Chris Brown was arrested immediately following his West Palm Beach, Florida concert Thursday as police apprehended the singer on an outstanding felony battery charge. Following his arrest, Brown was booked into Palm Beach Jail and released on $2,000 bond soon after. The battery charge stems from an April 2017 incident …
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It’s unclear how, exactly, Drake pulled it off. On “Don’t Matter To Me,” a late song on the rapper’s latest album Scorpion, he recruits Michael Jackson for a duet. The late King of Pop is listed as a feature, and true to that billing, his voice handles chorus duties over …
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5 Seconds of Summer fended off Beyoncé & Jay-Z and a streaming surge for late rapper XXXTentacion to claim their Number One album with Youngblood. The Australian pop-punk act’s third album sold 142,000 total copies in its release week, including 115,000 traditional copies. 5 Seconds of Summer previously reached the …
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Swedish hard rock outfit Ghost paid tribute to Metallica with an intense cover of “Enter Sandman” in honor of Metallica receiving Sweden’s top musical honor, the Polar Music Prize,Thursday. Ghost took the stage in their trademark gothic costumes and opened the song with an eerie, deft piano part that twisted …
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Maroon 5 have shared the euphoric new video for their surprise cover of Bob Marley‘s “Three Little Birds.” The video combines footage of Adam Levine performing the Exodus classic alongside CGI-generated images of a body composed of various materials – including water, fire, leaves and, at one point, a bunch …
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Vic Mensa has returned with a ferocious new song, “Reverse,” featuring G-Eazy and producer Marshmello. “Reverse” is centered around an eerie piano loop that winds its way around pummeling trap percussion. Mensa’s bars are dense, breathless and packed with clever references like, “Rick Owens, I’m tip-toeing/ Push buttons, Kim Jong/ …
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Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, whose work in the spoken-word group the Last Poets helped earn him the title of the “Grandfather of Rap,” died Monday. He was 74. “It is with extreme sadness and a heavy heart that the family of Jalal Nuriddin announce the passing of this great pioneer of …
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Maroon 5 unveiled a cameo-packed video for “Girls Like You,” their latest Red Pill Blues single, which boasts a remix feature from Cardi B. The simple clip finds Maroon 5 performing the snappy pop-rock track on a sparse stage, but each time the camera circles around singer Adam Levine, a …
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Belle and Sebastian will lead a four-day Mediterranean cruise and music festival that sets sail August 8th through 12th, 2019. The trek is affectionately dubbed the Boaty Weekender in honor the 20th anniversary of the band’s 1999 festival, Bowlie Weekender. The cruise will include live performances across five stages with …
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Kim Kardashian defended Kanye West against accusations that he’s abandoned Donda’s House, the foundation the rapper co-founded to honor his late mother, in a series of tweets Saturday. Kardashian’s tweets were aimed at Che “Rhymefest” Smith, the Chicago rapper and West collaborator who co-founded Donda’s House; earlier in the day, …
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