A country music concert slated for this weekend’s NRA Convention in Houston just lost another performer. Larry Gatlin, a member of the country trio the Gatlin Brothers, has dropped out of the lineup. The 74-year-old vocalist and songwriter behind Gatlin Brothers hits like “All the Gold in California” and “Houston …
Read More »Tate McRae Bares Her Soul a Little Unevenly on 'I Used to Think I Could Fly'
Before Tate McRae was trying to take the pop world by storm, she was a former finalist on So You Think You Can Dance? who had a vlog series where she flaunted her singer-songwriter skills. In 2019, one of the videos she recorded — a piano ballad called “One Day” …
Read More »Alan White, Drummer for Yes and John Lennon, Dead at 72
Yes drummer Alan White, who joined the progressive rock band in 1972 and stayed with them for the next 50 years, has died at 72 after a brief illness. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is most famous for his work in Yes, but also performed with John …
Read More »Depeche Mode Keyboardist Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher Dead at 60
Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, the co-founder and keyboardist of beloved synth-pop and New Wave stalwarts Depeche Mode, died at the age of 60. Fletcher’s bandmates announced his death Thursday on social media; Rolling Stone has confirmed that the cause of death was natural causes. “We are shocked and filled with overwhelming …
Read More »Taylor Swift Is 'Filled With Rage and Grief' Over Uvalde School Shooting
Taylor Swift, like so many of us, is horrified by the massacre at a Texas elementary school. “Filled with rage and grief, and so broken by the murders in Uvalde,” she tweeted about the mass shooting that killed at least 19 children. Then she referred to two other mass shootings: …
Read More »Rosé on the Power of Vulnerability and Why Blackpink Is Family
R osé has juggled different personas her whole life. Born to Korean parents in New Zealand, Roseanne Chaeyoung Park grew up mostly in Australia, comparing her childhood there to Hannah Montana’s double life: She was the Korean Chaeyoung at church on Sundays, attending services with the other immigrants. During the …
Read More »Bob Dylan's New Recording of 'Blowin' In the Wind' Headed to Auction Before Song's 60th Anniversary
Bob Dylan’s new studio recording of his classic, “Blowin’ in the Wind,” made on a new recording format pioneered by T Bone Burnett, will be auctioned off at Christie’s in London on July 7. The one-of-a-kind recording has an estimated price of £600,000 to £1 million, or about $752,000 to …
Read More »The Harlem Music Festival From 'Summer of Soul' Gets Recognized by Congress
When a local promoter and New York City Parks department employee named Tony Lawrence first began the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1967, he hardly could have imagined that, 55 years later, his music festival would be recognized by the United States Senate. Yesterday, the Senate agreed by “unanimous consent” on …
Read More »Empress Of Drops New Breakup Anthem 'Dance for You'
Empress Of, the electro-pop project of singer Lorely Rodriguez, has shared the video for her new breakup song “Dance for You,” the first single off her upcoming Save Me EP. “I love the lyrics on this song,” Rodriguez said in a statement of the track, which she recorded in Minneapolis …
Read More »Listen to Brandy Give Jack Harlow a 'First Class' Murk After He Didn't Recognize Her Song
Don’t call her Brandy no more — call her your highness. Brandy didn’t come to play with her take on Jack Harlow‘s “First Class” after the white boy rapper couldn’t recognize the R&B queen’s standout “Angel in Disguise” earlier this month. After a fan account posted a video of Harlow …
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