In May 1966, Bob Dylan famously sang “Like a Rolling Stone” at the Royal Albert Hall. Nearly 60 years later, Courtney Love performed the classic right next door. On Tuesday, Love was at London’s Royal Geographical Society in conversation with actor-writer Todd Almond, celebrating the release of his new oral …
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With the loss of multi-talented instrumentalist Roy Ayers, who died on Wednesday at the age of 84, the hip-hop world is honoring one of its greatest inspirations and sample sources. Hip-hop production stalwarts such as J. Dilla, Dr. Dre, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Madlib, and others have sampled from …
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Deadmau5 is the latest artist to land a mega catalog deal as Create Music Group has acquired the EDM star’s massive musical library — which includes his label mau5trap — for a reported $55 million. According to Billboard, the deal includes both the publishing and master recordings of the artist’s …
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Offset announced that he will be performing in Russia next month. His concert will oppose an ongoing boycott of Russia by his label Universal Music Group, which suspended operations in the country following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Offset’s arena show in Moscow was on his Instagram story, where …
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With new rule changes on the track, six drivers making their full season debuts, and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton making his Ferrari debut, the Formula 1 season is coming in hot. In honor of the high-speed frenzy scheduled to kick off with the Australian Grand Prix on March 14, …
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When Ingrid Andress sang the national anthem before a hockey game in Colorado last Friday, she was doing it to close a chapter of her career filled with shame, regret, and embarrassment. Seven months earlier in Texas, the country singer-songwriter spectacularly botched “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the MLB’s televised Home …
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Swedish papal metal act Ghost will return with a new album,Skeletá, this April, with a newly anointed pope as frontman. Ahead of the April 25 release of Skeletá, Ghost’s first album since 2022’s Impera, the band have shared the video for the demonic first single “Satanized,” which also gives fans …
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The World Cup, heading to North America in 2026, will feature a halftime show for the first time, and Coldplay will help with the final artists decision. Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Phil Harvey, the band’s manager, were both pulled to select a “list of artists” for the mid-game performance, Gianni …
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Stranger Things star Joe Keery makes his hilariously melodramatic debut as indie rock great and leader of the “slacktivism” movement, Stephen Malkmus, in the new trailer for Alex Ross Perry’s Pavement movie, Range Life: A Pavement Story. The film is kind of a mix of, well, everything — rock doc, …
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After cutting ties with Kanye West following the rapper’s abhorrent antisemitic comments in October 2022, Adidas has finally offloaded the last of its Yeezy stock. “There is not one Yeezy shoe left,” said Adidas chief financial officer Harm Ohlmeyer, following the company’s earnings report on Wednesday. “It has all been …
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