Gabriels have just five songs to their name, but one of them verges on the sublime. “Professional,” which came out toward the end of 2020, embraces the off-kilter swoon of jazz vocalists like Billie Holiday or Andy Bey, as singer Jacob Lusk sends his voice gently dive-bombing to the floor …
Read More »20 Years In, Gorillaz Are Still Imagining Pop's Future
The latest release from Damon Albarn’s ever-evolving project Gorillaz is one of the most diverse, wide-open, and free-flowing LPs the cartoon band has released in its 20-year history. That’s saying something; Albarn has always proposed Gorillaz as a space beyond and between pop music’s borders, and over the decades everyone …
Read More »Welcome to 'Chromatica': Inside Lady Gaga's Triumphant Dance Floor Return
On the Chromatica track “Free Woman,” Lady Gaga sings with conviction: “This is my dance floor I fought for.” She’s not exaggerating; her sixth album is, in many ways, about the journey that paved the way for the pop superstar’s triumphant return to dance music. “I think that the beginning …
Read More »Flashback: What the Hell Were the Rock Music Awards in 1975?
Five months after the 1975 Grammys, Elton John and Diana Ross drove onto the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium stage in a futuristic-looking golf cart to host a ludicrous awards show that has been forever lost to time. Producer-manager-impresario Don Kirshner, who had long since earned his bona fides as the …
Read More »Elton John Adds New North American Dates to Farewell Tour
UPDATE: Elton John will bring his farewell tour into 2020 after adding seven New York metropolitan area shows to his three-year farewell tour. Tickets for the gigs go on sale to the general public on September 27th. See the new dates below. Elton John added 25 additional North American dates …
Read More »Elton John Plots Final Shows of Las Vegas Residency
Elton John announced the final dates of “The Million Dollar Piano,” his long-running Las Vegas residency. The climactic 14 shows will take place at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace between April 28th and May 19th, 2018. Tickets go on sale Sunday, October 22nd at 10 a.m. PT either in person …
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