Eric Church continues to tell the story of Mr. Misunderstood through the eyes of Mickey Smay, the bespectacled teenager from the cover of the Chief’s 2015 LP, in the new video for “Round Here Buzz.” Tracing a love story that begins at a football game and is sealed with a …
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Julia Michaels took stock of the petty side of romance during a performance of new single “Worst in Me” on The Tonight Show on Monday. “Worst in Me” catalogs the envy and spite that seep slowly into relationships. “It’s almost like I’ve gotten so used to resentment that every annoying …
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All five living former U.S. presidents – Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Bush and Jimmy Carter – united onstage together to help raise funds for hurricane victims as part of Saturday’s One America Appealevent, which featured a surprise appearance by Lady Gaga. “The heart of America, without …
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When Margo Price returned to Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis late last year to begin tracking the follow-up to Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, uncertainty and change were hanging in the air. Donald Trump had just been elected president, and his popular MAGA refrain sounded to many like regressive action, a rolling …
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The Smithsonian announced a Kickstarterpage on Tuesday to raise funds for the nine-CD Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. The compilation is a joint project between Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the National Museum of African American History and Culture and an executive committee containing prominent members of the hip-hop community like …
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Sia has announced her new seasonal album Everyday Is Christmas, a collection of 10 original tracks the singer wrote alongside producer Greg Kurstin. Everyday Is Christmas, the festive follow-up to Sia‘s 2016 album This Is Acting and her first album for Atlantic Records,arrives November 17th. Pre-orders for the album begin …
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Tank, a veteran singer with a decade and a half of R&B hits, remembers the moment when rappers took over the airwaves. “Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are the Jesuses of melody rap,” he says. “What they did was theirs at the time; nobody could touch it, so nobody did. But when Nelly …
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Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum will headline a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of Musicians on Call. Set for October 26th at Nashville’s City Winery, the show will be hosted by country-radio personality Bobby Bones and feature yet to be announced special guests. The nonprofit bills itself as “the most …
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Jerrod Niemann has a long history of reinvention. After two traditional-leaning independent albums early in his career, he pulled a 180 and scored big with 2010’s Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury, a quirky outlier for its time that included the R&B-influenced hits “Lover, Lover” and “What Do You Want.” …
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Demi Lovato is at her pop-princess best when her majestic wail takes over, as the high points of the singer’s sixth album attest. The title track channels the brassy clamor of her 2015 smash “Confident” into maximum-overdrive R&B; “Sexy Dirty Love” throws back to the robo-funk era, with Lovato using …
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