Bono‘s “bout of embarrassment” with U2 isn’t related to the force-downloaded Songs of Innocence album that hit everyone’s iTunes accounts in 2014. His face flushes “scarlet” when he listens to his own voice on some of the band’s early songs — and when he hears his iconic group’s name. “I’ve …
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Fifty years ago this week, music fans were reintroduced to Paul Simon, the solo artist. They first met him in the late Fifties when he released a series of flop singles like “True or False” and “Anne Belle” under the pseudonyms True Taylor and Jerry Landis. He briefly dinged the …
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“It’s a new chapter in my life as a storyteller,” says Questlove, fresh from reinventing the concert movie with Summer of Soul. His directorial debut, which embedded much-needed Black-history lessons inside jaw-dropping, long-buried performances from Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, B.B. King, and many others, was one of 2021’s …
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Ralph Emery, a radio and TV personality whose steady voice and buttoned-up likeness were synonymous with country music, has died. According to a statement from his family, Emery died Saturday at a Nashville hospital. He was 88. Along with being a DJ at Nashville radio stations like WSIX and the …
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For the first Saturday Night Live musical performance of 2022, Jack Antonoff‘s Bleachers hit the stage for an energetic, jazz-tinged performance of “How Dare You Want More.” During the track, which is the second single from Bleachers’ 2021 album Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, Antonoff was joined by …
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Kanye West has released the new song “Eazy” featuring The Game. The rapper legally known as Ye has been in the studio working on the follow-up to Donda. On the new track, Ye throws shade at soon-to-be ex-wife Kim Kardashian and makes multiple allusions to their high-profile divorce. “‘Mr. Narcissist,’ …
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Robert Earl Keen says that after September 2022 he’ll no longer tour or give public performances. The beloved Texas singer-songwriter announced his retirement on Friday with a heartfelt if surprising note on his website. “I [have] been blessed with a lifetime of brilliant, talented, colorful, electric and magical folks throughout …
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Cardi B took the witness stand in a federal courtroom in Atlanta Thursday and told jurors she suffered extreme mental anguish over a gossip blogger’s allegedly false and defamatory statements claiming the singer had herpes, used cocaine and worked as a prostitute. The “WAP” rapper testified for several hours, detailing …
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Hailey Whitters gets the dubious honor of being named homecoming queen at Cow Pie High in the video for “Everything She Ain’t,” the Nashville songwriter’s first single from her upcoming album Raised. Due out March 18, the project is the follow-up to Whitters’ breakthrough 2020 album The Dream. Cow Pie …
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For Ian Noe, it all started with a title. Two years ago, not long after releasing his stunning debut Between the Country, the Kentucky singer-songwriter was stumbling around in search of a creative direction when a phrase came to him: River Fools & Mountain Saints. In an instant, he knew …
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