Melanie, the chart-topping folk singer of “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” who performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969, died on Tuesday. She was 76. Billy James, the singer’s rep, confirmed her death to Rolling Stone, but did not provide a cause of death. “We …
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Seventeen showcased a new single, “The Meaning of Meeting,” during a concert Macao’s Olympic Sports Center Stadium earlier this week. The K-Pop group shared a video of the song featuring footage from the two-night run. The song, a stand-alone digital single released primarily in China, sees the musicians singing in …
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Donald Trump frequently enrages musicians by using their songs without permission during his political rallies. Most recently, he has upset Johnny Marr after footage of the former president playing the Smiths‘ 1982 single “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” at a Trump rally in South Dakota last …
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In a maroon-and-gold recording studio crowded with punk legends, Laura Jane Grace prepares to roar. There’s Bikini Kill bassist Kathi Wilcox with her swooping, arctic bangs; Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, sharing a mic with Dustin Reid, executive director of the nonprofit label Red Hot; Patti Smith Group drummer Jay …
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André 3000 brought his latest studio album, New Blue Sun, to the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The performance was nearly as long as the song itself as the musician performed “That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That …
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Surveillance video from the night of Chris Young’s arrest at a Nashville bar appears to contradict a Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission agent’s claims that the country star assaulted the officer during the incident Monday night. In a pair of surveillance videos posted Tuesday to Facebook by Nashville’s Newschannel 5 reporter …
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The Buffalo Bills stirred up some game day drama when the Kansas City Chiefs played an away game in their home base at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, NY on Sunday. “Understandably. It’s a football game. The Bills, coming into their house, they want to make it rowdy,” Chiefs tight …
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U.K. electronic artist Bullion enlists Carly Rae Jepsen for the new track “Rare,” the first single off his upcoming album Affection. The producer, born Nathan Jenkins, and Jepsen previously collaborated on a pair of tracks (“Bends” and “Far Away”) that appeared on the singer’s 2022 LP The Loneliest Time; “Rare” …
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Brent Smith was sitting in a slow-moving line of ATVs and golf carts at the Blue Ridge Rock Festival in September when he saw them start to assemble. Thousands of fans — a growing sea of humanity — were slowly recognizing the lead singer of Shinedown as he, members of …
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Rapper YFN Lucci pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a single count of violating the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. The charge is connected to the late 2020 shooting of 28-year-old James Adams in Atlanta. The musician, born Rayshawn Bennett, was arrested in January 2021 and charged with murder for …
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