If you thought the death of Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s sole surviving original member, last Sunday would bring the Southern rock band’s 52-year career to a close, you only had to be at the Plant City Strawberry Festival in Florida Sunday night. Lynyrd Skynyrd took the stage a week after …
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Take me down to the Taylor Swift City where the grass is green and the Swifties are pretty? Is this a thing?? Who knows, but on Monday, the city of Glendale, Arizona announced that it will temporarily change its name to “Swift City” for two days to celebrate the launch …
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Billy Gibbons linked up with Elvis Costello to play a handful of ZZ Top classics during a special charity gig in Nashville Sunday night, March 12. Gibbons and Costello played a slew of hits, including ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Jesus Just Left Chicago,” “Thunderbird,” and “La Grange.” Gibbons also …
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Lebanese singer Myriam Fares — who was featured on the 2022 World Cup anthem “Tukoh Taka” with Nicki Minaj and Maluma — has removed footage of herself in blackface from a 2018 video. In a statement to Rolling Stone, a member of Fares’ management team confirmed that they had “successfully …
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Latin music royal couple Rosalia and Rauw Alejandro are staying true to their word and releasing music together. On Monday, the pair announced that they’ll release a three-song bundle titled RR later this month. “R♾️Я,” the pair captioned the bundle’s cover art, along with its release date on March 24. …
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band continue to pile up postponements to their 2023 tour as the group’s third-straight show has been pushed “due to illness.” Soon after the tour kicked off in February, Covid quickly hit E Street as band members Steven Van Zandt and violinist/singer Soozie Tyrell …
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Saturday Night Live musical guests The 1975 took to a warmly lit stage and performed the bubbly single “I’m In Love With You” off of Being Funny in a Foreign Language, their fifth studio album which came out last fall. Later in the show, the group returned to play the …
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I t was one of those beautiful and unseasonably warm fall days in New York City, November 2019, when Pras Michel, founding member of the Fugees, documentary filmmaker, and man about town, was headed to a lunch date, a first date with a woman he hadn’t met before. Around noon, …
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The Who’s Roger Daltrey has dismissed the idea of the band recording another album, citing the tepid commercial response to their 2019 LP Who. When asked by NME whether he and Pete Townshend plan on recording another album, Daltrey said, “What’s the point?” “What’s the point of records? We released …
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South African rapper Costa Titch died this weekend after collapsing onstage during his performance at Johannesburg’s Ultra Music Festival. The rapper born Constantinos Tsobanoglou was 28. According to Cape Town Etc, Titch was performing at the Nasrec Expo Centre when he fell over onstage. Someone rushed out to help the …
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