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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Before he became one of country music’s leading men, Vince Gill left his mark on the genre as a top-shelf instrumentalist, logging time in Pure Prairie League’s late-Seventies lineup and Ricky Skaggs’ backup band. As the guest on this week’s installment of Walking the Floor, he happily geeks out with …
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Starting this weekend, CMT’s Hot 20 Countdown is set to fire up a new in-episode special they’re calling ’90s Country Forever, a weekly series highlighting the songs and stars that shaped country music in the 1990s – and how those tunes have impacted the country genre of today. Featuring Nineties …
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Post Malone recently went viral after getting the phrase “Always Tired” tattooed across his face, but it wasn’t much fun. “He said it felt like I was tattooing his eyeballs,” says his tattoo artist Chad Rowe. Malone isn’t the only artist making his mother’s worst nightmare come true. Getting face …
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It’s been 13 years since System of a Down released their last record – for a variety of reasons, though the alt-metal band’s members claim to get along – so this album from guitarist Daron Malakian’s other project represents a welcome return to the SOaD sound. Although Scars on Broadway’s previous …
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Talk to Scotty Bowers, and he’ll tell you that he banged and/or blew every major star of Hollywood‘s Golden Age. (The 95-year-old is likely to use a more salty, colorful phrase that rhymes.) Bette Davis? Yup, he slept with her. Walter Pidgeon? That character actor used the old “come take …
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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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Shooter Jennings unveils his latest album, the eponymous Shooter, on August 10th. Ahead of the LP’s release, the country scion has been premiering songs via a quirky series of videos that send up Hee Haw, each anchored by a live performance from Jennings and his band. The newest spotlights “Denim …
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Earlier this year, 29-year-old Mayra and her two young children fled a life of domestic violence and gang threats in Mexico. The trio crossed the U.S. border at Nogales, Arizona, where they told Border Patrol Agents that they were seeking asylum. The agents asked for their birth certificates and identification, …
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