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Swedish DJ Avicii
Swedish DJ Avicii released a striking, minimal music video for "You Be Love," his hit single featuring rock singer Billy Raffoul. The song is from his EP, AVĪCI, released in August.
The video, directed by TNT, conveys a love story told through the subtle poses and expressions of statues. The song's devotional message is relayed by the pale, stark figures. Two female figures reach appear to reach for one another while their faces cycle through an array of emotions from hope to anger to love.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club released new song
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club released new song, "Echo," the latest preview from the group's forthcoming new album, Wrong Creatures.
Unlike the album's opening single "Little Thing Gone Wrong," which leaned more toward BRMC's trademark ragged garage sound, "Echo" takes a more atmospheric, uncluttered approach. The song, as the title suggests, echoes the enthralling sound of Eighties rockers like Echo & The Bunnymen.
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Longtime Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds collaborator Nick Launay produced Wrong Creatures, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's first album since 2013's Specter at the Feast. The album was created in part while drummer Leigh Shapiro.
"I find myself writing about death a lot," frontman Peter Hayes previously said of Wrong Creatures in a statement. "I find myself having a discussion with death, which sounds dark. For me, it's dark humor."
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Neil Diamond Retires From Touring After Disease Diagnosis
Neil Diamond announced Monday that he would retire from touring after being recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
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Acting on his doctor's advice, Diamond immediately canceled the upcoming Australian and New Zealand legs of his 50th Anniversary tour, the singer revealed on his website.
"It is with great reluctance and disappointment that I announce my retirement from concert touring," Diamond said in a statement. “I have been so honored to bring my shows to the public for the past 50 years. My sincerest apologies to everyone who purchased tickets and were planning to come to the upcoming shows."
Although the Parkinson's diagnosis ended Diamond's 50-year career as a live act, the 77-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted singer hopes to continue making music.
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On the eve of his 85th birthday, legendary record producer Quincy Jones covered a lot of controversial ground in a wide-ranging interview with New York magazine.
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The frank interview touched on lighter fare, like astrology (he's a Pisces) and dating Ivanka Trump, to why race relations and feminism are imperative movements right now.
Jones gave many opinions about the music industry (namely, that it no longer exists), but is optimistic about artists like Bruno Mars, Chance the Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Sam Smith and Mark Ronson. The verbose 28-time Grammy winner had plenty of hot takes about the musical legends he's worked with over decades, from Michael Jackson to the Beatles to Cream.
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Watch Kanye West at Kid Cudi Concert
Kanye West made another rare onstage appearance Saturday when the rapper performed his "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1" during Kid Cudi's concert at an Adidas event in Los Angeles.
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West also introduced Cudi – who wasn't listed among the scheduled performers – at Adidas' 747 Warehouse St. event, a two-day all-star event tied to the NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles.
The two-minute cameo comes four months after West made his last onstage appearance, where the rapper again dropped by a Kid Cudi concert – this time at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom – to perform that Life of Pablo track.
That November 2017 visit marked West's return to the stage in nearly a year; prior to that, West last appeared onstage on November 19th, 2016, the site of the rapper's infamous Sacramento concert where – after arriving 90 minutes late and performing for 15 minutes – West went on a long rant that lashed out at Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
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4 Great Music Books to Read Right Now
3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise by Zack O'Malley Greenburg
In the past 20 years, hip-hop has produced enough wanna-be Warren Buffetts to fill the biggest strip club in Atlanta. But, according to Forbes editor Zack O'Malley Greenburg's new book, only a trio of artist-entrepreneurs have risen to a status that rivals the corporate titans: Jay-Z, Dr. Dre and Diddy. What sets them apart? "[They] built their fortunes by creating a 24/7 head-to-toe lifestyle," Greenburg writes, having branched out into movies, sports management, alcohol, fashion, TV, music streaming and beyond.
The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s by Greg Prato
In the late 1970s, there wasn't a name for the smooth, AM-friendly music made by the likes of Hall and Oates, Orleans, Kenny Loggins and the Doobie Brothers. But a series of viral videos retroactively dubbed it "yacht rock," as it appealed to a very white, upscale audience and an odd number of songs had nautical themes. Greg Prato's oral history tells of the rise, fall and semi-ironic resurgence of the genre, including new interviews with John Oates, Jim Messina and more. "It's amazing this style came to be," Fred Armisen writes in the foreword. "It must take an incredible amount of restraint to play that gently." A.G.
