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Phoebe Bridgers did not mince words when talking to reporters backstage at the Grammys, calling out the former head of the Recording Academy after he was recently accused of rape. Bridgers, who appeared in the Grammys press room alongside her boygenius band members Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus following their win for best rock performance, was asked about the future of rock and women excelling in the genre. “I have something to say about women,” Bridgers responded. “The ex-president of the…

There’s a lot more to Neil Morrissey than you might think. His first ever film role was opposite Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins and Laurence Olivier in 1984 historical mariner drama, The Bounty. He’s appeared with Martin Clunes as a fictitious former new romantic pop group in Hunting Venus and was in the film adaptation of the John Godber rubbish-rugby team drama Up ‘n’ Under. On stage, he’s tackled Robin Hood, Guy and Dolls and Oliver. And he’s had two No 1 singles, Can We Fix It and Mambo No 5, under his guise as the voice…

Four years after the death of Neil Peart, the Rush drummer’s final book is set for publication. Silver Surfers, subtitled Sports Cars of the Sixties, documents Peart’s auto obsession. “For Neil Peart, cars were a lifelong passion, and in his final literary creation, he writes about his beloved Silver Surfers collection; the joy of collecting these exquisite, rare, and important sports cars, and the myriad ways that they brought him great joy,” the book’s synopsis states. “Silver Surfers is an homage to these cars…

Bourbon & Beyond is going above and beyond for its sixth annual installment. The Kentucky music festival will return to Louisville later this year with headlining performances from Zach Bryan, Tyler Childers, Neil Young, and Dave Matthews Band. Beck, Maren Morris, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Cody Jinks, and My Morning Jacket are also on the bill. The 2024 lineup features 100 artists performing across five stages for four days from Sept. 19 through 22. Bourbon & Beyond has added two additional stages at…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, DC Comics | Tagged: Charles Vess, neil gaiman, sandman, william shakespeareSandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess and William Shakespeare, is being remastered by Steve Oliff.I think from this, that we can guess that the next season of Sandman on Netflix will include an adaptation of the Sandman story, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess and… William Shakespeare, published in Sandman #19 by DC Comics in 1990. The comic won a…

Neil Young will release ‘Dume’, a new limited-edition all analogue vinyl pressing of 16 songs that were originally collected for Neil Young’s ‘Archives Vol. II’, released in autumn 2020. The collection will be released on 23rd February 2024 and can be pre-ordered now at https://neilyoung.warnerartists.net/gb/. It features recordings, some of which were part of the historic ‘Zuma’ album sessions by Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and others previously unreleased, are a detailed look at one of the most exciting…

Neil Gaiman is well known for his melodic, dreamy voice, which has been put to use on everything from audiobooks to voicing the Simpson’s cat Snowball. But Neil Gaiman the singer? When he’d occasionally perform live with his ex-wife, the musician Amanda Palmer, his voice was described by the New York Times, perhaps a little unkindly, as “a novelist’s version of singing”.Next month Gaiman is bringing that voice to the Sydney Opera House, where he’ll be performing with the Australian string quartet FourPlay. How is he…

Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which owns the streaming rights to artists ranging from Beyoncé to Neil Young, has sold a chunk of its song rights at a steep discount to raise cash.The fund said on Monday that it had sold 20,000 unspecified “non-core” songs for $23.1m (£18.4m), in a statement to the London Stock Exchange, where it is listed.The price was a 14% discount to their valuation at 30 September, in a sign of the company’s need for cash as it tries to meet its debt obligations.Hipgnosis was founded in 2018 by Merck…

At 78, “Shakey” is showing no signs of slowing down, although he seems more comfortable with looking back. Recorded over the course of four shows on his recent Coastal Tour, Before and After is a live album with a difference: 13 songs from throughout Young’s career are performed, without audience noise, in a continuous 48-minute sequence. The acoustic-based selections cover seven decades and are mostly lesser known, although the minimal instrumentation and similar themes, such as the passage of time and a changing world,…

Every April growing up in East Texas, Vincent Neil Emerson and his family traveled to Louisiana for their tribe’s annual powwow. For that one weekend of the year, the future singer-songwriter was immersed in the culture of his mother’s people, the Choctaw-Apache. He was dazzled by the spectacle of the dances, the drums and song, which were performed, at times, in traditional regalia, jewelry, and beadwork. Those memories were seared into his mind. “It’s always been a huge part of my life. It’s how I was…