On November 11th, Charley Pride took the stage at the 2020 Country Music Association Awards to receive the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor the organization gives out to “an iconic artist who has attained the highest degree of recognition in Country Music.” Pride, of course, was a natural …
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Alice Cooper has released a cover of Outrageous Cherry’s 2005 song, “Our Love Will Change the World,” which will appear on his upcoming album, Detroit Stories, out February 26th, 2021 via earMUSIC. The track has a deceptively peppy step with bright, crunchy guitars and charming piano lines, while Cooper’s vocals …
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YouTube Originals has announced Hello 2021, a virtual New Year’s Eve event that will stream in five parts on Thursday, December 31st. The show will feature speeches, live performances, DJ sets, and more. “With the world ready to move past an extremely challenging year, YouTube will use its global reach …
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The White Stripes just released a greatest hits album, delighting fans with a tracklist crossword puzzleand videos for classics including “Let’s Shake Hands” and “Apple Blossom.”The band, which broke up in 2011, also unveiled a series of never-seen live performances from their archives, including a powerful “Ball and Biscuit” from …
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Last year, aspiring rapper YNG Martyr was barely holding on to a job as “a web designer that didn’t know how to design websites.” “I was in a nine to five that was God-awful,” he remembers. “I hated it.” Faced with the prospect of wasting away at work, most people …
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Justin Bieber will return to the stage for his first live show since 2017 with a special New Year’s Eve livestream concert. The livestream will launch December 31st at 10:15 p.m. ET/7:15 p.m. PT, while Bieber’s performance will begin at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT. Access to watch the concert …
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With multiple promising candidates for COVID-19 vaccines inching closer to becoming a reality, much of the world is looking forward to a near-ish future marked by safe indoor family gatherings, live music, and drunken karaoke nights. But public health researchers are still concerned that some Americans, in their unwillingness to …
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Billie Eilish performed a cover of the Beatles‘ “Something” in an exclusive live session on SiriusXM’s Alt Nation on Thursday. The stripped-down rendition featured Eilish singing alongside her brother Finneas on piano. The session also included performances of Eilish’s tracks “Therefore I Am,” “Everything I Wanted,” and “Ocean Eyes.” The …
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Before Championxiii released “BOO!” — a ticking, clapping, bottom-heavy record with the charmingly goofy refrain “bitch, I’m a ghost!” — in October, the 25-year-old rapper already knew it would be a hit. That’s because Championxiii, who grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts but now lives in Houston, tests all his demos …
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Elton John‘s eight-disc Jewel Box landed in stores last month and it’s packed with lesser-known tunes from his long career, including 60 that have never been heard anywhere. There’s a special focus on the pre-fame songs he wrote with Bernie Taupin in the late Sixties, but the set also spotlights …
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