Somewhere, someone has woken up in a cold sweat and faced the realization that they might not have actually escaped the wrath of Nicki Minaj. In the early hours of the morning, the rapper took to social media for an impromptu meeting of the Barbs as they gear up for …
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Two years after leaving the top-selling Latin boy band CNCO, Joel Deleōn wants the world to hear the music that captures who he really is. After breaking away from a management team that he felt limited his musical output, the Mexican-American star is making his debut with the aptly titled …
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The ultimate year of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift is being capped off with one last epic crossover event. On Thursday, the music titans both appeared at the London premiere of Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, the documentary concert film capturing the creation and execution of Beyoncé’s acclaimed 2023 world tour. …
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These cats need a playdate! On Thursday, Mariska Hargitay shared a photo of her new pet cat on social media — and revealed that she named it Karma after a Taylor Swift lyric. It’s a full-circle moment for the kitties (and celebrities), since Swift named one of her own feline …
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Dinah Jane was in bumper-to-bumper traffic from L.A. to her native Orange County when she put on Under the Tree, a Christmas EP recorded by her Fifth Harmony bandmate Ally Brooke. “I was going, ‘Oh my gosh, this is actually so good,’” Dinah remembers. “I loved every song.” The production …
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A Nashville judge ruled Thursday that John Oates must remain in a holding pattern and take no “further action” to sell his half of his business partnership with Daryl Hall against Hall’s wishes. Oates must wait for the arbitrator selected in the famed duo’s previously filed arbitration to resolve the …
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The surge of sexual-abuse lawsuits that hit some of the music industry’s most powerful figures last week isn’t over yet, several lawyers tell Rolling Stone. Last week, as the window for New York’s Adult Survivors Act (ASA) was nearing a close, it brought forward one of the widest sets of …
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The holiday season is upon us again, which can only mean one thing: an onslaught of Spotify Wrapped posts on social media. But not everyone is a proponent of the streaming service, which is notoriously bad at paying musicians. This year, many popular artists recorded videos for their top fans, …
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Shane MacGowan, the sandpapery-voiced former Pogues frontman who served as the bridge between traditional Irish folk music and punk rock, died on Thursday at the age of 65. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Clarke, confirmed the musician’s death in a statement. The BBC wrote that MacGowan “died peacefully at 3.30am this morning …
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Nobody in the history of music ever sounded quite as decadently downtrodden (or whiskey-drowned, -sodden) as Shane MacGowan on “Fairytale of New York,” the soppy Christmas carol the Pogues‘ first released as a single in 1987. But as the luck of the Irish would have it, Kirsty MacColl was fortuitously …
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