night referenced by Maurice White in the song’s opening line. Early reports from Alpha Data, which supplies data for the RS Charts, indicate that fans cued up “September” to the tune of 2.5 million streams on Saturday alone, a 225 percent increase from the day prior. That figure includes over 885,000 on-demand audio streams. (Finalized numbers will be released on Monday’s charts.)

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Maluma Welcomes Jennifer Lopez to the Stage at Madison Square Garden

Colombian pop star Maluma sold out Madison Square Garden for his second time ever on Friday night, during the New York City stop on his 11:11 world tour. But not long before his big concert, he was spotted on Jennifer Lopez’s Instagram, rehearsing lines alongside Lopez and Owen Wilson for their upcoming movie, Marry Me.

Lopez would later surprise Maluma fans at his Friday night show: dressed in a shimmering floor-length gown, she emerged onstage through a trap door, with a microphone in hand. Together she and Maluma regaled fans with a performance of her 1999 duet, “No Me Ames” — which originally co-starred Lopez’s ex-husband, Puerto Rican salsa king Marc Anthony. Sporting a classy gold blazer, Maluma went from reggaeton playboy to somber balladeer; but he regrettably stumbled over a few of Anthony’s lines, which Lopez tactfully recovered by singing them herself.

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The Black Madonna has pulled out of her performance at Las Vegas’ Intersect Festival after the DJ learned of the music and tech fest’s connection to Amazon Web Services.

On Thursday, a “furious” Black Madonna turned to social media to tell fans she was unaware of Amazon’s sponsorship of Intersect when she signed on for the December 6th and 7th festival; “What the fuck is this Amazon shit? I absolutely didn’t agree to this. Oh hell no,” the DJ wrote.

Two days later, the Black Madonna formally announced her exit from Intersect in a long statement where she criticized Amazon’s business practices and associations.

“I will not be performing at Intersect Festival due to their relationship with Amazon Web Services who have business ties with ICE and Homeland Security,” the Black Madonna wrote.

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Bon Jovi have unveiled new song “Unbroken,” which the band wrote for Josh Aronson’s documentary, To Be of Service. The film follows war veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the positive impact of being paired with service dogs. The film will screen in several theaters around the U.S. in November.

The song details experiences and emotions from a young soldier’s perspective. “God of mercy/God of light/Save your children from this life,” Jon Bon Jovi sings. “Hear these words, this humble plea/For I have seen the suffering/And with this prayer I’m hoping/That we can be unbroken.”

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