Amerie will unveil her first LP since 2009 on Friday. The double-album 4AM Mulholland and After 4AM will be an independent release from the “1 Thing” singer who parted ways with Def Jam in 2010. “I love my projects to be very sonically cohesive,” she told Billboard about the double …
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My Brightest Diamond examines self-discovery through communal groove on her new song “It’s Me on the Dance Floor.” The whirlwind track previews singer-songwriter Shara Nova’s upcoming fifth studio album, A Million and One, out November 23rd via Rhyme & Reason Records. The single opens with an eerie organ section and …
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Kenny Chesney, Thomas Rhett and Jason Aldean will headline the three-day 2019 Tortuga Music Festival. The annual beachside event, which launched in 2013, is set for April 12 through 13th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Officially titled Rock the Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival, the concert doubles as a conservation effort for …
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Dierks Bentley wrapped up his Mountain High Tour at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles this weekend with a surprise appearance from Dwight Yoakam, who showed up to perform “A Thousand Miles From Nowhere” and then “Fast As You” with the help of Brothers Osborne. Bentley, playing on Yoakam’s home …
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As November election day approaches, political races are heating up. But the rancor between Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidates Scott Wagner and Tom Wolf may beat them all. On Friday, Republican candidate Wagner posted a now-deleted video on his campaign Facebook page. In the video, he angrily talked to the camera while …
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More than a decade ago, Tyshawn Sorey, then best known as a rising-star jazz drummer, informed listeners that he had no intention of playing it by the book. “The usual expectation of a recording of compositions by a drummer is that the drums will be featured throughout,” Sorey wrote in …
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NBC has greenlit a new music-related TV talent competition called Songland, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Maroon 5‘s Adam Levine, who serves as a coach for the network’s The Voice, Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart and OneRepublic‘s Ryan Tedder are among the show’s executive producers. Where The Voice develops undiscovered singers, Songland …
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Run the Jewels released a rugged new single titled “Let’s Go (The Royal We)” on Thursday. The song appears in the new Marvel film Venom. The beat is the star here — the instrumental is nasty, patient and buzzing. Run the Jewels’ El-P and Killer Mike take turns rapping tightly …
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Ariana Grande unveiled a new video for her song “Breathin’” starring her pet pig, Piggy Smalls. In the clip, which looks like it was filmed with an hand-held video camera, the tiny piglet climbs and sniffs around a grey faux fur blanket as the track plays. It’s unclear who actually …
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Wilco singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy recently performed a solo acoustic rendition of his song “Pecan Pie” while at Traveler’s Rest, the Missoula, Montana music festival organized by the Decemberists. The performance was part of this year’s Bedstock, an online music series put on by MyMusicRx, a charitable program of the Children’s …
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