Jam Master Jay “was nervous about something” days before he was killed, according to witness testimony on Thursday at the Brooklyn trial for two men accused of killing the Run-D.M.C. DJ in 2002. The Associated Press reports that Stephon Watford, a cousin and business associate of the late DJ (whose …
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This Kid Krow is no longer Superache-ing. On Wednesday, Conan Gray announced his third album, Found Heaven, co-produced by Max Martin, Greg Kurstin, and Shawn Everett. The album is due out on April 5. Gray will also release “Lonely Dancers,” the fourth single off the album, on Feb. 9. Gray …
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Dead & Company’s “final tour” wasn’t the end of the road for the Grateful Dead offshoot, as the John Mayer-featuring band has confirmed they’ll reconvene this spring for a lengthy residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere. The group — featuring Dead legends Bob Weir and Mickey Hart alongside Mayer, bassist Oteil …
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Whoever first said that distance makes the heart grow fonder might have been onto something. Singer-songwriters Del Water Gap and Holly Humberstone have experienced first-hand the gravitational pull of oceans separating them from the people they want to be closest to — and they poured those memories into their latest …
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While Taylor Swift has been in the stands to cheer on her boyfriend Travis Kelce at a slew of his football games this year, she will have to feel his support from afar on Sunday night at the 2024 Grammy Awards. During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show Wednesday, …
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From singing backup at Elvis Presley’s 1968 comeback TV special to writing Michael Jackson‘s “She’s Out of My Life” to arranging the vocals on Billy Joel’s An Innocent Man, longtime Quincy Jones collaborator Tom Bahler has had an improbably jam-packed music career. But as he sees it, the peak of …
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Jam Master Jay exclaimed “Oh shit” just before he was shot and killed in October 2002, according to testimony given in court on Wednesday. Uriel “Tony” Rincon, a friend and business associate of the late DJ (whose real name was Jason Mizell) explained his recollection of what happened when assailants …
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On the fifth day of Nicki Minaj’s intense fixation on Megan Thee Stallion following a jab the “Savage” rapper likely threw Minaj’s way on her latest track, Minaj invoked Rihanna to claim that Megan tried to force sympathy for herself as a victim of violence. She also refuted that she …
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Universal Music Group set the music world aflame on Tuesday with its scathing open letter announcing that it would yank its music from TikTok after its licensing agreement with the platform expires on January 31. That letter is UMG’s equivalent of a nuclear bomb threat, the culmination of a year …
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Music rights company BMGis preparing to split entirely from Roger Waters following controversial comments he made onIsrael, Ukraine, and the United States,Variety reports. According to the publication, the Pink Floyd co-founder and German-based company signed a publishing agreement in 2016 and had plans to release a re-recorded version of the …
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