Judas Priest announced that its longtime guitarist, Glenn Tipton, is taking a step back from touring due to his battle with Parkinson’s disease. The heavy metal legends willembark on their Firepower Tour in March. “Ten years ago Glenn was diagnosed to have the onset of the early stages of Parkinson’s,” …
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Quentin Tarantinowalked back controversial comments he made onThe Howard Stern Showin 2003 regarding Samantha Geimer, a teenager whom Roman Polanski raped. “I want to publicly apologize to Samantha Geimer for my cavalier remarks on speculating about her and the crime that was committed against her,” the directorsaid in the statement. …
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Late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton will be honored on what would have been his 56th birthday, with Alameda County, California proclaiming February 10th “Cliff Burton Day.” The proclamation comes after Metallica fans started a Change.org petition to recognize Burton in his hometown of Castro Valley. Metallica announced the news on …
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Scotty McCreery embraces a fresh chapter with “In Between,” a newly released track from his upcoming third album Seasons Change. Written by the singer with Frank Rogers, Jessi Alexander and Jonathan Singleton, the authoritative anthem presents a mature, nuanced view of life – one where there’s a time and place …
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On Friday, the White House cleared the release of the controversial four-page memo written by Rep. Devin Nunes, chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.President Trump’sdecision comes after Republicans on the committee voted to declassify the memo earlier this week. Democrats on the committee opposed its release, as …
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Like a church choir staring down the apocalypse, Darlingside sing about the modern world’s iffy future – including political unrest and nuclear fallout — on the Massachusetts band’s anxious, harmony-heavy Extralife. The new album arrives February 23rd, with the lead single “Futures” kicking things off on a cautiously optimistic note. …
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Following his big night at the 60th Grammy Awards, Chris Stapleton turned The Late Show With Stephen Colbert into a church of righteous reflection on Tuesday night (January 30) with an anguished rendition of the his ballad “Drunkard’s Prayer.” Part of his outstanding From A Room: Volume 2 LP, the …
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Franz Ferdinand made one of the greatest debuts of all time back in 2004 with their self-titled LP – 11 tracks of flawless disco-punk that could’ve been a lesser band’s greatest-hits package. They’ve never been daunted by the mixed blessing of having started so strong – not even now, as …
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Jennifer Hudson will portray Aretha Franklin in an upcoming biopic about the Queen of Soul, Clive Davis revealed Saturday night at his annual pre-Grammys party. Davis made the announcement while introducing Hudson at the Jay-Z-honoring gala, where the singer performed a medley of Franklin’s hits including “Think,” “Rock Steady” and …
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A new study by theUSC Annenberg Inclusion Initiativefinds that over the last six years, women have been vastly underrepresented in popular music. The study analyzed 600 songs from the Billboard Hot 100 released between 2012 and 2017 and found only 22 percent of those songs were by female artists. Even …
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