Nicki Minaj announced Friday that she is taking part in a docuseries about her life and career that will premiere on HBO Max. “It’s going to give you guys a raw, unfiltered look at my personal life and my professional journey, and I can’t wait to share it with you,” …
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Bruce Springsteen took his annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit virtual this year due to Covid-19, but the artist still managed to put on a socially distanced show with a little help from some friends. Put together with the New York Comedy Festival and the Bob Woodruff Foundation, the event …
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Mariah Carey has enlisted Ariana Grande, Tiffany Haddish, Snoop Dogg, and more for her new holiday extravaganza, Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special, premiering December 4th on Apple TV Plus. The special, per a release, will center around Carey helping Santa solve a last-minute “holiday cheer crisis” at the North Pole …
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Kali Uchis recruits Puerto Rican reggaeton act Jowell & Randy for her sleek new song “te pongo mal (prendelo).” The singer adopts a variety of vocal rhythms on the booming cut, layering harmonies over dubby sub-bass, a crackling beat and hazy, guitar-like loop. “te pongo mal (prendelo)” is the latest …
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System of a Down report that they have raised $600,000 in aid for Armenians affected by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh (a.k.a. Artsakh). The group reunited earlier this month to record two new songs — their first in 15 years — to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis in the region, …
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Low Cut Connie have released a new video for “Wild Ride,” a track off their latest album, Private Lives. The clip was directed by Sara Fox and pairs the slow-burning song with a sequence of equally smoldering and mysterious visuals. Throughout the clip, Low Cut Connie frontman Adam Weiner roams …
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In the summer of 2003, Neil Young hit the road with Crazy Horse for a run of North American amphitheater shows where they played their new rock opera, Greendale, straight through, complete with crudely built stage sets and actors playing all the parts. The only problem: Greendale wasn’t even out …
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Chances are, you’ve never heard a boast track quite like “Exuma, the Obeah Man,” the opening song off Exuma’s self-titled 1970 album. A wolf howls, frogs count off a ramshackle symphony, bells jingle, drums palpitate, a zombie exhales, all by way of introducing the one-of-a-kind Bahamian performer, born Tony Mackey: …
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And when all the votes were counted, Sharon Jones won in a landslide. On Monday night, the city council of North Augusta, South Carolina, voted unanimously to name a new outdoor amphitheater in town after Jones, the late-blooming R&B and soul singer who died in 2016 of pancreatic cancer. The …
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A year after the Rolling Stones‘ Rock and Roll Circus multimedia box set, ABKCO has released “Sympathy for the Devil” from the remastered video. Clocking in at nearly nine minutes, the clip features the band tearing through the rowdy Beggars Banquet track. It took place on December 12th, 1968 — …
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