Daryl Dragon, the keyboard-playing “Captain” of Seventies hitmakers Captain and Tennille, died at a hospice in Prescott, Arizona on Wednesday. Associated Press reports the cause of death as renal failure. He was 76. As Captain and Tennille, Dragon and his then-wife Toni Tennille scored a string of catchy, easy-rolling hits …
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Brandi Carlile remembers exactly where she was when she came up with “Party of One.” “I was drunk. I was listening to [Joni Mitchell’s] Blue in the hayloft of my barn, and I was feeling an insane amount of pressure to make my domestic life work, more pressure than a …
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The Grammy nominations are out and it’s a rapper-heavy affair. This yearat music’s most prestigious awards ceremony, the three artists with the most nominations all belong to the genre: Kendrick Lamar (8), Drake (7) and Boi-1da (6). Six out of the top 10 artists with the most nominations are either …
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Patti Smith has never shied away from life’s tragic side. But when she calls up Rolling Stone in October, she’s in an upbeat mood. “On the road, they have these LG televisions and when you turn them on, it says: Life Is Good. I love that,” Smith says. “Actually, I …
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The 1975‘s Matty Healy is one of the most open interview subjects in music right now — ask him virtually anything and he’ll respond with his thoughts, and lots of them. “Maybe I just have a fast-moving mind,” the singer recently told Rolling Stone. “Not a particularly good or bad …
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Tim McGraw is one country music superstar who’s not afraid to break down barriers, and come May 2019 he’ll be making a trek south of the border to Cuba for Tim McGraw: One of Those Havana Nights. Taking place May 23rd to 27th in Havana, Cuba — a country where …
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There was a lot of talk about Number Ones as Kane Brown sat in the lobby of the Canopy by Hilton in Dallas, Texas, last Friday night. Fresh off topping the Billboard 200 album chart with his Experiment LP, Brown was performing for a small gathering of Hilton Honors members, …
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Gucci Mane teams with Quavo to trade verses on their respective opulent lifestyles on new song “Bipolar.” The track will appear on Gucci Mane’s forthcoming Evil Genius album, which will be released on December 7th. Over a gently woozy piano melody, Gucci opens with how he spends crazy cash. “Bipolar …
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