The Alarm frontman Mike Peters has died after a three-decade battle with cancer, which prompted him to create the Love Hope Strength Foundation to sign up bone marrow donors at concerts. He was 66.
A whopping 13 of those Cowboy Carter songs were live debuts, including opener “American Requiem,” “Alligator Tears,” “Flamenco,” “Desert Eagle,” “Tyrant” and “Protector,” the latter of which marked the first on-stage appearance by Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s seven-year-old daughter Rumi.
The hardcore originators last released an album with 1995’s polished Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities, a record Morris is no fan of and in the past has actually said, “It should not exist.” He has higher expectations for how the band he formed with guitarist Greg Hetson in 1979 approaches the next one.
After releasing two one-off tracks as a precursor to their first Swell Season album in 16 years, Oscar-winning Once duo Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová have confirmed details for the project, Forward, which is due June 13. Another single, “Stuck in Reverse,” is out now and is accompanied by a video filmed last month during a pop-up performance at tiny New York bar Scratcher.
Chicago’s eclectic Riot Fest will commemorate its 20th anniversary this year with a lineup led by blink-182, Weezer and Green Day. The event will take place Sept. 19-21 at Douglass Park and includes big names from across the rock, punk, metal, hardcore and alternative universes, plus several left-field bookings.
Efforts to cure the debilitating skin disease Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder‘s role therein, are at the forefront of the documentary Matter of Time, which will premiere June 12 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Vedder will also offer “an intimate acoustic performance” after the screening.
Noah Kahan, Lucy Dacus and Doechii will headline the Washington, D.C.-area edition of the All Things Go festival, with the latter topping a festival bill for the first in her quickly exploding career.
The 20-song, nearly two-hour performance was rife with elaborate choreography, costumes and set pieces, including an opera house, a giant chess board and a sandbox filled with nylon-clad zombies.
Posthumous albums are always a delicate proposition, but especially for Nell Smith.
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