NBA YoungBoy’s fate was dropped in the hands of a federal jury in Los Angeles Thursday after lawyers on both sides said the case accusing the wildly popular rapper of being a felon in possession of a firearm was “simple.” Prosecutors argued YoungBoy, born Kentrell Gaulden, proved his own guilt …
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Death Cab for Cutie has released a new single, “Here to Forever,” along with a music video written and directed by filmmaker Lance Bangs. The clip depicts frontman Ben Gibbard being forced to deal with packaging the band’s vinyl himself after having a conversation with two inept pressing plant employees, …
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Prosecutors spent considerable time Wednesday going over the FNX-45 pistol and $700,000 worth of high-end jewelry found in rapper NBA YoungBoy‘s Mercedes Maybach during an arrest. The defense focused on what wasn’t found – fingerprints. FBI Forensic Examiner Icel Kuznetsova, an expert in the field of latent print examinations, testified …
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Santigold is back with another new song, “Nothing,” which will appear on her upcoming album, Spirituals, out Sept. 9. The track is an exploration of how it feels to be invisible, Santigold explained in a statement written during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. Writing the lyrics, she continued, allowed …
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Charley Crockett just released his latest album Jukebox Charley in April and he’s already made plans for another one. The Man From Waco, the Texas singer-songwriter’s second full-length of 2022, will be released in September and includes the lead single “I’m Just a Clown.” Funky and downcast at the same …
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Bea Kristi first caught the world’s attention releasing bedroom tunes that became viral hits, particularly her epochal 2019 blast of indie-rock hero worship “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus.” Her 2021 debut as Beabadoobee, Fake It Flowers, showed she could be and do many things, from a Hole-style angst merchant …
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Rage Against the Machine continued their reunion tour Tuesday evening at Chicago’s United Center, just one night after frontman Zack de la Rocha injured his leg at the same venue. He was seated throughout the entire night but still managed to put on a stellar show that included the group’s …
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All humans are comprised of contradictions, and multimedia artist Dirty Bird is self-aware of his. He’s a Twitter-famous internet personality who doesn’t want to be known for his online persona. He’s a jazz-laden dance music producer who wouldn’t describe his own music as jazz. He’s a capital-A Artist who’s frighteningly …
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Lizzo got a surprise visit from Coldplay’s Chris Martin, whom she was able to thank in person for inspiring her forthcoming Special track, literally titled “Coldplay,” during an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. The full interview airs today, July 13, at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. The …
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For the better part of the past decade, singer-songwriter Sarah Shook has made their name as the lead singer of the hardscrabble country-rock outfit Sarah Shook and the Disarmers. But after cutting their third full-length albumNightroamer just before the pandemic hit in 2020, Shook spent the remainder of 2020 making …
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