The Weeknd dominated the 2021 Billboard Music Awards Sunday, May 23rd, winning the most awards and delivering a wholly unique performance of his latest single, “Save Your Tears.” The pop star took home 10 trophies total, including Top Artist. For his performance of “Save Your Tears,” the Weeknd delivered the …
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Last Friday’s re-release of Nicki Minaj’s breakout 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty comes as a growing number of popular artists open up their back-catalogs to streaming platforms. For artists whose profile grew at the height of the blog era, many of these early releases offer a look at important …
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Updated (5/26): Additional performers have been added to the 2021 CMT Music Awards, many of them collaborations: Breland and Mickey Guyton; Carrie Underwood and NeedtoBreathe; Chris Young and Kane Brown; Kelsea Ballerini and LANY’s Paul Klein; and Lady A with Carly Pearce and Gabby Barrett. Lauren Alaina is also set …
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Randy Rhoads‘ masterful guitar solos and unique approach to heavy-metal riffing, which drew more influence from Bach than Black Sabbath, made him an instant guitar legend with the release of “Blizzard of Ozz,”Ozzy Osbourne‘s 1980 solo debut. Rhoads had spent the previous couple of years struggling in an early lineup …
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Olivia Rodrigo could have been designed in a laboratory as the perfect teen pop star — except the best part is how gloriously, messily, authentically human she is. She’s a whole new pop-queen paradigm, ripping up the old playbook and starting again. She seemingly blew in out of nowhere to …
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Dead & Company have announced they’re hitting the road on a 2021 tour, kicking off August 16th in Raleigh, North Carolina, and running through Halloween, with a three-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl on October 29th, 30th, and 31st. The supergroup consisting of John Mayer,Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey …
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Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, and Eddie Vedder will serve as headliners at this year’s Ohana Festival, the annual Vedder-founded fest at Dana Point, California’s Doheny State Beach. This year’s fest runs from September 24th to the 26th with Kings of Leon capping off a Friday lineup that includes My …
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A woman who had been involved in a long-term romantic relationship with Soulja Boy has filed a lawsuit against the rapper, accusing him of sexual and physical abuse. The plaintiff filed the civil suit as “Jane Doe” in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday. The rapper, whose real name DeAndre …
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Jennifer Lopez led a singalong of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” to kick off Global Citizen’sVax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World, a Covid-compliant event at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium that marked for many both onstage and in the crowd their first concert since the pandemic began. “We’re all here …
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Amythyst Kiah delivered a potent version of “Black Myself” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Friday night. The lead single off her upcoming label debut, Wary + Strange,is a newly arranged rock rendition of the song Kiah first wrote for the supergroup Our Native Daughters‘ 2019 debut, Songs of Our Native …
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