Ben Folds documents a House Judiciary Committee showdown as a metaphor for bullying and human resolve on his new song “Mister Peepers.” The political satire, which the songwriter recorded in conjunction with The Washington Post Magazine, references the heated June Capitol Hill exchange between U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein …
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Norah Jones, Graham Nash, Chaka Khan and Kris Kristofferson are among the artists that will pay tribute to Joni Mitchell at Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration, an all-star two-day concert marking the legendary singer-songwriter’s 75th birthday. Emmylou Harris, Glen Hansard, Seal, Los Lobos, Diana Krall and Rufus Wainwright will also …
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Police shot a man outside a California racetrack prior to an Ice Cube concert, an incident that occurred within earshot of a televised horse race. According to the Los Angeles Times, the man pulled a gun and fired several shots after being informed that the Ice Cube concert, scheduled to …
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Eminem unveiled a surprise album, Kamikaze, at midnight on Thursday. The LP includes a song from the Venom soundtrack, which heteased on Twitter prior to Kamikaze‘s release. A surprise release is a first for Eminem, who has rarely bent to the changing whims of the music industry over his 20-year …
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Fresh off celebrating his 21st birthday with a surprise mix, Lil Yachty has scheduled a fall trek dubbed the Disrespect Tour. The Lil Boat 2 rapper begins the jaunt on October 24th in Baltimore and heads westward, wrapping up the Disrespect Tour on November 28th in Santa Cruz, California. “Cash …
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After stepping into the culinary realm with Martha Stewart on the Emmy-nominated show Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, Snoop Dogg has prepared his first cookbook, From Crook to Crook. Publisher Chronicle Books teases that the title, out in October, will offer “cannabis-free … snacks to satisfy those munchies,” The …
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UPDATE:Nicki Minaj clarified Wednesday in a lengthy Instagram post that, contrary to the phrasing of various reports, she didn’t “cancel” her North American tour with Future. The “NickiHndrxx” jaunt was previously scheduled to launch September 21st in Baltimore, Maryland, but the rapper delayed the leg of that tour until May …
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After a tumultuous weekend sparring with enemies (both real and perceived) over her the sales numbers for Queen, Nicki Minaj reclaimed her throne in an epic Video Music Awards performance — except no one knew where the stage was. After a long tease that Minaj would be performing from an …
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Travis Scott‘s Astroworld held off Nicki Minaj‘s Queen to remain the Number One album on the Billboard 200, with the Houston rapper’s latest selling 205,000 total copies in its second week of release. Of that total, Astroworld accumulated 125,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEAs) thanks to a combined 167.5 million on-demand …
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Smokey Robinson remembered his childhood friend and frequent duet partner Aretha Franklin Friday in an interview with CBS This Morning. “She has left us with a musical legacy that kids who have not even been born yet will get a chance to experience,” Robinson said of the Queen of Soul …
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