Following the death of Mac Miller Friday from a suspected overdose, the rapper’s music peers turned to social media to pay tribute to the artist who died at the age of 26. “Rest In Peace to the great soul Mac Miller,” J. Cole tweeted. “This is a message for anybody …
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It’s been more than a quarter century since the release of Wayne’s World, and Mike Myers is still not worthy. At shock rocker Alice Cooper‘s concert at New York City’s Beacon Theater Thursday night, the actor stepped onstage in a black T-shirt and a green trucker hat at the end …
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Rising Atlanta rapper, and Lil Yachty associate, Kodie Shane spars with her partner over a bowl of cereal in the video for her new song, “Sing to Her.” The Child-directed clip captures neon-lit scenes of domestic discord. Shane and her partner scrap at the breakfast table before the rapper watches …
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Doom-metal quartet Windhand pair a bass-heavy groove with frontwoman Dorthia Cottrell’s ethereal vocals on their new single, “Diablerie.” Halfway into the song, guitarist Garrett Morris kicks into a psychedelic, wah-wah solo that gives the tune an eerie vibe as Cottrell sings trippy lyrics about black windowpanes. The track, which owes …
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Clive Davis remembered Aretha Franklin as “the ultimate natural woman,” a “singer’s singer” and a “musician’s musician” at the Queen of Soul’s star-studded funeral in Detroit on Friday. Davis worked closely with Franklin for more than 30 years and had a hand in many of her late-career successes. “When I …
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Brian Bumbery, publicist for major artists like Metallica, Madonna, Chris Cornell and Green Day, will leave his own public relations firm, BB Gun Press in September to accept the position as Director at Apple Music Publicity, Variety reports. The company will continue under the helm of Luke Burland, who worked …
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Nicki Minaj‘s Queen andTravis Scott‘s Astroworldwere projected to be in a close race for Number One album, but it didn’t pan out that way. Scott’s albumbeat Minaj’s by 20,000 album-equivalent units, which, in chart-nerd parlance is not exactly “close.” And Minaj did not take kindly to the numbers. “I put …
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Stevie Wonder remembered his longtime friend Aretha Franklin in an interview with CBS This Morning Friday, a day after the legendary singer’s death at the age of 76. Wonder visited Franklin’s Detroit home Tuesday following reports that the Queen of Soul was “gravely ill.” “She wasn’t able to speak back, …
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An all-star tribute concert to ailing soul icon Aretha Franklin is being planned to take place in New York City this fall. Record exec Clive Davis, who signed Franklin to his Arista Records in 1980, is leading the charge on the show, which Billboard claims could be titled “Clive Davis …
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Cher has debuted “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight),” the first single off her forth ABBA cover albumDancing Queen.She teased her clubby version in a video trailer for the album on Twitter on Wednesday. Produced by her longtime collaborator Mark Taylor — who was behind her massive hit “Believe” …
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