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh
In the summer of 1968, Van Morrison was a rock & roll refugee, an Irish blues poet on the run from his homeland after a bitter fling with pop stardom. Down and out in Boston, he wrote the songs that became one of rock's most beloved masterworks, Astral Weeks – and then blew town as suddenly as he'd arrived. In this fantastic chronicle, Ryan Walsh unearths the time and place behind the music. Morrison fell into a Boston underground scene full of outrageous characters – like Mel Lyman, the folkie harmonica player turned cult leader with a tribe of acid-crazed worshippers. Future rock legend Peter Wolf was a radio DJ spinning the blues on the overnight shift. Lou Reed was often hanging around town, sharing hippie tracts on ritual magic with friends like Jonathan Richman. Walsh even catches up with Morrison's long-lost flower-child bride Janet Planet, now selling her love beads on Etsy, who tells him, "Being a muse is a thankless job, and the pay is lousy." R.S.
Women Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives by Holly Gleason
Now that Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris, Margo Price and more are smashing country's glass ceiling with progressive songwriting and attitudes, there's probably no better time for Women Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives. "Part history, part criticism," in the words of editor and journalist Holly Gleason, these 27 essays, all penned by women writers and musicians, celebrate female country heroines: household names (Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn) and those who deserve more attention (rockabilly wildcat Wanda Jackson, jazz pianist Lil Hardin, who once played behind Jimmie Rodgers). Rosanne Cash writes lovingly of her stepmother, June Carter Cash, for supporting her dad Johnny: "If being a wife were a corporation, June would have been the CEO." Grace Potter pays respect to the voice, musical versatility and wardrobe of Linda Ronstadt, calling "Blue Bayou" her "comfort food." In a previously unpublished mash note written when she was a teen, Taylor Swift rhapsodizes over big-voiced Sixties crossover queen Brenda Lee, calling her someone "who mastered the sound of heartbreak so flawlessly that she made audiences not only identify with her but believe her."
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'Don't Let Me Down' With Khalid And Sabrina Duet
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Grammy-nominated singer Khalid joins fellow emerging R&B talent Sabrina Claudio on her new song "Don't Let Me Down." Khalid's verses weave around Claudio's, mirroring her heartfeltthoughts with his signature wistful tone.
The song focuses on two lovers laying out their desires and reservations, yearning for the other to invest in the relationship. Claudio begins with a vulnerable opener: "Do you feel me here giving you love? Do you see me here opening up?" she sings over a bed of synths. The track builds toward the chorus with light, dancehall-inspired percussion.
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Prince's Paisley Park is hiring an archives supervisor
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Prince's Paisley Park is hiring an archives supervisor, Pitchforkreports. The late singer's private estate and production complex outside Minneapolis was turned into a permanent museum in 2016.
According to a job listing posted on American Alliance of Museums' career website, the full-time position is in the Archives Department, which is considered a confidential work area. The position entails maintaining and monitoring the exhibits, maintaining and updating the archival database system, photographing and scanning artifacts, assisting with exhibition installations and training staff, among other requirements.
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Cheap Concert Tickets
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Live Nation came out with a suspiciously good deal this week. The entertainment company, in honor of National Concert Week, announced 1.5 million $20 “all-in” tickets that fans can purchase to attend more than 2,000 performances across its slate of upcoming summer music shows. Artists involved in that offering include Arcade Fire, Halsey, Maroon 5, Post Malone, and the Smashing Pumpkins.
The $20 tickets have no hidden fees attached, and they aren’t a one-off gimmick – rather, they’re smart business strategy that also pays off for fans. One of the reasons Live Nation is floating such a sparkling deal is that consumer demand for live music these days is at record levels, giving concert-runners a guaranteed market. (Live Nation could also be using the discount to fill up some emptier venues. It’s likely making money, not losing it, here.) While the company has not yet responded to request for comment on whether it will unveil more of these deals in the future, it did offer up a fixed-rate, buffet-style festival pass last summer and a similar combination deal for country music in January. With artists now also exploring new models of pricing, concert tickets may soon be much less of a strain on fans’ bank accounts.
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Post Malone Breaks Streaming Record
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Post Malone set a new record for most streams in a week and established the best-selling week of 2018 as the rapper's Beerbongs & Bentleys opened atop the Billboard 200.
