H.E.R. appeared onThe Late Late Show With James Corden on Tuesday night to perform her song “Carried Away.” The rising R&B star received five nominations for the 2019 Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist and Album of the Year. H.E.R. launched her performance on the acoustic guitar, lifting up the …
Read More »Apple Just Bought a Company that Acts Like a Record Label. Why?
The plan was to sell flowers. Following a successful music-industry career throughout the Eighties and Nineties, working with the likes of Kenny Loggins and Paul Simon, Denzyl Feigelson moved to Hawaii. There, semiretired, the South African exec launched an online floral company (based on the the bones of a sluggish, …
Read More »Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain Granted Restraining Order Against Ex-Manager
A judge has granted Courtney Love and her daughter Frances Bean Cobain a permanent restraining order (PRO) against her ex-manager Sam Lutfi, the Blast reported Wednesday. Rolling Stone has confirmed the report.Love’s sisterJaimee was already protected under Monday’s ruling. On Wednesday, the judge overseeing the case – who remembered Lutfi …
Read More »Valee and Z Money Could Be The Next Buddy-Cop Comedy Duo
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Valee and Z Money. Like the men before them, the two Chicago rappers have the type of undeniable chemistry that warrants a buddy cop franchise — tentative name: Two 16s. Consider their latest video, “Still Got Money” the perfect audition tape. …
Read More »Surprise Atoms For Peace Reunion Breaks Out at Thom Yorke Solo Gig
Thom Yorke was nearly done playing a solo show at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles last night when a surprise Atoms For Peace reunion materialized. Nigel Godrich is already a part of Yorke’s solo band, so it only took Flea and drummer Joey Waronker to flesh out the rest …
Read More »Why Fortnite Is Accused of Stealing Dance Moves
Fortnite may be the world’s most popular video game, with 200 million players and $1 billion in revenue, but for 2 Milly, it’s just the game that stole his signature dance move. The latest version of Fortnite adapts the Brooklyn rapper’s viral 2015 dance, the Milly Rock, as an “emote” …
Read More »Flashback: The Cure Play 'The Holy Hour' at 2011 Reunion Concert
The Cure are going to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame early next year, but what exactly is going to happen that night isn’t exactly clear. Every current member of the band is getting in besides guitarist Reeves Gabrels (who joined in 2012 and has yet to play …
Read More »The Best Music Books of 2018
This year’s best music books offers a mix of fascinating memoir, adventurous criticism and rich historical investigation. Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968,Ryan H. Walsh Van Morrison‘s1968 LP Astral Weeks was a landmark fusion of jazz, folk, rock and meditative soul. But its creation is as mysterious as the …
Read More »Grammys 2019: The 10 Biggest Snubs
What doAriana Grande, Travis Scott and J Balvin have in common? All were spurned to some degree by Grammy voters. The nominations for the 2019 awards ceremonywere announced on Friday morning, with Kendrick Lamar, Cardi B and Lady Gaga each picking up multiple nods in major categories. But each year, …
Read More »Soulja Boy Wants to Take Over the Gaming Industry One Console at a Time
Soulja Boy‘s voice is breaking up. He apologizes, the culprit is his house — it’s in the hills and possesses less than optimal reception — rapper problems. He’s already let his 5 million-plus followers on Twitter know that we’re going to talk: “Whoa I got rolling stone and Forbes requesting …
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