21 Savage is, finally, a free man. After spending nine days in a notoriously harsh detention center outside of Atlanta, Georgia the rapper (real name She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph)has been released on bond. Rolling Stone confirmed the release with his legal team. “In the last 24 hours, in the wake of …
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Earlier this month, someone in the White House leaked months worth of President Trump’s private daily schedules. They confirmed the obvious: Trump is lazy as hell, with unstructured “Executive Time” making up around 60 percent of his workday over the past three months. According to Axios, which obtained the schedules, …
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Rap ignored the 2019 Grammys. Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino were nominated across the board, but opted not to attend, along with Jay-Z and Kanye West. In a surprise move, though, Drake decided to cross the picket line. As he hit the stage to accept his Best Rap Song award …
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Before a gathered crowd of supporters in Lawrence, Mass., Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced her candidacy for president, framing her campaign as a “fight of our lives.” “This is the fight of our lives. The fight to build an America where dreams are possible, an America that works for everyone,” …
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Maren Morris and Brandi Carlile offer a powerful meditation on the struggle for understanding in their new duet “Common.” The song appears on Morris’ new album Girl. Rather than trafficking in uplifting platitudes, “Common” takes a more somber, alienated look at human relations. “When it’s over, when it’s done, when …
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Maren Morris stepped onstage at her hometown stadium in Arlington, Texas, in October to sing a song with the night’s headliner, Taylor Swift. “I . . . categorize myself as a superfan,” Swift told the audience. “I listened to [her] album over and over. I know soon she will be playing stadiums this size.” …
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British singer-songwriter MNEK snatches a girl’s boyfriend in the sleek, cheeky video for his single, “Girlfriend.” The song appeared on his 2018 debut LPLanguage. The video begins with a man taking a phone call from his irate girlfriend as MNEK listens from bed. The man lies to said girlfriend, saying …
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Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan will unite for a massive co-headlining tour this summer. McDonald will kick off the trek with a solo gig June 19th at the Motor City Casino in Detroit, Michigan, though Khan will join him the next night at the Rose Music Center at the Heights …
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Remember when indie rock sounded all grimy, corroded and metal-sludgy – the last thing you’d hear in a commercial or being played at an arena show? Warish do. On “Fight,” from the SoCal band’s debut EP, the grubby, a stoner-rock riff is the first hint, followed by a gas-guzzling rhythm …
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It’s rare that one gets to witness the passing of the torch from one generation to the next, but that’s exactly what happened at the annual Country Cares for St. Jude Songwriter’s Dinner in Memphis on January 26th. It started out as an impromptu sing-along, but Michael Ray and Jake …
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