Taylor Swift‘s Folklore takes Number One the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart for a third straight week, topping the chart with 133,300 units during the week of August 7th through August 13th. After seeing the biggest debut on the RS 200 since Lover, Folklore moved 64,700 sales and 83 …
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When Covid-19 shut down the live music industry and screwed Pat Finnerty out of his job as a working musician, the 40-year-old Scranton, Pennsylvania, native started fucking around on Instagram live. For the first two months of quarantine, he challenged himself to see if he could learn every part to …
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If the lady’s feelin’ just like the moon she loves, then Miley Cyrus is lighting her path beneath the “Midnight Sky” with the brightest, fullest moon possible. The 27-year-old Disney darling-turned-pop provocateur has returned with yet another bold reinvention, looking to the raw arena rock vocals and the pristinely glossy …
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When it comes to introductions, a new artist could do a lot worse than launching the rhetorical question, “Why you hating like a jive sucka?” Those are the first words that tumble out of Teezo Touchdown‘s mouth in the video for “SUCKA!” Decked in a white tank top, dramatically sagged …
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Three people associated with R. Kelly were arrested on accusations that they attempted to intimidate or pay off victims and witnesses connected with the singer’s upcoming trials. Richard Arline Jr., Kelly’s former adviser Donnell Russell, and Michael Williams were each charged separately for their roles in the alleged harassment scheme, …
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Trey Anastasio has spent the last several months in his New York apartment, recording the raw, lo-fi album Lonely Trip. But on Tuesday, he ventured out to become late-night television’s first in-person guest since March, performing his excellent new song “I Never Needed You Like This Before” with the Roots …
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Smash Mouth was one of several bands to perform for a packed crowd in Sturgis, South Dakota, Sunday, August 9th, as part of the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The concerts were part of an extensive programming itinerary at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip, a biker campground and outdoor venue. Video …
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I Am a Woman “Male groups are all the rage right now,” a label executive tells Helen Reddy (Tilda Cobham-Hervey). She fires back: “Did it ever occur to you men to ask women what they want to listen to?” In 1971, they wanted to hear Reddy’s anthem “I Am Woman.” …
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Hulu‘sHigh Fidelity series, starring Zoë Kravitz, has been canceled after one season, Variety confirmed on Wednesday evening. Kravitz starred as Rob, a pop culture-obsessed record store owner in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, who confronts several past failed romances. The show was a gender-bending, modern retelling of the Nick Hornby novel, later …
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Merck Mercuriadis‘s big year doesn’t seem to be slowing down yet. The manager-turned-music investor’s IP acquisition group Hipgnosis Songs Fund bought two more notable catalogs, it announced Wednesday — this time from Blondie co-founders Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, securing both their writers’ shares and neighboring rights for their entire …
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