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  Article Contributed by Sacks and Company | Published on Monday, May 24, 2021 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are back with a summer and fall tour. The extensive run of shows includes their annual shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre (a three-night run for the first time) as well as performances at Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival, Nashville’s First Bank Amphitheater, Raleigh’s Red Hat Amphitheater and more. The band will share the stage with The Marcus King Band, Margo Pric...

Former FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH drummer Jeremy Spencer spoke to "Drag The Waters: The Pantera Podcast" about his decision to remove all the previous...

Get tickets for We Came As Romans The Devil Wears Prada, Gideon, Dayseeker at Canton Hall in Dallas, TX on Sat, Feb 27, 2021 - 8:00PM at AXS.com

  Article Contributed by Sacks and Company | Published on Friday, January 22, 2021 On February 13, Nathaniel Rateliff will make his debut as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live.” Regina King will host the show. Rateliff’s latest single “Redemption,” written for the Apple Original film Palmer, comes on the heels of his celebrated 2020 solo album And It’s Still Alright (Stax Records). Listen to “Redemption” HERE. “Redemption” is featured in both the film and trailer...

Mike Ayerss book One Last Song: Conversations on Life, Death, and Music. (Jay Gabler/MPR) When I first started at Minnesota Public Radio, I worked at both The Current and our sister station, Classical MPR. Multiple times even during the few years I worked at the classical station, we heard from grateful listeners who reported that when family members were literally on their deathbeds, they chose to have Classical MPR playing as a final soundtrack. What would your final soundtrack...

Darlene Love performs at a Christmas tree lighting in New York City, 2010. (Andy Kropa/Getty Images) Count on an experienced performer like Darlene Love to save the hits for the end. Thats precisely what she does in her 1998 memoir My Name Is Love (buy now), which concludes with a list of the major songs shes performed on: "More hits than Elvis and the Beatles combined," she notes, imagining the narration over an infomercial about her life. Just the highlights include "Chain Gang...

You dont expect to get a lot of laughs from a book with a title like This Isnt Happening: Radioheads Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century (buy now). I had a literal LOL moment early on, though, when author Steven Hyden asked rhetorically, "Is it possible that I take Kid A way too seriously?" There is, of course, virtually zero chance that anyone who would even contemplate cracking a book about the music of the 2000s would accuse any critic of taking any Radiohead album, especially th...

Michelangelo Matoss Cant Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pops Blockbuster Year. (Jay Gabler/MPR) Michaelangelo Matos and I are almost exactly the same age, and we both grew up in Minnesota, but his childhood was privileged in a way mine wasnt: in 1984, he had a cassette deck that could record straight off the radio. Until I finally got a boom box in 87, I was consigned to holding our tape player up to the TV if I wanted to record the theme to Knight Rider or In the summer of 84, Mato...