Nothing says “outlaw” like a Caribbean cruise, and for the fourth year running the Outlaw Country Cruise will set sail in January 2019. When it does, it will have a stacked lineup including Drive-By Truckers, Margo Price and Lucinda Williams all onboard. Run in conjunction by Steve Van Zandt’s Renegade …
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This year’s 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards arrived with a pall cast over the show, as it was the first time the country music community convened in Las Vegas since the Route 91 Harvest festival. On October 1st, a gunman shot and killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more …
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Kanye West is writing a philosophy booked called Break the Simulation, he toldThe Hollywood Reporter. The rapper discussed the project, which will be about art and spirituality, in conversation with his interior designer, Axel Vervoordt. “I’ve got a concept about photographs … about human beings being obsessed with photographs – …
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Arcade Fire recruited Chrissie Hynde to perform the Pretenders‘ “Don’t Get Me Wrong” during the band’s London concert on Wednesday. The singer also joined the art-rockers for their show-closing anthem “Wake Up.” For “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” a single from the Pretenders‘ 1986 LP, Get Close, Hynde alternated vocals with …
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Cardi B spoke candidly about a lot of firsts on Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning on Monday. The 25-year-old rapper discussed her first full-length album,Invasion of Privacy,andher firstpregnancy, which she confirmed days prior while performing – for the first time – onSaturday Night Live. “I just wanted this for …
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In the latter half of the Sixties, British rock groups faced a daunting challenge: how to bridge the chasm between the American-inspired Mersey Beat so beloved earlier in the decade, and the kaleidoscopic psychedelia that had taken its place. Only a handful of acts pulled off the creative leap, and …
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Various Artists, Revamp: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin | ★★★Various Artists, Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin| ★★★★ There’s a valedictory air hovering over these Elton John tribute albums, and no wonder: John recently announced his final tour, the capper to nearly …
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Mike Myers revived Dr. Evil on The Tonight Show Wednesday for a sketch in which Jimmy Fallon chatted with the Austin Powers villain about his recent firing from President Donald Trump’s administration. In the bit, Dr. Evil said he was originally brought to the White House to serve as Secretary …
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“OK, listen, I gotta play you something.” Tracy Morgan gestures to a young man, one of a gaggle of publicists and assistants and network reps hovering around the periphery of an Austin conference room. Some of them are checking their phones, or pretending to. Others are simply staring nervously at …
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Jay-Z explains that it takes a good voice and good flow to be a great rapper in a preview from his upcoming interview with David Letterman on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. “You can have a great voice, and you can just almost say anything,” Jay-Z tells the former …
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