Tom Rapp, the leader of the beloved psych rock outfit Pearls Before Swine and a longtime civil rights lawyer, died in hospice at his home in Melbourne, Florida. He was 70. A representative for the record label Drag City, reissued Pearls Before Swine’s debutOne Nation Undergroundlast year, confirmed the musician’s …
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Bruno Mars extended his massive 24K Magic world tour with a final run of North American shows. The trek, which features his “Finesse” collaborator Cardi B, now wraps with a block of new dates spanning September 7th in Denver, Colorado to a four-night stand in Los Angeles on October 23rd, …
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Calvin Harristeamed with Canadian musicianPartyNextDoor on “Nuh Ready Nuh Ready.”The dancehall-tinged cut is embellished by skipping percussion, light synth plunks and stray horn riffs. The music video is a distorted, surreal creation showing PartyNextDoor super-imposed over shots of London. In an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 Radio, Harris …
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In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone Country, Vince Gill detailed an unreleased song he had written titled “Forever Changed.” While notable then, the deeply personal ballad takes on much more weight today: its subject matter deals with sexual abuse. Gill performed the song during a concert at Nashville’s Ryman …
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Long before Justin Timberlake took the field at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Sunday night, and even before the Philadelphia Eagles faced off with the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII, Carrie Underwood got the party started with the video for her new fight song with Ludacris, “The …
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Let’s be honest: By all accounts, The Good Place shouldn’t work. It’s a primetime network comedy – NBC, former home of Outsourced and Sean Saves the World – that breaks every primetime network comedy commandment, having spent its sophomore season blowing up its own premise every Thursday night. Other than …
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As science has proven time and again, Valentine’s Day is a corporate invention designed to extract money from the public by exploiting our capacity for love. So what better way to rebel against that than holing up in your living room and watching TV until your eyeballs bleed? Netflix and …
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Every now and then, one has to class the place up a bit. For bro-country bad boy Brantley Gilbert, that’ll be May 4th when the Georgia native performs in Nashville backed by a full orchestra. Led by conductor Jim Gray, whose resume includes performing with Miranda Lambert, Imagine Dragons and …
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Roger Daltrey will perform the Who‘s Tommy in its entirety on a 10-city summer tour, with the singer teaming with a local orchestra to play the classic 1969 album at each stop. “I’m really looking forward to singing Tommy, not only with my great backing group, but also some of …
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The 60th annual Grammy Awards returns to New York for the first time in 15 years when the music industry descends upon Madison Square Garden Sunday night. This year’s ceremony finds James Corden returning as host for the second year in a row, with performances by Bruno Mars, Rihanna, U2, …
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