The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame welcomed Sheryl Crow with a fellow inductee and one of her biggest young fans as Stevie Nicks and Olivia Rodrigo both performed the singer’s hits at the 2023 induction ceremony. The evening kicked off with Rodrigo assisting Crow on her 1996 hit “If …
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LL Cool J honored DJ Kool Herc as “one of the great founders of hip-hop” when the pioneering musical visionary received the Musical Influence Award at the 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. During his speech, the rapper recounted the legend of the party Kool Herc DJ’d …
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Kate Bush didn’t attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday, but some of her biggest admirers celebrated her induction and her decades-long career: OutKast’s Big Boi, one of Bush’s most vocal (and unlikeliest) fans delivered her induction speech while St. Vincent performed the British singer’s resurgent …
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Kate Bush is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a long overdue honor for the experimental and forward-thinking singer-songwriter. Because she’s rarely performed live over the course of her career (she has only toured once, in 1979), most of Bush’s fans have only been able to …
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has partnered with the Black Music Action Coalition to provide mentorship and financial support to emerging Black and female artists and music professionals. The BMAC Music Maker Guaranteed Income and Mentorship Program — like a similar program BMAC started with the Academy of …
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Olivia Rodrigo and Sheryl Crow will share the stage once again when they perform together at the 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Nov. 3. While the Rock Hall didn’t elaborate on who Rodrigo would be performing with — “one of her heroes,” they teased — …
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be streamed live on Disney+ from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on November 3, and an edited version will broadcast on January 1, 2024, on ABC. This follows several years where HBO was the home of the ceremony. The Hall of Fame …
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The Black Music Action Coalition called Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s exclusion of Black and female musicians from his upcoming book The Masters “an offensive and absurd erasure.” The organization — which was founded in the summer of 2020 amidst the uprising against police brutality and wider reckonings with systemic …
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Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner has been ousted from his position on the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. The news was announced on Saturday, following an interview with The New York Times, where he made widely criticized comments about Black and female musicians, …
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When Paul McCartney announced the Beatles were releasing one final song later this year, with vocals extracted from a John Lennon demo via a machine-learning tool, the press jumped on a narrative of an “AI Beatles song.” Confused fans feared they were about to hear an AI-generated Lennon. But the …
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