When Ray Padgett attended his first Bob Dylan concert at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom in 2004, he walked out feeling more than a little confused. He was just 18 then and expected a traditional oldies revue much like the Simon and Garfunkel reunion tour stop he’d seen the prior year. “I …
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Last week, as Knock2 prepared to release his debut album, Nolimit, smoke plumed outside his Southern California crib. The Eaton fire, which has since leveled thousands of structures, was picking up momentum in the mountains near his apartment. The 25-year-old electronic music artist, born Richard Nakhonethap, says he grabbed his …
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When audiences pile into Broadway’s Hudson Theater to watch All In: A Comedy About Love, chances are they’re not looking at the husband-and-wife duo tuning their instruments on either side of the stage. The show of vignettes, created by author Simon Rich, is only onstage for a 10-week limited engagement, …
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The past few years have been freeing for Yola. The genre-spanning British singer left Nashville, moved to the New York area (and started dating), earned her first role on Broadway (as Persephone in Hadestown), and began work on the next phase of her musical career. That era of Yolanda Quartey …
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Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, 21 Savage goes back home to his native London to team up with U.K. rap star Central Cee, indie hero Lucy Dacus returns with a stunning track off …
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It’s a new year with the same beef. On Wednesday, Drake upped the ante of the Great Rap War by filing a federal lawsuit against his label, Universal Music Group (UMG), for defamation and harassment for their support of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” UMG also distributes Lamar’s music through …
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In the earliest days of MTV, few songs were more inescapable than Devo’s fractured New Wave classic “Whip It.” With hardly any bands making music videos when MTV launched in 1981, the fledgling network, desperate for content, played the song nearly every hour, turning “Whip It” into one of the …
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In the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, the music community has stepped up with financial aid from MusiCares and other forms of monetary and emotional support. There is also a growing list of benefit concerts, both in California and around the U.S., with proceeds going toward those impacted …
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LiAngelo Ball is the first breakout rapper of 2025, though up until now, he was better known as a basketball player. Def Jam, who reportedly signed Ball to a record deal (including his own label) worth as much as $13 million, is betting on that dynamic changing. The hefty contract …
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Peter Forrest — who, as P. Fluid, was lead singer and frontman of the pioneering Black rock band 24/7 Spyz — has died at the age of 64. On Jan. 14th, Forrest’s body was found badly beaten in the back of an abandoned ambulette bus in the Bronx. Forrest, who …
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