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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are both apprehensive about using artificial intelligence to make music. In a recent interview with BillboardRolling Stones' Glimmer Twins said they believed people should use AI only if they put their own thoughts into it, and anything else is lazy. “Obviously I don't want to be imitated by AI, vocally and instrumentally, and the band doesn't,” Jagger said. “I don't want people just putting stuff out there that can sound exactly like the Rolling Stones — I think that's obviously wrong. If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead. But it has to…

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A new music festival is heading to the Californian coast this September. Ocean Way Festival has announced its inaugural lineup, which will include headlining slots from the Killers and Olivia Dean. The Santa Monica-based festival takes place on Sept. 26 to Sept. 27. The festival will take place on the sands of Santa Monica Beach, marking the first major music festival on the iconic coastline. Alongside the headliners, Jack White, Alvvays, Sublime, Khruangbin, Hiatus Kaiyote, and Durand Jones & The Indications also appear on the bill. The lineup is rounded out with dance/electronic adjacent acts like SG Lewis, Blond:ish, and…

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In 2002, a new-to-Nashville Eric Church sat down to play a few songs at his first publishing meeting in town. And the executive there to listen hated every last one of them. Church, who had recently moved from his home state of North Carolina, had started compiling the tracks that would become his 2006 debut, Sinners Like Me. The 25-year-old was writing about pregnancy (“Two Pink Lines”), Merle Haggard (“Pledge Allegiance to the Hag”), and the death penalty (“Lightning”). No love songs, unless you count ones about unprotected teenage horniness. No bacchanalian bottomless party tunes, unless you count ones about…

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A new festival is coming to Santa Monica, with the Killers and Olivia Dean topping the inaugural bill. Ocean Way Festival—produced by the much-reviled Coachella organizer Goldenvoice—will take place on September 26 and 27. Jack White, Khruangbin, and Sublime are also among the performers.Elsewhere on the bill are Durand Jones and the Indications, Alvvays, SG Lewis, 54 Ultra, Hiatus Kaiyote, Blond:Ish, Poolside, and a DJ set from Hot Chip. The festival, which spans the beach between Santa Monica Pier and Bay Street, takes its name from the street where Allen Sides founded the Ocean Way Recording studios.Caroline Torosis, mayor of…

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“The backbone of this book is a love story,” country legend says of tome that’s a tribute to his wife Annie Willie Nelson will reflect on life, music, and marriage in the country legend’s new book The Last Leaf, arriving this November. True to its title, The Last Leaf: Reflections on Late-Life Creativity—and My Longest Love Affair finds the still-prolific and still-touring 93-year-old sharing his secrets to remaining artistically active. Additionally, Nelson also shares recollections and anecdotes about “his wife and best friend for four decades” Annie, charting from when they first met to their long marriage to how she willed…

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Article by Marzia Picciano When at the end of May i Bleachers announced the release of everyone for ten minutestheir fifth latest album, together with the only Italian date in Milan The November 5 (where you will find me, regardless of developments on Hormuz), and after listening to it several times, I had already imagined starting a review by titling it “Find yourself someone who loves you like Jack Antonoff loves his wife”. Today, with tabloid events in hand, I thought it was time to resume the postponed effort and look at this work with new eyes, which in the…

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Bob Dylan has announced a UK headline tour for 2026, including a five-night residency in London. Find all the details below. Read More: ‘A Complete Unknown’ review: don’t think twice about seeing this brilliant Bob Dylan biopic The legendary singer-songwriter will hit the road again in November, following his ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ run on these shores late last year. He’ll kick off his next UK trek in Bournemouth on November 25, before playing arena shows in Birmingham and Sheffield. Two nights at Blackpool’s Opera House are scheduled to follow on November 30 and December 1. From there, Dylan will head…

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While Echo and the Bunnymen have been a steady presence on the road for years, the English rockers have yet to release an album since 2014’s Meteorites. That will change on September 18 with Apples for Isaac, their first LP in 12 years. Check out the animated video for first single “Brussels Is Haunted” below.“The mighty, legendary Clem Burke—longtime friend of Mac—was integral to the making of the album and heartbreakingly passed away during its completion… love you Clem X,” the band wrote in a statement.In a recent interview with Mojo, Echo co-founder and lead singer Ian McCulloch spoke further about the…

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Right before the opening title card of Noga hits the screen, you see Israeli rapper Noga Erez at her Tel Aviv home. It's December 2023, two months after Oct. 7, when Hamas killed more than 1,200 people and took hostage some 251 others to neighboring Gaza. Erez has just come offstage from a performance in Jerusalem, where she gives everything she's got rapping her 2021 hit “Fire Kites.” The song's lyrics — “We don't need bombs/We have fire kites” — take on an eerie resonance. Later that pitch-black night, Erez steps to the edge of her terrace, looks down at…

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