Joni Mitchell will release The Reprise Albums
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This summer, Joni Mitchell will release The Reprise Albums (1968-1971), the second installment of her archive series. It contains reissues of her first four albums to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Blue — her final release on Reprise before she signed to Asylum Records.
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R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week
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In preparation for her upcoming album, ALPHA, Charlotte Day Wilson released her second single of the spring, "Keep Moving." Coupled with an equally potent visual, the single centers love from a distance with parallels to life at large, Wilson singing, "Sometimes, I need something that's so far from me/ But if it's not meant to be/ I gotta keep moving." The visual artfully spotlights underrepresented love stories, while Wilson cruises under pink and blue moonlit skies.
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"Borracho Bailando Champeta"
Seconds into the video for “Borracho Bailando Champeta,” the singer Kevin Florez walks by a neon-bright pico, the booming sound systems known for roaring out Afro-Colombian melodies at dance parties in predominantly Black communities across Colombia’s Caribbean coasts. These iridescent selectors have been called the “radio stations of champeta,” a genre that’s deeply rooted in African music traditions and originated in the Palenque region around the 1960s and 1970s — and the sound that Florez and the producer Captain Planet proudly highlight on “Borracho Bailando Champeta.
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Lalisa in "The Tonight Show" for Solo TV Debut
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Wearing a sparkly top and surrounded by dancers in masks, BLACKPINK member Lisa performed the fresh title track from her just-released, debut solo project for a segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, marking the song's first televised performance.
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Top Winner at 2021 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards
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Appalachian Road Show, Dale Ann Bradley and Sierra Hull were also two-time winners. Appalachian Road Show took instrumental group of the year and new artist of the year. Bradley took female vocalist of the year for the sixth time and tied for gospel recording of the year. Sierra Hull took mandolin player of the year and was among the featured artists on the winner for collaborative recording of the year: Bobby Osborne's “White Line Fever."
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Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian did exactly the thing you’d expect
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Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian did exactly the thing you’d expect them to do ahead of Halloween, dress up as famously dysfunctional couple Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.
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Alicia Keys & Kehlani Talk Love Songs
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When Kehlani was growing up in Oakland in the 2000s, Alicia Keys was part of the soundtrack to her life. Kehlani would go on to a career of her own, establishing herself as one of the most innovative singers of her generation, someone who straddles the worlds of R&B, pop, and hip-hop. But she never lost her love for Keys; she even name-checked her in a song called “Can I” off of 2020’s It Was Good Until It Wasn’t. So, you can imagine what it might have felt like for Kehlani to sit across from Alicia one day this summer and hear how much Alicia loved her music.
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