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Music News
Aimee Mann says Steely Dan dropped her from tour, Donald Fagen apologizes [Pitchfork]

The Linda Lindas: the fearless, fun-loving future of punk-rock [NME]

Jack White urges major labels to build their own record pressing plants [Stereogum]


Dolly Parton withdraws from consideration for The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame [Stereogum]

Tom Morello covers Tom Waits with X Ambassadors’ Sam Harris [Spin]

Wu-Tang's RZA on redefining Hip-Hop & building generational wealth [NPR]

 The Smile, Radiohead side project, release new song ‘Skrting on the Surf' [Spin]

Music History
[Courtesy of calendar.songfacts.com ]

March 14
1998: Weeks after Johnny Cash's Unchained wins the Grammy for Best Country Album, his producer Rick Rubin takes out a full-page ad in Billboard with a photo of the singer giving the middle finger along with the text, "American Recordings and Johnny Cash would like to acknowledge the Nashville music establishment and country radio for your support."

March 15
2019: The New York Public Library opens the Lou Reed Archive, with photos, recordings and other media documenting his career. The exhibit continues with upcoming events.

March 16
1968: Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" hits #1, becoming the first-ever posthumous #1 hit. Redding died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967.

March 17
1987: Reacting to a Beastie Boys concert three weeks earlier where the group used a giant inflatable penis as a stage prop and encouraged girls in the crowd to bare their breasts, the city of Columbus, Georgia passes an anti-lewdness law prohibiting nudity, simulated sex, and objectionable language at any show attended by minors.

March 18
2020: Gal Gadot posts a video of herself and a host of celebrities singing "Imagine" line-by-line from their places of quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic. It doesn't get the reaction she's after.

March 19
1919: Jazz music plays throughout New Orleans after a serial killer threatens to murder anyone not listening to it.

March 20
2003: On the day the Iraq war begins, Bruce Springsteen opens his Melbourne, Australia, show with a quiet, acoustic version of his hit "Born In The U.S.A." and follows it, pointedly, with a cover of Edwin Starr's "War."

 

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