Tuesday night on The Voice, Blake Shelton capped off a month of milestones by getting cozy in front of the fire with fellow coach Jennifer Hudson as they sang a duet of his latest single, “I’ll Name the Dogs.” There was a literal fireplace ablaze at the back of the …
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Taylor Swift‘s Reputation scored the best-selling week of 2017 – and became the year’s highest-selling album in total so far – as the singer’s latest Number One LP sold over 1.2 million copies in its debut week. Reputation marked the fourth time Swift crossed the platinum plateau in an opening …
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Chris Cornell was posthumously awarded Human Rights Watch’s inaugural Promise Award at a Los Angeles gala Tuesday, with System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, Soundgarden‘s Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron and Cornell’s widow Vicky Cornell on hand to honor the late singer. “We’re here tonight to honor a compassionate, just …
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Kinky Friedman has performed with Bob Dylan, traveled with Led Zeppelin and partied with John Belushi. When his cocaine habit nearly killed him, he returned to Texas and wrote 30 books, including 18 detective novels and memoirs featuring Willie Nelson and Billy Bob Thornton. More than 547,000 Texans voted for …
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Colin Kaepernick penned a message in support of Meek Mill and critical of the “criminal (in)justice system” after the rapper was sentenced to up four years in jail for probation violations. “Disproportionately America’s prisons are filled with Black bodies,” the NFL quarterback who spurred the anthem protests wrote on Instagram …
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In January, Fleetwood Mac will become the first band to receive the MusiCares Person of the Year Award. Harry Styles, Lorde, Haim and many other artists influenced by the group will gather at Radio City Music Hall two days before the 60th Annual Grammy Awards to pay tribute to the …
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Back in 2015, Shamir Bailey had the world at his fingertips. He had signed to XL, the label that helped turn artists like Adele, Vampire Weekend and FKA Twigs into megastars. His debut album,Ratchet, and viral electro-pop single “On the Regular” had earned him serious buzz. But between then and …
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In 2015, Jorge Fonseca, a veteran A&R for Sony Music Latin, made a trip to Puerto Rico in search of new sounds. “When you go to the island, the streets speak to you,” he tells Rolling Stone. “You hear the kids with the cars, and they tell you what’s happening.” …
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Neil Young reteams with Promise of the Real for a new album titled The Visitor, their second studio LP together following 2015’s The Monsanto Years. The album, due out December 1st, comes just three months after Young released Hitchhiker, his long-lost LP of acoustic songs recorded over one night in …
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Sam Smith and James Corden crooned heartbroken ballads during the latest episode of “Carpool Karaoke.” At the end of the segment, Corden surprised Smith – a committed Fifth Harmony fan – by inviting members of the pop quartet into the car to revisit their old hit “Work From Home.” This …
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