Without Joe Strummer, Eddie Vedder would have never found his way to Jack Irons, and subsequently Pearl Jam. During a show the Clash singer played in November 1989, Vedder ended up becoming Strummer’s right hand man during an unexpected power outage. The fateful case of right place, right time brought …
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Chicago, IL — R. Kelly’s former goddaughter testified that she had sex with the disgraced singer for the first time when she was 15, and that they had sex “hundreds” of times, sometimes with other underage girls. The goddaughter, now 37 and testifying at Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago Thursday …
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Viva Las Vengeance! As Panic! at the Disco released its seventh studio album, the group’s frontman Brendan Urie starred as “the Duke” in the choreo-filled, medieval times-themed video for “Sad Clown.” The Brendan Walter-directed video sees Urie showing off his best dance moves and belting musical theater-ready vocals for a …
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Young Thug was denied bond yet again Thursday during a heated hearing in his RICO case where his lawyer suggested the Grammy-winning rapper is the subject of a law enforcement vendetta dating back to a 2015 drive-by shooting of Lil Wayne’s tour bus. Lead defense lawyer Brian Steel invoked the …
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Things start creepy, then get hella sexy in this one. On Friday, Tokischa released the video for her over-the-top explicit (we’re used to it at this point and love her for it) video for “Delincuente,” which features fellow reggaetoneros Anuel AA and Ñengo Flow. The Raymi Paulus-directed visual opens with …
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Blinks: the Born Pink era has officially commenced. On Thursday night, K-pop superstars Blackpink released “Pink Venom,” the lead single off their forthcoming album, Born Pink, out Sept. 16. The earworm starts with a voice chanting the group’s name, before exploding into a rap verse backed by a sticky electronic …
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Almost Famous is so beloved that even its deleted scenes are widely known — from Frances McDormand cringing to “Stairway to Heaven” to the radio station scene with Kyle Gass. Now, lines from the intimate ice cube scene with Penny Lane and Russell Hammond are being used in a duet …
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Lukas Graham is thinking about those long-lost friends who you wish could reconnect with. On Thursday, the Danish vocalist enlisted Khalid for a track embodying those feelings of longing titled “Wish You Were Here,” written alongside noted pop hitmaker, OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder. “‘Wish You Were Here’is an anthem to the …
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It’s an overcast weekday afternoon in August, and Westside Boogie is holed up in a recording studio just off Sunset Blvd. in Echo Park. Less than six weeks removed from the release of his second studio album, June’s More Black Superheroes, the Compton native is trying to stick to an …
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As undeniable pop goes, it’s hard to top “The Middle,” the unstoppable 2018 banger that brought together new-country heavyweight Maren Morris, German-Russian DJ Zedd (a.k.a. Anton Zaslavski), and the EDM duo Grey. The unlikely collaboration spent 40 weeks on the pop chart and was used in a Target ad; to …
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