With three free daytime stages and more than 110 artists performing across them, June’s CMA Fest offers plenty of no-cost entertainment options for fans over the event’s four days. On Tuesday, the CMA announced a slate of artists who will appear on the free stages: Kassi Ashton, Kelleigh Bannen, Dillon …
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John Singleton, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind films like Boyz n the Hood, Rosewood and Four Brothers, died Monday after suffering a stroke. He was 51. Singleton was hospitalized April 17th and later fell into a coma. Per a statement from his family, he was immediately placed in the hospital’s intensive …
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Sigourney Weaver reprised the role of Ripley in an Aliens spoof where Samantha Bee and other prominent journalists shuttle off to outer space to avoid the 2020 election. The prerecorded sketch screened Friday at Bee’s Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. In the sketch, Weaver’s Ripley and her crew are …
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After an old-timey introduction promising “dance music,” a dapper-looking Rammstein launch into a heavy-metal march (complete with imagery of stormtroopers) in the video for “Radio,” a track off their upcoming, as-yet-untitled album. The black-and-white clip, directed by longtime Rammstein collaborator Jörn Heitmann, shows imagery of women in World War II-era …
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If you work in radio right now and you want to hear the new Taylor Swift single before it comes out at midnight, you are required to navigate a series of stringent security measures. A label representative comes to your station at a pre-appointed time. Before hearing the single, you …
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Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé‘s father and the co-creator and former manager of Destiny’s Child, has announced he is producing a musical about the group told from his perspective. It’s unclear if the group’s classic lineup –Beyoncé, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland – have any involvement with the upcoming production. “I want …
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In June, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood will release their sixth studio LP, Servants of the Sun, on the singer’s own label, Silver Arrow Records. On Wednesday, the band previewed the LP by unveiling a new video for the track “Chauffeur’s Daughter.” In the song, a loping, gently psychedelic roots-rock tune …
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Jennifer Kaytin Robinson was sobbing in front of a row of rotisserie chickens. Standing dumbfounded in the aisle of a New York grocery store after her boyfriend dumped her, she heard Adele’s “Someone Like You” come over the sound system — and “I was trying to smile through it, but …
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John Oliver unpacked the most crucial details of the long-awaited Mueller report on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, continuing the saga he once-dubbed “Stupid Watergate.” He focused the segment on “two main factors that may have saved” President Trump: “incompetence when it comes to conspiracy with Russia and disobedience when it …
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Lizzo‘s major-label debut album, Cuz I Love You, re-introduces the world to a freshly evolved artist. While she launched her solo career years ago as a backpack rapper, the new album highlights the fact that Lizzo has since become a world-class belter, using the raw passion in her voice to …
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