The album opened with 461,000 total copies in its first week of availability, with the majority of that total the result of a record-breaking 288,000 streaming equivalent albums, or SEAs. In total, tracks from Beerbongs & Bentleys were streamed over 431 million times this week to cruise past the previous record holder, Drake's More Life, which accumulated nearly 385 million streams upon its release in March 2017, Billboard reports.
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Kanye West and Kid Cudi's collaboration has hit streaming services
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By now, Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s collaborative effort Kids See Ghostshas hit all major streaming services. Its release last night – a livestreamed listening party outside of Los Angeles – was clouded in confusion. The event was delayed several hours without any updates, and one attendee described the experience of hearing the album live as “like a really good night at a bar, but we couldn’t even hear that clearly.”
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Elvis Costello Previews Upcoming LP ‘Look Now’ With Two New Songs
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With tour dates already booked, the ever-prolific songsmith Elvis Costello will release a new album, Look Now, this fall. The record features his longtime backing band the Imposters – which includes members of Costello’s original backing band, the Attractions – and will be his first full-length since Wise Up Ghost, his 2013 collaboration with the Roots. Look Now, which Costello co-produced with Latin Grammys winner Sebastian Krys, is due out October 12th.
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Michigan metalcore band We Came as Romans has died at the age of 28
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Kyle Pavone, vocalist in the Michigan metalcore band We Came as Romans, has died at the age of 28. No cause of death was revealed.
We Came as Romans confirmed Pavone’s death on social media. “Kyle's tragic loss came too early in his life and those of his bandmates. All are devastated by his passing,” the band wrote.
“We will miss his smiles, his sincerity, his concern for others, and his impressive musical talent. In lieu of flowers, we will be providing information regarding charity donations this coming week. The family and the band wish to thank their fans and the music community for all of their love and support as they navigate their grief.”
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Janet Jackson recruited Q-Tip for a soulful live version
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Janet Jackson recruited Q-Tip for a soulful live version of their collaborative 1997 track “Got ‘Til It’s Gone” on Saturday during the 2018 Global Citizens Festival at Central Park in New York, New York.
Jackson opened the performance crooning between choreographed moves on a stage crammed full of dancers and musicians. Q-Tip emerged from the shadows to deliver his brief verse, rapping, “You act all wild, when I tell you to settle/ I was working round the clock, but your girls want to meddle.” The duo ended their take on the Joni Mitchell-sampling single locked in a long embrace.
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Tibet House Benefit Concert
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Margo Price and Late Show bandleader Jon Batiste will lead 2019 Tibet House Benefit Concert, taking place February 7th at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Philip Glass once again will serve as artistic director for the event, with the composer also recruiting New Order’s Bernard Sumner, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Tibetan artist Tenzin Choegyal for the 32nd annual benefit concert.
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‘Make Music Winter’ Details December Events
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The Make Music Day festival unveiled a slate of parades, caroling and other festivities for Make Music Winter, to be held in cities across the country December 21st. The seasonal offshoot of the annual June event will take place in over 25 cities, including New York City, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Long Beach, California, Provo, Utah, Salem Oregon and Springfield, Pennsylvania. Events will be free and open to people of all ages and musical abilities.
New York City is set to host a handful of events, including a musical parade that will start in Manhattan, continue on the Staten Island ferry and wrap in the Staten Island neighborhood of St. George. Meanwhile, composer Patrick Grant has programmed an electric guitar parade that will take place in the streets of NYC and Roosevelt, Utah.
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Watch Chance the Rapper
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Chance the Rapper educates Cookie Monster and Elmo on the letter T and the theater in a new Sesame Street segment.
In “T is for Theater,” which premiered Saturday on HBO, Chance the Rapper and Cookie Monster compete for a role in a play about a monster who loves cookies. After Cookie Monster wins the role by devouring a plate of cookies, Chance the Rapper suggests, “Maybe I should just be Waiter #3?”
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Travis Scott, the Weeknd, ...
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Songs from Travis Scott, the Weeknd, and the National will appear on For the Throne (Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones). The soundtrack, which is available for pre-order, coincides with Game of Thrones‘ final season and will be released digitally on April 26th via Columbia in partnership with HBO.
The forthcoming album marks the first time the network has teamed with a major label to curate a soundtrack for the groundbreaking series. The LP will feature new songs from a bevy of artists. A$AP Rocky, Mumford & Sons, Ellie Goulding, SZA, Chloe x Halle, Jacob Banks, James Arthur, Joey Bada$$, Lennon Stella, Lil Peep, Maren Morris, Matthew Bellamy, Rosalía featuring A. Chal, The Lumineers, Ty Dolla $ign and X Ambassadors will also appear on the soundtrack.
