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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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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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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Danish soul-pop band Lukas Graham announced a headlining U.S. tour for early 2019. The 12-date trek launches February 22nd in Portland, Oregon and concludes March 15th in New York, New York. The jaunt will promote the trio’s upcoming third LP, 3, out October 26th. Fans who pre-order the album on …
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Lauren Alaina invokes the biggest stars of the decade in which she was born in her latest single, “Ladies in the ’90s.” The song is the Georgia native’s first new music since releasing 2017’s Road Less Traveled, which included the Number One title track. “I was born in ’94, daddy …
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On October 17th, the 2018 CMT Artists of the Year telecast will, for the first time in its history, feature an all-women cast of honorees. In addition, all of the guest performers will also be women. Three-time CMT Artist of the Year Carrie Underwood will take the stage with her …
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Peggy Sue Gerron, the woman who inspired Buddy Holly‘s 1957 hit song “Peggy Sue,” died Monday at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports. She was 78. Gerron met Holly in Lubbock in the mid-Fifties when he was a budding musician and she was still a …
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For the latest episode of Dwight Yoakam and the Bakersfield Beat on SiriusXM, the Grammy winner sat down for a jam session with guest Lukas Nelson for a joyous cover of Willie Nelson’s 1971 classic “Me and Paul.” Written about the elder Nelson’s mishaps with his drummer Paul English, “Me …
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The first thing Jon Batiste does when he wakes up each morning is write. It’s a exercise called Morning Pages, and Batiste has been doing it every day for several months now: three pages of handwritten free-writing to clear his mind and help open himself up to creativity before he …
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Country radio will mark the one-year anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre with a moment of silence on Monday, October 1st. In addition, the lights of the hotel and casino signs on the Las Vegas Strip will go dark on Monday evening at 10:01 p.m./PT. Fifty-eight people were …
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