Roberta Flack, the veteran Grammy-winning soul and R&B vocalist who recorded massive hits with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” died Monday at age 88. Elaine Schock, Flack’s representative, confirmed the singer’s death from cardiac arrest. “Roberta broke boundaries and records. …
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For the morbidly curious and/or easily fooled music fan with anywhere from $1,400 to $1.1 million to spare, tickets for Fyre Festival II are on sale now. Billy McFarland, the convicted fraudster behind the infamous first Fyre Festival, finally revealed the details for his grand second attempt, which will apparently …
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Grupo Frontera are (again) speaking out against viral rumors that the Mexican American band supports Donald Trump. On Saturday, Grupo Frontera posted a video dispel some of the rumors about their political allegiance after a clip of them evading questions about the border crisis went viral this week. “We want …
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The always acerbic John Lydon slammed “dull” Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and the “Johnny Rotten“-less Sex Pistols reunion tour in a new interview. Speaking to NME, the singer was asked about a wide range of topics, including contemporary punk acts (“Not much point”), a Daft Punk collaboration that didn’t happen, …
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Bill Fay, the cult British singer-songwriter whose music was later championed by artists like Jeff Tweedy and Nick Cave, leading to a late-career resurgence, has died at the age of 81. Dead Oceans — the record label that released Fay’s three most albums, which arrived decades after inactivity — confirmed …
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Drake is back on top of the charts. $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, the rapper’s collaborative album with fellow Canadian PartyNext Door, has debuted atop Billboard’s 200 albums chart, the publication confirmed on Sunday, marking Drake’s 14th Number One album. The record opened with 287.04 million first-week streams, along with …
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MJ Lenderman reveals in a new interview that he will no longer tour with Wednesday — the Asheville indie rock band where he’s served as lead guitarist since 2018 — but he will continue to take part in the group’s studio output. In the GQ profile, Lenderman spilled that he …
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A singer-songwriter has sued Chlöe Bailey over claims that the R&B singer “exploited” him by failing to properly compensate and credit him for work he did on her most recent album, Trouble in Paradise. Melvin Moore, professionally known as 4Rest, claims that three of Bailey’s songs —“Favorite,” “Might as Well” …
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Producer/songwriter Andrew Watt went from the pop world to finding himself in the studio with his rock heroes, from the Rolling Stones to Pearl Jam — and now he’s back at the center of pop as executive producer of Lady Gaga‘s upcoming album Mayhem. His career is reaching new heights …
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Rihanna says she’s “feeling really optimistic” about her long-awaited album in a new interview, and that she “finally cracked it” amid the nine-year wait for the follow-up to Anti. The singer graces the cover of the new issue of Harpers Bazaar, and sat down for an interview where she vaguely …
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