Multiple people were shot outside a Miami Gardens, Florida restaurant where a French Montana event was taking place Thursday night, Jan. 5. The restaurant, the Licking — which is part of a restaurant group owned by DJ Khaled — confirmed that the incident took place while the music video was …
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Pop is always a little more interesting when Skrillex is around. The hardcore artist-turned-megaproducer/DJ helped popularize dubstep in the mainstream while also ushering an EDM-forward era of both pop music and rap. But in the last several years, he quietly stepped back from being one of our most prolific stars, …
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In Between Days, the Massachusetts music festival, will welcome Modest Mouse as headliners this August. The performance announcement comes after drummer and founding member Jeremiah Green died on Dec. 31 following a battle with cancer. “Modest Mouse’s management has indicated to us that the band is committed to performing at …
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Triller, the short-video social media app, is facing another lawsuit from a major music publisher claiming it fails to pay licensing fees outlined in its contracts. Universal Music Publishing sued Triller in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday, alleging Triller “repeatedly failed to deliver on its promises” to meet …
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Fans of Celine Dion gathered outside the offices of Rolling Stone on Friday afternoon to protest the superstar vocalist’s exclusion from our recent list of The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. The small but vociferous cadre of Dion devotees sang and shouted and held signs that read “How Can …
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On “Kill Bill,” SZA sings about wanting to kill her ex, not Taylor Swift. Get it right, stans! SZA clarified that she and the Midnights singer aren’t fighting after stans conflated the two artists promoting their music with the two women fighting. After thanking her fans for “copping” digital versions …
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Matt Shultz, the lead singer of Cage The Elephant, was detained by New York Police Thursday morning for possessing two loaded firearms at the Bowery Hotel in Lower Manhattan, NYPD confirmed to Rolling Stone. The musician was charged with criminal possession of firearms after police found Shultz’s guns — a …
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The lead singer of Y2K rockers Alien Ant Farm was charged with battery following an incident at a Florida concert where he touched his own genitals with the outreached hand of a fan. The Broward State Attorney’s Office charged Dryden Mitchell, frontman for the band best known for their nu-metal …
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Diane Warren put together the ultimate girl group to sing “Gonna Be You,” the song she wrote for the forthcoming film, 80 for Brady. Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, and Gloria Estefan will join voices with the Go-Gos’ Belinda Carlisle and Blondie’s Debbie Harry for the new film theme song, out …
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Quavo shared “Without YOU” on Wednesday night, a tribute song to his nephew and Migos bandmate Takeoff, who was shot and killed in Houston on Nov. 1. The black and white video shows Quavo sitting in a studio with his eyes closed and smoking while listening to the raw and …
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