The third and final day of Pharrell’s Something in the Water festival at the Virginia Beach waterfront was canceled due to severe weather. The Sunday lineup had boasted Grace Jones, Clipse, Lil Uzi Vert, Wu-Tang Clan, 100 Gecs, Nile Rodgers & Chic, and more artists. “We did not make this …
Read More »Taylor Swift Has Taken Over… Formula 1?
Like all fun, dumb, egregiously unverified celebrity rumors these days, it came from Deux Moi: Taylor Swift, fresh off her breakup with Joe Alwyn, was allegedly racing back to the dating world with… Formula 1 driver and two-time world champion Fernando Alonso. That was back in mid-April, and there’s been …
Read More »You Are Grimes Now: Inside Music's Weird AI Future
When the anonymous songwriter/producer Ghostwriter recently dropped “Heart on My Sleeve,” a song built around the AI-cloned voices of Drake and The Weeknd, Universal Music Group moved instantly to remove it from streaming services. But one artist has reacted very differently to the emerging technology. Grimes, whose last album was …
Read More »Ed Sheeran Plays Van Morrison Song as Proof He Didn't Steal From Marvin Gaye in Copyright Trial
Ed Sheeran spent another day in court attempting to convince non-musicians that “Thinking Out Loud” didn’t rip off Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On.” On Monday, the singer whipped out his guitar once again, this time running through four acoustic song mashups between his song and ones from Nina Simone, …
Read More »Pride Live Recruits Christina Aguilera to Headline 2023 Stonewall Day Celebration
Pride Live will take its annual Stonewall Day celebration to new heights in 2023. This year’s benefit concert will make the move from outside of the historic Stonewall Inn in New York’s West Village to the Public Square & Gardens at Hudson Yards on the West Side. A bigger stage …
Read More »Stagecoach 2023: Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, and Nostalgia Dominate Country's California Fest
This year’s Stagecoach Festival was a love letter to country music’s past and a nod to its wide-open future. While the festival — the genre’s largest, most rollicking reunion that takes place in California’s low desert the week after Coachella — was sparse on guest appearances (no Axl Rose, this …
Read More »Jon Pardi Invited to Join Grand Ole Opry by Guy Fieri, Alan Jackson at Stagecoach
Jon Pardi received a surprise during his Stagecoach set Friday as, while onstage, he was invited to become an official member of the Grand Ole Opry, by way of Flavortown. Guy Fieri, Mr. Triple D himself, was on hand at the Indio, California festival and took to the stage to …
Read More »Willie Nelson's 90th Birthday Concert: Weed, Well Wishes and Tons of Songs
On an overcast night inside the Hollywood Bowl on April 29, the crowd had barely found their seats when Billy Strings and the band launched into “Whiskey River” at 7 p.m. sharp. After all, this was Willie Nelson‘s 90th birthday bash — and no one wanted to waste time. The …
Read More »See Bruce Springsteen Return to New Jersey Bedroom Where 'Nebraska' Was Born
Bruce Springsteen returned to the Colts Neck, New Jersey bedroom where he recorded much of his “masterpiece” Nebraska for a new interview with CBS Sunday Morning that commemorated his 1982 classic. “If I had to pick one album out and say ‘This is going to represent you 50 years from …
Read More »Juan Luis Guerra's Timeless Classics Come to Madison Square Garden
Fans flooded into Madison Square Garden for a rare opportunity to see Juan Luis Guerra and his 4.40 band play at one of the most prestigious venues in the U.S. this week. MSG was the fourth of twelve stops on Guerra’s Entre Mar y Palmeras Tour, named for the Dominican …
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