When Ravyn Lenae looks back at her childhood, there’s one image in particular that stands out to her. In it, she’s 12 years old and rocking a tutu skirt from Hot Topic on top of her jeans. It was a different time — before too many perceptions and opinions got …
Read More »Isaac Hayes Estate Demands $3 Million for Trump's Unauthorized Use of 'Hold On, I'm Coming'
Donald Trump is guilty of many crimes (starting with at least 34 felonies, to be exact), and one of them is questionable taste in music. We say “questionable,” not “bad,” because while the song choices at his campaign rallies are often fine in themselves, the former president has the nasty …
Read More »Miley Cyrus Tearfully Dedicates Disney Legend Honor to Hannah Montana: 'She Made Miley'
During her final audition for Hannah Montana, 12-year-old Miley Cyrus wore her heart on her sleeve and her life-changing manifestation on her chest. “I should have my own TV show,” read the shirt she wore beneath a blue jacket in the tape. She was right. In the nearly two decades …
Read More »Post Malone Says His Daughter Saved His Life Following 'Rough Path' Struggling With Loneliness
Post Malone doesn’t have to look far to find a reminder of his daughter: Her initials, “D.D.P.,” are tattooed on his forehead. The sweet tribute is just one example of how fatherhood has impacted Malone. During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the musician opened up about the ways in …
Read More »Sturgill Simpson Debuts Melancholy New Music at Outside Lands Festival
Sturgill Simpson is, once again, in the midst of an intriguing creative restart. The ambitious country/psych-rock/bluegrass artist announced earlier this summer that you can call him Johnny Blue Skies now, the better to match the melancholy tone of his eighth studio album, Passage du Desir. If you’re wondering why he’s …
Read More »Haley Joel Osment Thinks Kendrick Lamar Mistook Him for Joel Osteen on Purpose: 'He's Too Precise'
Though it was likely nothing in comparison to the volume of texts Drake probably received when Kendrick Lamar dropped “Euphoria,” Haley Joel Osment‘s phone was blowing up that day, too. Around the five-and-a-half minute mark of the nearly seven-minute-long diss track, Lamar makes a reference to Osment’s filmography but refers …
Read More »Celine Dion 'Does Not Endorse' Trump's Use of 'Titanic' Song at Rally
Donald Trump’s campaign has been hit with yet another artist not wanting their music being used by the candidate. This time, Celine Dion’s management and record label called out the GOP presidential nominee’s campaign for its “unauthorized usage” of “My Heart Will Go On,” one of her signature hits from …
Read More »Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg to Perform at Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony
Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Olympics correspondent Snoop Dogg — all Los Angeles-based artists — will perform at the 2024 Paris Olympics’ closing ceremony Sunday night as part of the “handover celebration” looking ahead to the LA28 games. H.E.R. was also deliver the National Anthem live from Paris …
Read More »Black Midi 'Indefinitely Over,' Singer of Acclaimed British Band Says
Black Midi, the London group whose brand of noise-rock and prog-punk weirdness earned them the title of “the most exciting new band in Britain” early in their career, has apparently called it quits. Fans of the band learned the band’s fate Saturday on social media, where singer/guitarist Geordie Greep was …
Read More »See Sabrina Carpenter, Kacey Musgraves Cover 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin” at Outside Lands
Sabrina Carpenter brought out guest Kacey Musgraves to cover the Nancy Sinatra hit “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” during the “Espresso” singer’s set at the San Francisco area’s Outside Lands Festival. “OK Bay Area, I have a surprise for you. Do you want it? “Well, I do have a …
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