City Girls have unveiled new song “JT First Day Out.” Aptly named to mark duo member JT’s release after serving more than a year in prison on credit card fraud charges, JT raps that she’s “motivated” and poised for what’s next. On the Twysted Genius-produced track, JT details the time …
Read More »Dead Can Dance Plot 2020 Tour
Dead Can Dance will tour North and South America on a Spring trek dubbed “A Celebration – Life & Works 1980-2020.” A U.S./Canada leg launches April 17th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and wraps May 11th in San Diego, California. A brief run of Mexico, Columbia, Peru and Chile continues through late …
Read More »This Week In Latin Music: Maluma, Jennifer Lopez Take NYC; Soda Stereo Plots Tour
In case you missed it, here are some highlights from this week in Latinmusic —now with a Spotify playlist! Maluma Welcomes Jennifer Lopez to the Stage at Madison Square Garden Colombian pop star Maluma sold out Madison Square Garden for his second time ever on Friday night, during the New …
Read More »Mick Jagger Once Seriously Considered a Pension Plan
Mick Jagger could not have foreseen that he’d still be rocking out in his seventies. In fact, according to the Rolling Stones‘ former accountant, he discussed the possibility of setting up a pension plan back in the day. “I was having a meeting with Mick while he was waiting for …
Read More »Watch Kurt Vile Retreat to Cozy Upstate New York in New Documentary
A month before the release of his excellent 2018 album Bottle It In, Kurt Vile retreated to the Catskills in Upstate New York for a weekend of solace. Residing in a 20-bedroom Victorian estate called Big Indian Springs, Vile spent time preparing for the record’s release and rehearsing for an …
Read More »We Should Not Have to Be Surprised by a Murder Conviction When a Black Man Is Murdered
Policing in the United States has evolved throughout the centuries, but killing black people with impunity has been a common theme for what seems like actual forever. It feels as though the institution could use its own 1619 Project at times, sourcing policing’s Southern roots, at least, to some of …
Read More »As a Former Big-Oil Lawyer Takes Over the Bureau of Land Management, One Tribe Fights for Its Sacred Land
The Blackfeet Nation believes their people were created where Badger Creek and the Two Medicine River trace their headwaters in Montana. Bounded by Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Reservation, the Badger-Two Medicine is a staggeringly beautiful landscape of 8,000-foot limestone peaks and deep river canyons, just 30 miles south …
Read More »Busbee: 10 Great Songs Written or Produced by Pop-Country's Quiet Innovator
News of Michael Busbee’s death at 43 on Sunday resonated throughout Nashville and the music community at large. A respected songwriter and producer, he was a creative partner to Nashville artists like Maren Morris, Keith Urban, and Lady Antebellum, deftly bringing a pop sensibility to country music. And for good …
Read More »Future 25: Tunji Balogun, EVP of A&R at RCA
When Tunji Balogun was young, a series of black superstars soared through mainstream pop music — Michael and Janet Jackson, Prince, Whitney Houston. “I remember growing up with tons of black faces on my screen,” he says. “But then something changed in the late 1990s, early 2000s: It just kind …
Read More »White House Hid Transcripts of Calls with Putin and Saudi Royals on Highly Classified System
The White House acted to hide not only transcripts of President Donald Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president but also with Russian president Vladimir Putin and members of the Saudi Royal family on a highly classified computer system reserved for the country’s most sensitive information, according to reporting from CNN and …
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