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The Specials announce new album 'Protest Songs 1924-2012', share "Freedom Highway"

The album features “twelve singular takes on specially chosen protest songs across an almost 100-year span and shows The Specials still care, are still protesting and are still pissed off,” including songs by Leonard Cohen, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, Bob Marley & more

Grand Old Opry's "City Stage" hosting shows in Times Square (schedule)

Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry opened its long-in-the-works, first-ever “home away from home” Opry City Stage in New York City in December. See the upcoming schedule…

Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2015

The new issue of UK music mag Uncut is out now, and it includes their Top 75 Albums of 2015 list. Like fellow UK mags MOJO and Q, they’ve got a lot of love for Julia Hol…

What's going on Thursday? (Jonathan Richman, Neil Finn, Body/Head, Angel Haze, High Highs, World's Fair & more)

Body/Head at Saint Vitus in June (more by Fred Pessaro) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows. Here are some highlights…

Toronto's the Beauties kicking off Pianos residency (Kevin Drew will play with them at the final one)

“Anyone who considers the Beauties “just a bar band” will be pleasantly surprised by their debut album. While the Dakota favourites could easily have treated the full-length as a recorded document of their rollicking, booze-soaked live shows, they instead crafted an album of legitimately strong, diverse rock songs…