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Watch John Paul Jones Play Led Zeppelin Classics at Big Ears Fest

John Paul Jones dusted off some Led Zeppelin classics during his performance at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday.The legendary bassist began his set on a very different instrument, the pipe organ. Rising up from underneath the stage in true Phantom of the Opera style, Jones opened with an impressive rendition of “Your Time Is Gonna Come.”From there, he moved over to the piano, delivering “No Quarter,” the […]

todayMarch 23, 2024

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Global Streaming Growth Led to Local Music Boom in Latin America

In their much-cited 2023 paper “Glocalisation of Music Streaming within and across Europe,” Will Page and Chris Dalla Riva note that the rise of global streaming platforms correlates with the strengthening of local music. This seemingly contradictory state is what the authors refer to as “glocalisation” — or “glocalization” in the American spelling. And in Latin music, that phenomenon has led to a spike in local genres like corridos, banda, […]

todayMarch 16, 2024 2

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Taylor Swift & ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Led Cassette Sales in 2023

The Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack franchise and Taylor Swift unspooled big numbers on cassette tape in 2023, as the combined sales of the two accounted for 29% of all cassette albums sold in the U.S. last year, according to data tracking firm Luminate. Further, the top five-selling cassette albums of 2023, as well as six of the top 10, were all Swift and Guardians titles (see list, below). 2023’s […]

todayFebruary 19, 2024

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Led Zeppelin Solo Albums Ranked Worst to Best

The post-Led Zeppelin discography is littered with vanity projects, weird detours and huge disappointments – but also some of the best records of the succeeding eras.They weren't immune to the odd partial reunion, whether that's Jimmy Page's turn on John Paul Jones' 1985 soundtrack Scream for Help or Page's guest appearance on the subsequent Robert Plant album Now and Zen. Page and Plant also released a pair of shared projects […]

todayJanuary 26, 2024

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The Legendary Led Zeppelin Show That Probably Never Happened

Led Zeppelin performed a show for fewer than 60 people on Jan. 20, 1969, at a tiny youth center in Maryland. Or, maybe and more likely ... they didn't.A hardcore group of "attendees" or believers have stuck to this story for decades now, but Led Zeppelin's official site lists the show – reportedly held in Wheaton, a town of around 50,000 residents near Washington, D.C. – only as an "unconfirmed rumour." […]

todayJanuary 20, 2024 1

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Led Zeppelin’s Debut Becomes a Hard Rock Paradigm

Led Zeppelin’s eponymous debut is an album full of firsts. Released in the U.K. on Jan. 12, 1969, Led Zeppelin may not match the historical stature of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but it remains the prototypical hard-rock album. It also could well be named the first album of the ‘70s, aesthetically speaking – and it’s certainly one of the first watershed albums released after the Beatles’ Technicolor masterpiece changed, […]

todayJanuary 12, 2024

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Spotify Stock Gains Led Music This Year; Universal, Live Nation Up Too – Billboard

The Billboard Global Music Index — a diverse collection of 20 publicly traded music companies — finished 2023 up 31.3% as Spotify’s share price alone climbed 138% thanks to cost-cutting and focus on margins. Spotify is the single-largest component of the float-adjusted index and has one of the largest market capitalizations of any music company. The music index was outperformed by the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite, which gained 43.4% with the help […]

todayDecember 30, 2023 3

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HEALTH’s Jake Duzsik Discusses What Led to Darkness of New Album

When HEALTH's new album, RAT WARS, was first announced, it was said that they wrote it during the most emotionally trying period of the band."I think [record] labels and press agents, they love snappy copy," frontman Jake Duzsik admitted to Chuck Armstrong on Friday's Loudwire Nights (Dec. 22). "I'd say that statement is a little bit reductive."Duzsik said that his bandmates seemed to have had a pretty good experience during […]

todayDecember 23, 2023 4

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From Cardi B To Led Zeppelin

While 2023 represents the 50th year of hip-hop, it’s also the 75th anniversary of one of the labels that has had a huge hand in making hip-hop the global phenomenon it is today. Today, Atlantic Records announced its plans to celebrate making it three-quarters of a century (especially in an industry that has seen so much upheaval almost from day one), which include a year’s worth of vinyl reissues of […]

todaySeptember 13, 2023 1

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