Fans of hair metal and Hot 100 rap are in for a strange treat this October whenLita Ford, Bret Michaels and Sammy Hagar open for “Bodak Yellow” rapper and current Rolling Stone cover star Cardi B. They just have to figure out how to get to El Dorado, Arkansas first. …
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“This sounds like I’m full of shit,” Lori McKenna says, adding a dose of salt to her otherwise sweet, mom-next-door demeanor, “but I’m just so happy that I get to have music as a career.” Frankly, it’s hard to imagine a world in which anyone would ever doubt McKenna’s sincerity. …
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Mary J. Blige takes a funky turn on her new single “Only Love.” The track follows her 2017 album Strength of a Woman. Blige goes into empowerment mode with her disco-inflected new single. She reveals how a new love helped pull her out of a time where she felt lost. …
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Bruce Springsteen has wrapped up every performance of Springsteen on Broadway with “Born To Run” since the show launched in October 2017, but on Tuesday night, he decided to deviate from the script. “You’re a beautiful audience,” he told the crowd after finishing “Born To Run.” “You’re so good, you …
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Saul Austerlitz’s new book Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy With the Rolling Stones at Altamont is the story of the concert that was going to be the West Coast Woodstock, and another triumph of the 1960s counterculture. Looking at the musicians, fans, filmmakers, bikers and journalists present …
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Meek Mill has unveiled a new EP. Legends of the Summer is the rapper’s first project he has revealed since he was released from prison on bail in April. The four-track set includes his previously post-jail released single with Miguel, “Stay Woke.” The pair performed the track at the BET …
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Tool‘s Maynard James Keenan denied accusations that he raped a 17-year-old woman in 2000, calling the allegation a “despicable false claim.” “Many thanks to those of you who saw right through this despicable false claim that only does damage to the #MeToo movement,” Keenan wrote on Twitter. “And shame on …
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Three days after undergoing surgery on his broken hand, Tom Morello was back onstage in Stockholm, Sweden, performing live with Prophets of Rage, the supergroup/“elite task force of revolutionary musicians” featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill. During the band’s Tuesday set, the guitarist got …
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At a party celebrating the release of Teyana Taylor‘s VII album in 2014, Kanye West gave a short speech praising the R&B singer, who is signed to his G.O.O.D. Music label. “Teyana provides something that’s so R&B, so black, so ‘hood, so missing, so necessary in the marketplace,” West asserted. …
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“Please feel free to be whoever it is you choose to be in this room tonight,” Harry Styles told the crowd at his sold-out show at New York’s Madison Square Garden Thursday night, as he strummed his guitar. The guy takes his own advice. He draped himself in the rainbow …
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