Lil Nas X wants to break out of the box he’s been confined to — and part of that involves breaking the rules. It’s fitting, then, that his new single “Light Again” is being positioned as the start of a new era, the first phase of a project titled Dreamboy. …
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In 1980, two months before his assassination outside the Dakota Apartments in New York, John Lennon was gifted a Patek Philippe watch by his wife Yoko Ono for his 40th birthday. Ono purchased the timepiece for $25,000, an amount that would equal $95,500 today, and holds an estimated value of …
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The Kid Laroi has dropped a new single, “Slow It Down,” which features Quavo. The track centers on a lyrical reinterpretation ofJuvenile’s 2003 number“Slow Motion” as the dual singers croon,“You’re moving too fast, I’m trying to make it last.” The song marks the first collaboration between The Kid Laroi and …
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Elton John and Brandi Carlile have shared a joint single, “Never Too Late.” The song appears in documentary, Elton John: Never Too Late, out Dec. 13 on Disney+. Carlile wrote the song after seeing an early cut of the documentary, and took influence from Bernie Taupin’s signature style. She and …
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The Recording Academy prides itself on having shaped the Grammy Awards into the most coveted award in music through a peer-based voting process. An artist’s track record with the show can be career-defining, even history-making. People from all sectors of the industry influence who gets nominated and who takes home …
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Rising reggae star Mortimer and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley have dropped a powerful and unsettling new visual for their recent collaboration, “In My Time.” Like the song, the new visual — directed by Pete Beng — takes stock of the state of the world in several clever, surreal, and haunting …
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Zayn Malik has postponed the first two shows of his Stairway to the Sky tour, which will now begin next week in the U.K. While the “heartbreaking” death of former One Direction band mate Liam Payne moved Malik to push his first-ever U.S. tour to 2025, “unforeseen circumstances” forced the …
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Peter Sinfield, King Crimson’s lyricist, live technical wizard, and roadie, died Thursday, Nov. 14. He was 80. Sinfield’s death was confirmed by Discipline Global Mobile, the record label founded by King Crimson’s Robert Fripp. No cause of death was given, though the statement did mention that Sinfield “had been suffering …
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Grammy-winning Chicago rapper Lil Durk has pleaded not guilty to charges he directed a murder-for-hire plot that led to the shooting death of Georgia rapper Quando Rondo’s cousin at a Los Angeles gas station two years ago. The 32-year-old artist, born Durk Banks, entered the plea Thursday and was remanded …
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T-Pain is standing on the frontlines to protect real lovers from bitter loners after teaming up with Mark Zuckerberg on a special acoustic cover of “Get Low.” The pair cut the Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz record as a gift to the META founder’s wife in honor of their …
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