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10 Mother’s Day Gifts for Moms
Mother’s Day is here and while your declarations of love can come from cards and candles and bouquets of dutifully-arranged blooms, consider springing for something a little more personal this year. Whether your mom is a casual music fan, has seen more concerts than she can count, or just needs help upgrading her audio gear, we’ve found ten gifts that will let mom hear “I Love You” in a whole new way.
1. Headphone Bookends
2. Vinyl Record Subscription Box
3. Crosley Cruiser Deluxe 3-Speed Suitcase Turntable
4. Reclaimed Instrument Bottle Openers
5. Personalized LP Record
6. The Beatles Original Studio Recordings (16 CD Box Set)
7. UrbanEars Ralis Portable Speakers
8. Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones
9. Bang & Olufsen Beoplay E8 2.0 Earbuds
10. Original Art From Saatchi Art
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2012’s 10 Day and 2013’s Acid Rap on Nostalgia
On Friday morning, Chance The Rapper’s young and cherubic face loomed over my Spotify, without any new music attached.
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Earlier this week, he announced that his cult classic mixtapes, 2012’s 10 Day and 2013’s Acid Rap, were joining the rest of his discography on all major streaming services after years of confined to Datpiff, LiveMixtapes, and SoundCloud. Along with 2016’s more official Coloring Book, they’re hailed as foundational to Chance’s career, but in keeping with his reputation as an independent artist, he had refused to make them widely available (or monetized) until today.
“I think it was dope that we all got to live through a time that we can remember when Acid Rap wasn’t everywhere and when 10 Day wasn’t everywhere,” Chance told Nadeska during an Apple Music interview. “I think it’s just time for more people to hear it and for people that grew up with it to have a little time to reminisce before the album drops.”
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Smooth Jazz
I think you can call them jazz, but look up The Bad Plus. You all will thank me later.
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Welcome to the Lightlife Lounge
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We’re here!
Lightlife and Rolling Stone take over Lollapalooza. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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Welcome to the Lightlife Lounge
The Lightlife Lounge was nestled between trees in the South Artist Village, making for the perfect shady break spot. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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Hot off the Grill
Juicy Lightlife Plant-Based Burgers on the grill. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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Swinging By
Singer Harry Hudson stops by the Lightlife Lounge for a quick bite. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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Serving it Up
Guests enjoyed custom Lightlife Plant-Based Burgers built with Chicago flavors. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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More is More
Trying out allllll the plant-based burgers. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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Peace and Love
The Lightlife Lounge was the perfect pit-stop between sets. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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Quick Bite
Stopping by for a mouth-watering plant-based burger. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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For the Win
Guests hung out, played life-size games, and more. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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Strike a Pose
Hanging around for the perfect picture. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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Quick Read
Checking out the new issue of Rolling Stone at the Lightlife Lounge. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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Burgers & Beats
Lightlife and Rolling Stone took over the Artist Village to share plant-based burgers with attendees all weekend long. Paid partnership with Lightlife Foods.
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The National will release a new concert film
The National will release a new concert film and EP of their performance at New York’s Beacon Theatre this past April. The National: I Am Easy To Find, Live From New York’s Beacon Theatre will air August 23rd via Amazon Prime Video.
The show took place April 22nd as part of the National’s 5-date stand, “A Special Evening With the National,” where they performed their latest album I Am Easy to Find and screened a short film of the same name directed by Mike Mills. The show also featured guest performances by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, This is the Kit, Mina Tindle and Julien Baker.
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“Playing a song live for the first time is like pushing it out of a nest, and a lot of them just hit the ground,” guitarist Aaron Dessner says in the trailer for the concert film, before the band launches into their passionate track “Rylan.” “We all got really emotionally attached to the whole thing — the record and the tour and these shows. Here in New York, we knew this was probably the one chance we were going to have to actually play all the songs from I Am Easy to Find.”
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Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Goes to Court
The music business will experience collective déjà vu next week when Led Zeppelin goes back to court facing claims that it ripped off its signature “Stairway to Heaven” from Spirit’s “Taurus.” But this time, the stakes are much higher.
After being tossed through years of flip-flopping decisions, the “Stairway to Heaven” case — in which Michael Skidmore, a trustee representing the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe, is accusing Led Zeppelin of stealing its 1971 song’s opening guitar riff from Spirit’s 1968 instrumental track — will come before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco for en banc (full court) arguments on Monday, September 23rd. While jurors in the original case had decided in 2016 that “Stairway” did not infringe on “Taurus,” a Ninth Circuit panel ordered a new trial in 2018 due to errors in the jury instruction process.
