Rolling Stone Country staged its annual Live Nashville party on Tuesday night at Marathon Music Works. Presented by Ram, the concert featured performances by headliners Brothers Osborne, Brent Cobb and Lucie Silvas. Brothers, the reigning CMA Vocal Duo of the Year, delivered their typically high-octane set, propelled by singer TJ …
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Kelela unveiled a stunning new video for “Blue Light,” which appears on her new album, Take Me Apart. The Helmi-directed clip opens with Kelela alone in an empty room, singing the seductive song straight to the camera. Soon, however, the singer’s hair seems to come alive, sliding down her arms, …
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Mavis Staples was just eight years old when, one evening in 1948, her father, Roebuck “Pops” Staples, sat her and her siblings down on the floor of their South Side Chicago apartment, and taught them their first-ever song: the country-gospel traditional “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” Seventy years later, and …
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Taylor Swiftgave another taste of her album Reputation with the new song, “Call It What You Want.” Reputation will be available everywhere on November 10th. “My castle crumbled overnight / I brought a knife to a gun fight,” Swift sings over mid-tempo electro-pop. “They took the crown but it’s alright.” …
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Lana Del Rey said she is retiring her 2012 song “Cola” in an interview with MTV News. The song gained renewed attention in the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault allegations, because it was rumored to be about Weinstein. “When I wrote that song, I suppose I had a …
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Coach Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors got a very public dis-invitation from President Donald Trump to visit the White House. What is normally a warm and non-political event for championship teams became a wholly political spectacle that played out in the media and on Twitter. Now, with the …
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In response to the controversial comments made by Houston Texans owner Bob McNair, most of the team’s players took a knee and linked arms during the national anthem prior to their game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. Around 10 players stood with their hand on their heart for the …
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“Bollocks was such a solid piece of work, yet when we were recording it, it felt anything but,” says Johnny Rotten, looking back on the watershed 1977 LP Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. By his account, the group was working with a producer who was “deaf in …
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While no one is challenging his credentials, Texan Granger Smith has more in common with multi-tooled pop stars than he does with the Nashville country crowd. Well before his breakout 2016 record Remington, which included the Gold-certified single “Backroad Song,” Smith had already secured a weekly segment on CBS Sports …
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A New Zealand judge awarded Eminem‘s publishing company $600,000 ($415,000 USD) after ruling that a political party violated the rapper’s copyright by using a song similar to his 2002 8 Mile hit “Lose Yourself” in a 2014 election advertisement. The country’s High Court deemed that the track in question – …
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