For the previous three years, Jason Aldean has taken home the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year honor at the annual ACM Awards, owing to his massive tours and ability to generate record sales. This year, he’ll take home an even more rare prize: the ACM Dick Clark …
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Randy Bachman has had a surprising career, one of the rare acts to score two Number One singles with two different bands: “American Woman” with the Guess Who and “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” with Bachman-Turner Overdrive. A new documentary, Bachman, written and directed by John Barnard (The Sheepdogs Have …
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The Strokes, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jenny Lewis, Tash Sultana, Incubus and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats will lead the 2019 Ohana Festival. The fourth annual fest will run from Friday, September 27th through Sunday, the 29th at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, …
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WASHINGTON – The family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose unsolved murder in 2016 spawned a wave of conspiracy theories, has notched another legal victory against the proponents of baseless theories about Rich. On Monday, pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi retracted a nearly year-old column published on …
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The best song on the 2 Chainz’s Rap or Go to the League isn’t the album’s flashiest. “Money In The Way” doesn’t have any features or super producers, which the album has in spades. LeBron James, the project’s A&R, doesn’t extend his media beef with the Lakers’ young core on …
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Solange released When I Get Home, her fourth full-length album, on Thursday night. The 19-track collection is her first since 2016’s A Seat at the Table, and it includes contributions from Metro Boomin, Pharrell, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler, the Creator, Playboi Carti and more. Solange hinted at the release ofWhen I …
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The R&B singer Guordan Banks works with the precision of a surgeon on his new single “Can’t Keep Runnin:’” He dissects the Gap Band’s great ballad “Yearning for Your Love,” locates the sterling melodies in the track’s core, and transplants them into a mid-tempo groove. It’s a small change, but …
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Nicki Minaj has formally denied committing copyright infringement in response to Tracy Chapman’s October 2018 lawsuit. Chapman claims that Minaj’s unreleased Nas collaboration “Sorry,” which interpolates the songwriter’s 1988 cut “Baby Can I Hold You,” uses her material without permission. As The Blast and Pitchfork report, Minaj filed a formal …
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It’s natural for aspiring musicians to learn through imitation. But in smaller countries, the first impulse of artists — at least those with commercial inclinations and YouTube access — may be to imitate hits from abroad, potentially impeding the growth of a rich local scene with its own sound and …
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John Oliver lambasted psychic “mediums” on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, exploring the techniques they utilize to prey on people’s grief—and the shameful role pop culture plays in promoting their gambit as credible. Early in the segment, the comedian cited an October 2018 poll from the Pew Research Center that found …
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