“The song never got no radio play ’til now,” says Juicy J of “Slob on My Knob”: He released it about 25 years ago, but his voice couldn’t really be heard rapping it until a recent appearance on a remix of G-Eazy‘s “No Limit.” “It was always an underground song, …
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When Chris Stapleton performed “Tennessee Whiskey” and “Drink You Away” with Justin Timberlake at the 2015 CMA Awards, he became an instant star – practically overnight, sales of his Traveller LP skyrocketed and his live show was suddenly one of country’s hottest tickets. However, Stapleton’s fortunes with radio have been …
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It was the winter of 1967–68, andJimi Hendrix was looking for a recording studio in New York. His second album, Axis: Bold as Love, was an FM-radio favorite and he had a road case full of tapes he had recorded in London that he was ready to rework. Warner/Reprise had …
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Keegan-Michael Key plays himself as an overeager new volunteer on Illinois gubernatorial candidate Chris Kennedy’s campaign in a comedic new clip ahead of next week’s primary election. In the three-minute video, Key presents a series of “election-winning great ideas” for the candidate, including getting the FBI to tap Kennedy’s phones, …
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Scotty McCreery is enjoying a midday glass of white wine at a Nashville rooftop bar, and no one is giving him grief about it. This is notable, because the sheer idea of the onetime American Idol winner being in the same room with alcohol has been enough to make some …
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Lil Yachty‘s 2016 debut and New Atlanta classic Lil Boat gave rise to a cherubic pop gamine with Twizzler-colored hair beads and a candy-coated Auto-Tune voice. But on its lesser sequel, the kid whose otherworldly Eeyore-ish melodies sparked hit appearances with Billboard champs like Calvin Harris and D.R.A.M. is mostly …
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Jason Derulo has unveiled his exuberant new song “Colors,” which serves as one of the anthems for the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. “Through my years of travel, I’ve been able to see the beauty in our cultural differences and I wrote ‘Colors’ to celebrate that diversity and …
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Three years before Justin Timberlake stopped shaving and retreated to a cabin in the woods, bearded Colorado singer Nathaniel Rateliff was already showing the appeal – and power – of rustic-white-dude soul. Rateliff looked like Garth Hudson, and his woodsy take on vintage Southern R&B was on point enough to …
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“It was a dark and stormy night.” That’s the first sentence of Madeline L’Engle’s 1962 fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time, a smoke-screen opening salvo that doesn’t begin to prep readers for what lies ahead in this beloved kids’ book: tesseracts and shape-shifting biddies, shadowy forces and M.I.A. fathers, interdimensional …
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Kobe Bryant‘s Oscar win Sunday night sparked plenty of indignation on social media given the current call-out culture and an awards season where sexual harassment and assault have been at the forefront of discussions about the industry. The NBA star, who took home an Oscar for an animated short he …
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