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Drake and Drake’s Dad Can’t Agree
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The unconventional rap beef truly blossomed in 2019. Over the last few months, hip-hop fans witnessed two rap stars wage an inter-podcast battle and a former and current NBA player rap at each other over Instagram and SoundCloud. Now, as autumn descends, we receive Shakesperian levels of familial drama from the Graham household. During an interview with Nick Cannon on Power 106 Los Angeles, Drake’s dad, Dennis Graham, objected to the way he has been portrayed in his son’s music.
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Kanye West Reaches for Greatness
Kanye West never stopped talking about God.
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While his ninth album, Jesus Is King, is his first to be classified as religious music, it’s also the latest entry in a public diary West has been writing for 15 years, in which his relationship with Christianity is constantly shifting.
“I don’t attest to any religion that tells me that other people gotta go to hell,” West said in 2008. “I don’t believe in a religion that has something against gay people. That has something against Muslims. That has something against Buddhists. You know? And I don’t really believe in any of that. I really believe in absolute truth.” His thoughts, obviously, have evolved in the decade since.
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Watch Jeff Goldblum, Sharon Van Etten Play Jazz Song on ‘Kimmel’
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Jeff Goldblum and Sharon Van Etten performed their classy jazz collaboration, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance,” on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The duo’s take on the 1936 Irving Berlin song appears on I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This, Goldblum’s recently issued second album with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.
“There may be trouble ahead,” Van Etten croons in a wide vibrato over Goldblum’s unobtrusive piano. “But while there’s music and moonlight and love and romance/Let’s face the music and dance.” The arrangement swells from there into organ and tenor sax solos.
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Just Some Wholesome Photos of Tyler
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Rihanna attended the British Fashion Awards on Monday (Dec. 2) night, where she was presented with the Urban Luxe Award by Janet Jackson, who she's credited as one of her childhood idols and inspirations to get her start in music.
Tyler, The Creator was also in attendance, as he posted a hilarious photo hanging with RiRi backstage. The candid flick finds Tyler with his arm around Rihanna while he secretly flips her off and the pair share a laugh possibly about their onstage exchange.
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Justin Bieber Impresses Hailey Baldwin on the Tennis Court in Sweet Throwback Video
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Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey Baldwin's love story goes way back, and the crooner has often shared sweet throwbacks of moments between the duo.
The most recent post came today (Jan. 14), featuring a video from Jan. 2, 2016, when the model joined Bieber and his family on a holiday Caribbean vacation.
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Five Burning Questions: BTS Posts 2020’s Best First-Week Numbers With ‘Map of the Soul
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The upward trajectory continues this week or Korean pop septet BTS, who have hit new commercial heights in the United States seemingly every year since their official 2013 debut.
Map of the Soul: 7, their latest full-length release, bows at No. 1 this week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, having moved 422,000 equivalent album units in its opening frame. The staggering number for the 20-track set -- which includes five tracks previously found on the Map of the Soul: Persona EP, also a chart-topper for the phenoms last year -- is not only a career high for BTS, but the best first-week numbers for any artist thus far in 2020. Meanwhile, the group also scores their highest peak yet on the Billboard Hot 100, with the No. 4 debut of 7 single "ON."
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Watch Quincy Jones Party With Travis Scott & Young Thug in ‘Out West’ Video
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Travis Scott and Young Thug unveiled a music video on Friday (March 20) for their hit "Out West," and it's one big party.
Travis co-directed the video alongside White Trash Tyler, and shows a wild, twerk-filled house party with Young Thug rapping above the crowd. The scene heads to the bathroom, where the viewer finds a girl passed out by the toilet and the legendary Quincy Jones splashing his face with water.
Jones makes a second appearance at the end, leaving the bash munching on a sandwich.
"Out West" has been a viral dance song on TikTok recently, and is featured on Jackboys' Billboard 200 chart topping debut album.
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BTS’ Debut Album & Single Return to the Charts After Fan-Led April Fools’ Day Joke
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Songs from the group's '2 Cool 4 Skool' album make their chart debut almost seven years after their release.
BTS' A.R.M.Y. fans are such an undeniable force that even their pranks can create a major impact.
