Big things are expected this year out of Apple Music, the music-streaming service that has far surpassed critics’ initial grumblings during its 2015 launch that it’d be an irredeemable failure. The premium-only subscription service now has more than 50 million paying users – and what’s more, the speed of its …
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Original Guns N’ Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin discussed why he opted out of the band’s ongoing reunion tour in a short statement toThe Wall Street Journal. “The current GnR tour has been a great success for the guys,” Stradlin said. “My non-participation was simply not being able to reach a …
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Pusha-T, Daytona “I predict snow/Al Roker,” raps Pusha-T on this seven-track project’s “If You Know You Know.” But Daytona is more than just drug tales from a rapper who has specialized in coke rap since the dawn of the Aughts. As a master of metaphor and …
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Colin Kaepernick is suing the National Football League for colluding against him, and his case keeps improving. One day before the league announced its stupefying plan to suppress the protests against racial injustice, documents and testimony uncovered by Kaepernick’s lawsuit revealed that teams consider him talented enough to be a …
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J Balvin spoke about working with Beyoncé on the remix of “Mi Gente” and solidifying reggaeton’s spot in the pop music landscape during an interview with Ebro Darden on Beats 1. “I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a …
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Grizzly Bear have lined up a fall U.S. tour in support of the band’s latest album Painted Ruins, one of Rolling Stone‘s 50 Best Albums of 2017. Following the group’s co-headlining tour with Spoon this summer, Grizzly Bear will return to the road for a 10-date trek that kicks off …
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Artist manager Scooter Braun has called on Nashville and country musicians to stand up for common sense gun-law reform, speaking at the annual Music Biz conference on Thursday. Braun, whose superstar clients include Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande – the pop star whose concert in Manchester, England, was the scene …
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As he prowled through gallery after gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, with each passing minute Wolfgang Voigt was becoming visibly agitated. The minimal techno legend and Kompakt label co-founder was looking for something simple but elusive in Midtown Manhattan: silence. A hallway of windows looks out on a …
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The Beastie Boys‘ long-awaited memoir, the aptly titled Beastie Boys Book, will be released October 30th via publishers Spiegel and Grau. The group’s two surviving members, Mike D and Ad-Rock, penned the 592-page book, but also solicited contributions from an array of guests including Amy Poehler, Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze, …
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Though the Trump administration is celebrating Monday’s official opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, the move does not appear to have brought about any semblance of peace. An estimated 35,000 Palestinians lined the fence separating the Gaza Strip and Israel in protest, and at least 58 have been …
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