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2 days ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Melanie Davis
Snoop Dogg’s mind-bending music video for “Last Dance with Mary Jane,” his 2025 collaboration with Jelly Roll, seems less like one last dance with Mary Jane and more like many, many dances with the wackiest and most potent strains of Mary Jane imaginable.
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6 days ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Melanie Davis
Sometimes, we can’t recognize a musical moment for the critical milestone it is until we receive the gift of hindsight years later, and that’s precisely what Eric Church thinks was happening during his divisive Stagecoach set in 2024. Church headlined the festival along with Morgan Wallen and Miranda Lambert, promising a weekend full of country hits and good times…or so the California crowd thought.
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6 days ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Melanie Davis
As one of the leading figures of rock, pop, and folk music, Linda Ronstadt ran around the same circles with and attended the shows of countless musicians in these genres, and the Doors were certainly no exception. She was watching the rock band play in West Coast clubs before their now-iconic hits like “Light My Fire” became popular. Indeed, Ronstadt was present for the band’s earliest infancy.
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6 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Melanie Davis
3 hours agoTrump does Sean Connery impression while discussing future of James Bond in US-UK trade dealDonald Trump attempted an impression of Sean Connery while discussing the impact of US tariffs on the UK film industry following the announcement of a UK-US trade deal on Thursday, 8 May. The US president insisted "James Bond has nothing to worry about that" as he relayed an anecdote about the actor.
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6 days ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Melanie Davis
Unless you’re a Beatles aficionado (and/or saw Peter Jackson’s revealing documentary miniseries, The Beatles: Get Back), you would never be able to pick up on the deep tensions between John Lennon and Paul McCartney that were reaching a fever pitch during the Let It Be and Abbey Road sessions, which would make up the two final Beatles albums. On either record, from a surface-level vantage point, the band was as cohesive and creative as ever.
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1 week ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Melanie Davis
Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is well-known to lovers of mid-20th-century folk (or late 20th-century jazz rock, depending on where in Mitchell’s discography you prefer to stay), but she admittedly doesn’t have the star power of, say, the Beatles or Elvis Presley. As Mitchell outlined in a revealing 1986 interview with Joe Smith, that less-than-Elvis level of celebrity was precisely what she wanted. Anything else? “Horrifying.”Joni Mitchell has always marched to the beat of her own drum.
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1 week ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Melanie Davis
When Pink Floyd embarked on their 1987-88 tour for their thirteenth studio album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, the band was in the middle of their third and perhaps most notable lineup change in their career: bassist Roger Waters was out, keyboardist Richard Wright was back in, and a U.S. Army representative was coming along for the ride, too. The soldier might not have been playing anything on stage, but his presence certainly improved the band’s production value.
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1 week ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Melanie Davis
We call common time, common time, for good reason: whether classic rock, pop, or country, the vast majority of modern music tends to avoid odd meter in favor of the most prolific of all time signatures: 4/4. Without diving too deep into the realm of music theory, if you can naturally count to four in regular increments and feel like the song is following along with you, it’s likely in 4/4. Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” is a prime example of a rock song in common time.
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1 week ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Melanie Davis
Years before he would become the bassist of one of the most popular rock bands in the world, Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones was cutting his teeth as a session player, running in the same circles as his fellow hired hand and future bandmate Jimmy Page. During Jones’ days as a studio musician in the early 1960s, he rubbed elbows with countless artists with varying degrees of celebrity.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Melanie Davis
Workers Preparing To Construct An Apartment Building In Switzerland Just Uncovered An Ancient Roman Settlement Filled With Rare ArtifactsAlong an ancient road that was lined with columns and stretched 13 feet across, archaeologists found the ruins of several houses as well as latrines, …
