Renaissance and Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers have earned Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar some big nominations in the NAACP Image Awards’ music categories this year. On Thursday, the organization announced the nominees for this year’s awards show, and Bey and K-Dot lead with five nods each. Following closely behind …
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Dr. Dre is nearing a deal to sell a collection of music assets to Universal Music Group and Shamrock Holdings, Variety and Billboard report, marking yet another major music sale and one of the highest profile hip-hop music asset deals to date since the start of the catalog acquisition boom. …
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Over three years after Vagabon released her self-titled second album, the rising singer-songwriter returns with “Carpenter,” co-produced by Rostam. “‘Carpenter’ is about that humbling feeling when you desperately want to be knowledgeable, you want to be advanced, you want to be mature, forward thinking, and evolved,” the singer, born Laetitia …
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One of the most infamous and tragic copyright struggles in the history of the music industry has finally been resolved as John Fogerty has gained the publishing rights to his Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, purchasing a majority stake in the catalog from Concord. “As of this January, I own my …
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Live Nation has failed in its first attempt to sink a series of lawsuits over the backstage stabbing death of rapperDrakeo the Rulerat theOnce Upon A Time in L.A.music festival in downtown Los Angeles. A Los Angeles judge sided with Drakeo’s brother in a key ruling Wednesday, saying Devante Caldwell …
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The Kid Laroi is teasing a new era of music. On Thursday, Laroi announced his album “The First Time,” alongside a 30-second trailer for the song, and revealed its first single is out next week. “You never forget the first time,” Laroi says as clips of him on film flash …
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Lisa Marie Presley has been hospitalized after experiencing a medical emergency. Presley was transferred to a local hospital Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, the L.A. County Fire Dept. confirmed to Rolling Stone. She reportedly had CPR performed on her by paramedics when they arrived on …
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The Argentinean producerBizarrap has a way of disarming artists during his wildly popular BZRP Music Sessions on YouTube. The viral series has featured names like Residente, Paulo Londra, and Villano Antillano — all people who took the mic and let everything out over Bizarrap’s futuristic beats. Still, no one was …
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Welcome to this Argentinian duo’s dollhouse. On Thursday, Tini and La Joaqui released their perreo-filled collaboration with Steve Aoki, “Muñecas,” along with the song’s sexy music video. The video follows the two artists singing from inside different rooms of what seems to be the pair’s dollhouse as they sing about …
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It’s the day before New Year’s Eve in Nashville, and Molly Tuttle is in a dressing room at the Ryman Auditorium, getting ready to open Old Crow Medicine Show’s annual year-end concerts later that night. Tuttle has played the Ryman stage in the past, but this time she does so …
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