Ahead of April Fools' Day 2020, fans across social media began anticipating the "debut" of a "new" boy band called BTS coming on April 1. While it was a joke, it was also a moment for fans to look back on the group's historic career and many took the chance to show extra love and support to the septet's actual debut album from 2013.
Originally released on June 12, 2013, BTS' first album 2 Cool 4 Skool made its debut on Billboard's World Albums chart this week at No. 12 nearly seven years after release. The record sold 1,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 2, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. To date, 2 Cool 4 Skool has earned 68,000 units in America.
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DaBaby & His Daughter Run a Lucrative Lemonade Stand in ‘Can’t Stop’ Video
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You can't stop DaBaby.
In his new video, the rapper flaunts his Midas touch by turning a lemonade stand into a big bucks business. Scuffles with police and thieves later, DaBaby and his daughter are seen in the kitchen of their fancy home, making treats and holding wads of cash.
"B----, you know I turn piss into lemonade / Turn s--- into sugar, that's chocolate pudding / Let you know I don't f--- with you anyway / Know I keep getting better, you thought that I wouldn't / I'ma keep lettin' off, I'm a renegade," he boasts in the high-energy verse.
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Makin’ Tracks: Ryan Hurd Moves Forward by Mining ‘Every Other Memory’
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Ever since its inception, when promoters promised to preserve “old-time music,” country has been a genre built upon the past.
Whether it’s recounting childhood events in the lyrics or borrowing the phrasing and technique from its predecessors, each generation has managed to bring history into the here and now.
With “Every Other Memory,” Ryan Hurd accomplishes that in two ways as the song’s protagonist recalls an old flame through a mental scrapbook of their time together. And one of the specific images is an Eric Church concert, which pays homage to one of Hurd’s real-life icons.
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Rapper Tray Savage Dies at 26
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Chief Keef's record label signee, Tray Savage, died on Friday (June 19), Billboard can confirm. He was 26 years old.
According to TMZ, who first reported the news, Tray (born Kentray Young) was shot and killed while driving around on the South Side of Chicago. He was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Canter, where he was later pronounced dead.
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Liam Payne has announced his livestream series, The LP Show
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Liam Payne has announced his livestream series, The LP Show. ‘Act 1’ of the series, which comes in the form of a livestream concert, will take place on July 17th at 3 p.m. ET via Veeps. Presale tickets will be available via Spotify beginning on Thursday, with general tickets available on Friday via Veeps.
“It’s a new approach to a livestreamed show that’ll be up close and personal like you’ve never seen before,” Payne posted on Twitter. “To produce the show, I’m working with currently out-of-use venues, a full band, as well as professional sound and lighting engineers currently out of work due to COVID-19 and I can’t wait to bring you the first in this series of live broadcasts.”
Tickets start at $10 and are available on a “pay as you want” basis. A portion of ticket proceeds will benefit The Trussell Trust, a nonprofit that supports a network of UK food banks.
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Nickelback released a cover of Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
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For a reason that can only be described as “It’s 2020,” Nickelback have released a cover of the Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Ostensibly a tribute to Daniels, who died in July, everyone’s favorite (sic) Canadian rock band strips the fiddle from both the song and its narrative, transforming the protagonist Johnny from a country-bumpkin fiddle phenom into a dive-bar guitar shredder.
Which would be swell as hell if only the song’s centerpiece showdown were worth a damnation. Instead, it’s as engaging as listening to — nay, watching — two dudes play Guitar Hero.
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TBS is adding a talent competition to its roster
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TBS is adding a talent competition to its roster — and it's not looking for the next great singer or comedian.
The cable outlet has ordered 10 episodes of Go-Big Show, which will feature "supersized talents" including monster truck drivers, alligator trainers and stunt archers, among others. The show has begun production in Macon, Georgia; host Bert Kreischer and judges Snoop Dogg, Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Nettles and Cody Rhodes announced the series Wednesday night in a promo that aired across TBS and sister networks TNT and TruTV.
"Go-Big Show celebrates unique, untraditional and unforgettable American talent," said Corie Henson, executive vp and head of unscripted programming for TBS, TNT and TruTV. "Each contestant brings tremendous heart and swagger, which also perfectly describes Bert and our judges, a dream team of larger-than-life talent."
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Willie Nelson and his sons Lukas and Micah covered “Watching the Wheels”
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To mark what would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday, Willie Nelson and his sons Lukas and Micah covered “Watching the Wheels” at part of a day-long celebration for the late singer.
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