For six hours at Clive Davis‘ pre-Grammy gala in Beverly Hills Saturday night, the music industry‘s most recognizable faces gently set the controversy shrouding the Recording Academy down on their tablecloth-draped banquet tables and poured out dozens of toasts and smiles — celebrating themselves, their colleagues, and the continued triumph …
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In a new interview with Zane Lowe, Demi Lovato discussed her upcoming Grammys appearance — her first live performance in nearly two years — and the song she’ll be premiering on the telecast, “Anyone.” The track was written and recorded four days before Lovato suffered an overdose in the summer …
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Eminem‘s latest album,Music to Be Murdered By, at times leaned heavily on one of the rapper’s time-honored attributes: a dependence on shock value. In its two most attention-grabbing moments, he raps from the perspective of the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people in 2017 (“Darkness”), and throws in an …
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Delivering the opening remarks at the impeachment trial of President Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) evoked the founding fathers to put impeachment in historical context. Schiff said that Alexander Hamilton had cautioned that a public official unfit for public office may one day get elected to “pursue his own interests.” …
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The Strokes, Robyn, Wu-Tang Clan and Disclosure lead the 2020 lineup for the III Points Festival in Miami, Florida, which will be held May 1st and 2nd at Mana Wynwood in the Wynwood Arts District. The art, technology and music festival announced its eclectic, forward-thinking dance music and indie rock …
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Chicago’s annual Windy City Smokeout returns for its eighth installment in July, with Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, and Jon Pardi headlining the three-day country music and barbecue festival. Set for July 10th through 12th, the event assembles 20 pitmasters from around the country — including low-and-slow hotbeds like Kansas City, …
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“Eminem wants to sample our dad,” Catarina Spinetta told her siblings. It was a mid-October day and they were celebrating their sister Vera’s birthday. “We we were just surprised,” she adds. It all started in September 2019, when they were contacted by Eminem’s label, Shady Records, along with Peermusic and …
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EDM king Steve Aoki joins forces with Colombian pop star Maluma in their beguiling reggaeton-house track, “Maldad.” It is the 11th single off Aoki’s upcoming album, Neon Future IV. “We wanted to hypnotize people,” Aoki tells Rolling Stone of making the song. “You got the rhythm, you got the melody, …
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Steve Martin Caro, lead singer of the Sixties baroque-pop band the Left Banke, has died at the age of 71. Caro’s death was first announced on a Left Banke Facebook fan page that both he and surviving members of the group frequented; the group’s Twitter later confirmed the singer’s death, …
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Thundercat links funk’s past and future with Steve Lacy and Steve Arrington on his new song, “Black Qualls.” The track will appear on Thundercat’s new album, It Is What It Is, out April 3rd on Brainfeeder. The whole track is anchored by a thick bass groove that allows the rest …
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