Last night, a whole mob of luminaries gathered at New York’s Carnegie Hall for an all-star tribute to Paul McCartney. McCartney himself was not in attendance, but plenty of his peers and admirers were. The show was part of promoter Michael Dorf’s fundraising “Music Of” series, which has previously saluted ...

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Last year, Suede released a new album, Autofiction, their first in four years and the latest entry in an impressive late-career creative renaissance.They recently stopped by the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios to participate in what the network’s Radio 2 is calling “Piano Room Month,” where a bunch of artists are...

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On Saturday, Tom Verlaine, the hugely influential guitarist and Television frontman, died at the age of 73. The person who broke the news of Verlaine’s death was Jesse Paris Smith, Patti Smith’s daughter. Over the years, Verlaine was one of Patti Smith’s closest contemporaries. Verlaine and Smith both came out of th...