Sunday night before MTV’s Video Music Awards, the twice-nominated British pop star Rita Ora turned New York’s Terminal 5 into a mini stadium show complete with new songs, old tracks, a fleet of backup dancers and even surprise celebrity guest Liam Payne. The former One Direction singer came out for …
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Mastodon‘s Brent Hinds is selling off items from his personal instrument collection – guitars, organs and more used in the recording of the heavy metal band’s albums – through Reverb.com. “There comes a time in your life when you have to get rid of everything and for me, that time …
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Gloria Estefan praised Aretha Franklin as the ultimate inspiration for any girl aspiring to sing, or any fan that wanted to appreciate a true master of their craft. Franklin died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at age 76. In a note on Instagram, Estefan said of her VH1 Divas partner, “For …
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After a series of rollout delays, Nicki Minaj dropped her long-anticipated fourth album, Queen, on Friday. Paired with a track-by-track commentary broadcast on Apple’s Beats 1 Radio and a hefty social media campaign (bolstered by her ever-enthusiastic army of Barbz), Nicki and her team did everything in their power to …
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Taylor Swift’s currentReputation tour is heavily centered around material from her new album, but there’s one major exception. On a spare second stage, Swift ditches choreography, picks up an acoustic guitar and revives an old song “I haven’t played in so long.” So far, they have included fan favorites “Our …
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When Travis Scott failed to earn a Grammy nomination for 2016’sBirds in the Trap Sing McKnight, “that was a real dark day,” says Sickamore, the rapper’s longtime A&R, who now works at Interscope Records. Scott returned on Friday withAstroworld,an imposing LPthat’s at once baroque and bludgeoning, sludgy and slick. The …
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David Hadfield was combing through old boxes in the storage space of his Surrey, England home about 20 years ago when a bread basket from his father’s long-ago days as a bread delivery man caught his eye. Inside was a series of dusty tapes from Hadfield’s time as a rock …
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Sonny “Skrillex” Moore reunited with former band From First to Last for a thrilling new song “Surrender,” which screamo/post-hardcore band released as a free download through their Twitter. https://soundcloud.com/from-first-to-last/surrender-2 From First to Last teased “Surrender” both onstage and with a studio clip on Instagram. Moore hyped the track Monday on …
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Foo Fighters‘ Chris Shiflett is selling 20 guitars from his personal collection, including ones he used during his tenure with the rock band. “I have an excess of guitars that I’ve gotten over the years —I have more than I could even really play and more than I do play. …
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A widower seeks a fresh start in the colorful yet poignant video for Beck‘s remix of U2‘s “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way.” For the animated clip, U2 once again tapped the Israeli graffiti collective, Broken Fingaz Crew, who previously helmed their videos for “American Soul” and “Get …
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