The new Kurt Vile album begins, like many great yarns, in medias res. The poet-king of Philadelphia is at an airport somewhere in North America, pondering the prospects of his own mortality and a cold beer, when an epiphany hits him: “Listenin’ to ‘Heart of Gold’/Gonna open up for Neil …
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Kikagaku Moyo literally speak their own language. The group’s lyrics consist entirely of invented syllables — phonetic sounds that complement their intricate looping riffs. But singing in tongues hasn’t stopped this Japanese quintet from connecting with audiences around the world. Since getting together in 2012, the band has gone from …
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Questlove’s Summer of Soul, the Oscar-winning documentary about the long-forgotten Harlem Cultural Festival, has inspired organizers to plan a new fest at the site of that 1969 event. Scheduled for the summer of 2023, the Harlem Festival of Culture will center around a multi-day event at the now-Marcus Garvey Park; …
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Halftime, a documentary about both Jennifer Lopez’s Super Bowl LIV halftime show and the midpoint of her storied career, will premiere opening night at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. The film, which offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the singer’s life as she approaches the age of 53, will debut June 8 …
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Natanael Cano was barely 18 when he became one of the most prominent figures in the corridos tumbados movement. His style of prickly, guitar-driven Mexican balladry mixed elements of rap and trap, and when Cano shot out of the gate in 2019, he was known as a wunderkind who inspired …
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Lawyers for Live Nation raised concerns about an upcoming documentary about last year’s deadly Astroworld tragedy in a new filing last week. According to a letter dated April 8 obtained by Rolling Stone, Live Nation said it was concerned that Concert Crush: The Travis Scott Festival Tragedy could “taint” the …
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Nicki Minaj definitely has a problem with the lawyer representing her husband’s rape accuser in a harassment lawsuit filed last year, calling the attorney’s actions “disgraceful” and “beyond shocking” in a new motion for sanctions. Minaj and her lawyer say opposing attorney Tyrone Blackburn should be “severely punished” — through …
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The CMT Music Awards — country’s version of MTV’s VMAs, to the uninitiated — celebrated the best country videos of the year during a three-hour show on Monday night. Held at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium and airing live for the first time on CBS, the CMT Awards handed out trophies in …
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A federal judge said Monday that Post Malone’s last-ditch effort to have the authorship battle over his chart-topping megahit “Circles” dismissed ahead of a trial next month “doesn’t work for me.” Though U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright, II, declined to rule from the bench on Malone’s dismissal motion after …
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Kelsea Ballerini gave the live TV debut of her new song “Heartfirst” at Monday night’s CMT Music Awards. But Ballerini wasn’t onstage in Nashville — rather, she sang the upbeat slice of country-pop at home after being sidelined by a case of Covid-19. Dressed in a green dress and strumming …
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