Mariah Carey remembered her VH1 Divas partner Aretha Franklin as “my inspiration, my mentor and my friend” in a poignant tribute to the Queen of Soul, who died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at age 76. In a series of tweets, Carey called Franklin “the ultimate singers’ singer” and “the greatest …
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Pearl Jam promoted their recent Missoula, Montana concert Monday with a poster that depicted the White House on fire and a bald eagle picking at President Donald Trump’s corpse. The band’s bassist, Jeff Ament, designed it with his artist friend Bobby Brown, who is known online as Bobby Draws Skullz. …
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The film Imagine, which John Lennon and Yoko Ono codirected and costarred in, will return to theaters this fall with extra footage. It also features restored footage and a newly remastered soundtrack mixed in Dolby Atmos by Paul Hicks, who has won Grammys for his work on the Beatles’ box …
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“We’re all doomed,” Sturgill Simpson says in the official trailer for One Dollar, a CBS All Access program that finds the Grammy winner swept up in a world of murder, mystery and Rust Belt desperation. Already a familiar face on late-night television, the songwriter makes his debut as a TV …
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On Thursday night, Kanye West returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live for his first public interview since his disorienting run-up to Ye, in which he endorsed President Trump, called slavery a choice and announced that he was bipolar. Over the course of his interview, West doubled down on many of the …
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Halfway into Weezer’s über-ironic cover of Toto’s “Africa” at Wednesday’s Los Angeles concert, they leveled up. “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic!” Rivers Cuomo exclaimed. Yankovic came out with a serious look on his face, accordion in hand and doubled up Cuomo’s guitar solo. He then took the …
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Kane Brown gets into a laid-back state of mind with his new song “Weekend,” the second taste of an upcoming release that follows current single “Lose It.” Brown shared the song on Wednesday, promoting it along with scenes from a new video on Twitter. Rather than the maxed-out country-rock of …
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Each June tens of thousands of the country faithful travel from around the world to Nashville for the massive CMA Music Festival – and for good reason. Hundreds of stars gather in country music’s capital for four days of mostly-free music, capped off by nightly stadium concerts headlined by the …
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St. Vincent will set the tone ofAustin City Limits‘44th season with an hour-long premiere episode that airs October 6th. The artist born Annie Clark filmed her concert at Austin’s venerable Moody Theater on May 14th, with the gig drawing heavily from the singer’s latest LP Masseduction. In an exclusive video …
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“I don’t think Devo would have hatched in a major city,” the group’s Jerry Casale says, looking back on the art-rockers’ early history in a excited tone. “We were surrounded by an anti-intellectual culture and antagonistic people in Ohio. By the time we came up on the radar of the …
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