When the Dixie Chicks topped the charts for the final time with 2006’s Taking the Long Way — the trio’s bruised and battered tribute to nonconformity, written in the wake of Natalie Maines’ controversial comments about President George W. Bush — they did so with help from several left-field collaborators. …
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As rumored,Elton John performed during the lunchtime reception that followed the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The singer also attended the wedding earlier in Saturday in Windsor. According to the Daily Mail, John took the stage after Prince Harry, following his speech, asked his guests, “Does anyone …
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“You should see the wall of ambivalence I’m building!” sang Austin Brown on his band’s 2013 stoned ‘n’ starving slacker-rock breakthroughLight Up Gold. The band sure don’t sound ambivalent now. “Allow me to ponder the role I play/In this pornographic spectacle of black death!” co-leader Andrew Savage hollers on “Violence,” …
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“I was going to write an autobiography once,” Jeff Beck says with a laugh. “I started writing it, and then I thought, ‘No, let them dig around when I’m dead.’” It’s a late-April day, and the guitarist, 73, is reclining comfortably in a black chair in his Tribeca hotel suite. …
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U2 will perform a special invitation-only concert at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater June 11th. SiriusXM will host the concert and broadcast the performance after it happens on channel 30. The Apollo concert will be a much more intimate show than U2‘s ongoing Experience + Innocence world tour, which includes an …
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Post Malone‘s Beerbongs & Bentleys fended off an influx of new releases to remain Number One on the Billboard 200 for the second straight week. A week after setting a new streaming record, Beerbongs & Bentleys sold another 193,000 total copies to keep its hold of the top spot. Of …
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Christina Aguilera has unveiled another song from her forthcoming album, Liberation, her first LP since 2012’s Lotus. The emotional ballad, “Twice,” follows the release of her Kanye West-produced “Accelerate,” which features Ty Dolla $ign and 2 Chainz. On the new, moody track, the singer contemplates the duality that can be …
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Detroit rapper Royce Da 5’9″ reunites with his Bad Meets Evil partner Eminem for a new video for “Caterpillar.” The song hails from Royce’s seventh album, Book of Ryan. In the black-and-white, James Larese-directed clip, the rappers take turns on their fiery verses while the other remains stoic, taking in …
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“I can kind of be a chameleon,” says Sasha Spielberg. At 27, Spielberg has been making music for nearly a decade – first in Wardell, an indie-folk act with her brother Theo, and then in Just Friends, an electro-pop collaboration with her friend, producer Nicolas Jaar. Yet she’s a woman …
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Fresh off their surprise win for ACM Vocal Group of the Year, country band Old Dominion have added a fresh round of dates to their ongoing Happy Endings World Tour. Beginning October 4th in Knoxville, Tennessee, the band has 22 new shows on tap with dates spread out across the …
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