In mid-March, Jill Sobule arrived at her friend Michelle Lewis’ home in L.A. to write songs with Lewis and her co-writing partner, former Letters to Cleo frontperson Kay Hanley. Calling themselves Sugar Tits, the three had collaborated periodically over the years. As Lewis and Hanley learned right away, Sobule had …
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In this week’s real news that sounds like a Mad Libs game: Harry Styles was apparently spotted in the crowd of people outside of Saint Peter’s Basilica on Thursday, May 8, waiting to see white smoke emerge from the roof of the Sistine Chapel to signal the selection of Pope …
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Eric Church gave the live debut of his new single “Hands of Time” at the 2025 ACM Awards, delivering a performance that included a pair of horn players, five back-up vocalists, and his own band. Church kept it cool in his signature sunglasses on the ACM stage. He performed in …
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Metallica played their first concert at Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium on Wednesday, where the crowd’s rapturous reaction to “Enter Sandman” — which has doubled as the Hokies football team’s intro music for the past half century — triggered the Richter scale. The Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory measured the sold-out crowd’s …
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Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Miley Cyrus shows off her powerhouse vocals on a twinkling ballad, André 3000 ditches his flute for the piano, and Tyla finds a slice of paradise just in …
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The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards kicked off tonight in Texas with a massive multi-generational medley, but one of the advertised acts was noticeably missing: Sugarland. During the performance, a range of previous ACM winners took the stage to perform their signature hits, with host Reba McEntire, Wynonna Judd, …
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The Weeknd and Playboi Carti hand the opening verse of their collaboration “Timeless” over to Doechii on a new remix of the record. The rapper kicks off the latest version of the Hurry Up Tomorrow single with rockstar stamina and a glimpse into how she spends her 24 hours in …
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“Could life be heaven on earth?/After the hell we been through?” Kali Uchis asks on the opening track of her fifth album, Sincerely, posing a question that also serves as the record’s thesis statement. “Heaven Is a Home,” with a cinematic string overture reminiscent of the same Old Hollywood feel …
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Chris Stapleton’s “It Takes a Woman,” off last year’s ACM Album of the Year winner Higher, is a solemn, honky-tonk-on-Prozac song of devotion that digs deep into male vulnerability. While it’s never been released as a single, its momentum has only built since Higher dropped more than a year and …
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Judas Priest found out too late that Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath would be playing a star-studded farewell concert this summer to join in on the festivities, frontman Rob Halford recently told Metal Hammer. A talent agent in Germany recruited the band to perform at the 60th anniversary concert for …
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