Like many of Prince‘s former collaborators, Levi Seacer, Jr. still refers to his old boss in the present tense. Seacer joinedPrince’s post-Revolution touring band on bass not long before the release of 1987’s Sign O’ the Times, and stuck around as the band morphed into the New Power Generation, switching …
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Prince’s estate has shared the singer’s original 1979 version of “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man,” which Prince would later revisit years later for Sign O’ the Times. The stripped-down demo appears on the upcoming, massive reissue dedicated to Prince’s 1987 double-album. The 1979 version of “I …
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UPDATE: Juicy J has pulled the diss track “Fuk Columbia Records” after speaking with his label. “We are all good,” the rapper wrote on Instagram Saturday. Juicy J has dropped the new diss track “Fuk Columbia Records,” which features the Three 6 Mafia rapper blasting his record label. The track, …
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Prince’s eponymous second album turns 40 this month, and in honor of the anniversary, the Prince estate has released a previously unheard, acoustic demo version of “I Feel For You.” The full version of the song was one of the album’s original tracks, and later became a hit single for …
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EDITORS’ PICK: Christine & the Queens, Chris “Chrisis an LP doubled,”writes Will Hermes. “First, there’s a mostly English-language set, with heavily accented lyrics, charmingly off-kilter syntax, and polyglot asides. ‘Let me taste/On a butch babe in LA,’ she pleads on‘Damn (What A Woman Must Do),’lamenting the extremes of ‘what must …
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The Prince estate has inked a deal that will give Sony Music and Legacy Recordings distribution rights to 35 previously released Prince albums. Starting this year, Legacy will be allowed to make available 19 Prince albums originally issued between 1995 and 2010. These include The Gold Experience, Emancipation, Rave Un2 …
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Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon dubbedQuestlovea “human Shazam” on Tuesday’s episode, and the Roots drummer backed up that lofty title during a jaw-dropping Prince edition of “One Second Song Quiz.” Fallon played the musician a series of second-long clips: the drums from “Raspberry Beret,” the swirling intro to “Baby I’m …
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The Minnesota Twins will offer Prince-branded merchandise year-round after the baseball team secured a deal with the singer’s estate. The agreement also ensures that the Twins will once again celebrate the Minnesota icon’s legacy with a second annual Prince Night at Minneapolis’ Target Field. According to the Minnesota Star-Tribune (via …
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