Two years ago, as a college freshman, country singer-songwriter Liddy Clark began writing papers on the relationship between country music and the NRA. In one essay, she pondered what it might take for country music to take a stance that strayed from the “pro-Second Amendment, ‘don’t take my guns away’ …
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Juice WRLD completes a daring rescue mission in the video game-inspired clip for his new song, “Hear Me Calling.” The Bradley and Pablo-directed video finds the rapper trying to contact his girlfriend, who’s been knocked out and locked up in the back of an armored van. As his calls go …
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Weeks after announcing the impending arrival of his much-anticipated sophomore album, Khalidmade his Saturday Night Live debut as the musical guest on the Idris Elba-hosted episode. The R&B singer opened his set with a groovy performance of his Disclosure-assisted first single from his forthcoming Free Spirit. The El Paso, Texas …
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Last month, Ann and Nancy Wilson announced that Heart were going on a reunion tour three years after their bitter split. And last night they finally appeared together in public at the Love Rock benefit show at New York’s Beacon Theater, sharing the bill with Robert Plant, Sheryl Crow and …
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Rita Ora displays different versions of herself in her new video for “Only Want You.” The clip is for the recently remixed version of the song, which features 6lack. The original tune appears on her sophomore LP, 2018’s Phoenix. The Hannah Lux Davis-directed visual opens on Ora expressing frustration to …
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When Guy Clark recorded his 1988 album Old Friends, he enlisted a bevy of musician buds to fulfill the title, from Rosanne Cash and Vince Gill to Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. Those last two appear on Steve Earle‘s new version of the LP’s title track, the latest song released …
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On her Grammy-winning album Golden Hour, Kacey Musgraves combined traditional acoustic instruments and a synthetic vocoder effect in “Oh, What a World,” creating a standout track that inspired the name of her 2019 headlining tour. At the third of four sold-out Oh, What a World: Tour dates at Nashville’s Ryman …
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2 Chainz performed a dramatic version of “Forgiven” on Thursday’s Tonight Show, recruiting a string section, children’s choir and the operatic voice of R&B singer Marsha Ambrosius. Throughout the song, the rapper lamented an adolescence in which his “dreams [turned] to nightmares.” “I stayed in the Creek, junkies used to …
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Asante McGee was eating lunch with her son last Friday afternoon when the text messages and articles began flooding in: R. Kelly Charged With 10 Counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse. McGee had met Kelly in 2013 and says the singer invited her backstage weeks later after a show in …
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For most of their existence, King Crimson have been one of rock’s least nostalgic bands. Through frequent lineup changes and a staunch commitment to starting from scratch with each new phase, bandleader Robert Fripp has preserved the sense of risk and experimentation that marked their landmark 1969 debut In the …
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