On what would have been his 50th birthday, The Notorious B.I.G. will be crowned with a title his fans have always known he’s held: King of New York. In honor of the legendary rapper, born Christopher Wallace, the Empire State Building will light up in red and white, with an …
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As he gazed upon the thousands gathered for the grand opening of the Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama, last Friday, singer-songwriter John Paul White articulated the moment with his song “The Good Old Days.” “There’s something going down in this simple place I grew up in,” sang White, who was …
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K-pop girl group Twice celebrated a major milestone this weekend, playing two gigs at Los Angeles’ spacious Banc of California Stadium — their biggest shows ever in the U.S., and the perfect way of wrapping up thegroup’s 4th World Tour III, which they kicked off in Seoul last December. A …
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The once-triumphant world of Atlanta hip-hop is in a state of emergency. Just days after a far-reaching, 56-count indictment named Young Thug, Gunna, and more than two dozen other artists from YSL’s roster as alleged conspirators in a well-organized criminal organization, the label’s up-and-coming signee Lil Keed passed away on …
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When Ezra Miller hit up music producer Oliver Ignatius to help them work on a new musical project in February, Ignatius wasn’t immediately enticed. After all, he had a bunch of sessions booked for the next few months at his Holy Fang Studios in New York.But he knew Miller since …
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Gorillaz have announced a North American tour — their first since 2018 — which will kick off this fall. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Damon Albarn and Company’s 22-date trek launches in Vancouver at Rogers Arena and culminates at FTXArena in Miami on Oct. 23. …
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Ricky Gardiner, the guitarist who played stinging, obtuse leads throughout Davie Bowie’s iconicLowand Iggy Pop‘s rowdyLust for Life, has died at age 73. Tony Visconti, who co-producedLow, reported the newson Facebook, saying that Gardiner’s wife, Virginia, had notified him of the guitarist’s death. Gardiner had been battling Parkinson’s at the …
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Kehlani is hitting the road for an extensive, 28-city tour for the singer’s recently released third studio album, Blue Water Road. Kehlani will perform the tour’s opening show on July 30 at Raleigh, North Carolina’s Red Hat Amphitheater before wrapping in the fall with a final show at Honolulu, Hawaii’s …
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The top drug dealer convicted in the fatal fentanyl overdose of rapper Mac Miller was sentenced to 17 and a half years in federal prison Monday. The judge rejected his plea deal as too lenient after he continued to sell counterfeit oxycodone pills even after the rapper’s untimely demise in …
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Shawn Mendes is pushing his Canadian roots to the side in a new Tommy Hilfiger campaign that features the singer-songwriter covering Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 single “Dancing in the Dark.” Directed by Craig McDean and Theo Stanley, Mendes delivers his rendition of the dance-rock track from an Austin, Texas warehouse. The …
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