D’Angelo will face off against unnamed “friends” in an upcoming Verzuz episode. The battle, which takes place live at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater, will stream via Instagram Live on February 27th. Launched last year by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, the popular series features veteran songwriters, producers and artists who musically …
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It was Valentine’s Day of 2018 in Washington, D.C., and Mary Wilson was on a mission. Then 74 years old, the Supremes singer, outfitted in a glamorous red dress and very high heels, needed to convince the nation’s representatives and senators to vote yes on the CLASSICS Act, a proposed …
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FKA Twigs and Getty Images are working to empower black storytellers by making more images from the platform’s archives available to creatives. Getty will also be pursuing and announcing various projects that will amplify and support black creatives in the coming months. Getty Images’ Hulton Archive is the world’s …
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Back in 2013 — fresh from playing bass on what would turn out to be one of Van Halen‘s final tours — Wolfgang Van Halen turned his attention to his own music, demoing a song he called “Mammoth,” a nod to one of the early names of his father’s band. …
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A new documentary about Tina Turner, Tina, will premiere on HBO on March 27th at 8 p.m. ET. Directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, Tina is described in a release as “a revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, charting her improbable …
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Glenn Danzig‘s infatuation with B-grade horror movies defined his early work with the punk group Misfits, and now he’s making his own bloody splatsploitation flicks. His latest, Death Rider in the House of Vampires, sets a nosferatu story in the Old West, where a befanged Danny Trejo tussles with a …
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Miley Cyrus tore through a set of her hits and covers and welcomed guests Billy Idol and Joan Jett while headlining the Super Bowl LV pregame on Sunday. Standing at Tampa Bay’s Raymond James Stadium, Cyrus — in cheerleader gear — kicked off the “TikTok Tailgate” with a take on …
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Despite the country music industry’s swift withdrawal of support for Morgan Wallen after a video of him surfaced Tuesday night using a racial slur — a breakneck fall from grace that has included much of the radio industry pulling his songs from airwaves, his contract with Big Loud Records being …
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Alice Cooper celebrated his 73rd birthday on February 4th with the new single “Social Debris,” from his upcoming album Detroit Stories, out February 26th. The video features an aerial view of the dilapidated buildings of Detroit with Cooper’s face strewn across them. “Their eyes are everywhere/I see them spying there,” …
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It’s been nearly a year since Covid-19 essentially shut down concert tours — the financial backbone of most working musicians – in the United States and beyond. As a result, thousands of musicians and touring professionals, many of whom work as nonunion independent contractors, are still out of work and …
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