The 2019 CMA Awards embraced its theme of celebrating women in country music with a surprise performance of Little Big Town‘s 2014 hit “Girl Crush.” Immediately following her own performance of “Homecoming Queen,” Kelsea Ballerini was joined onstage by Lindsay Ell, who played the opening notes of the ballad on …
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Taylor Swift‘s “Lover” has gotten a sweet remix thanks to Shawn Mendes, who helped turn the ballad into a duet. Swift released her seventh album, also titled Lover, in August. Mendes adds some verses to the romantic tune, crooning, “We can light a bunch of candles and dance around the …
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Florida Georgia Line appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform two songs, “Simple” and “Blessings.” Both tracks come off the duo’s fourth album Can’t Say I Ain’t Country, which dropped back in February. “It feels amazing to be back with ya’ll,” singer Tyler Hubbard told the audience before playing “Blessings,” a …
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Last month, Joe Walsh wrapped up the Eagles‘ sold-out residency in Las Vegas, where the band performed Hotel California in its entirety — followed by a 23-song bonus set of greatest hits — with help from a 46-piece orchestra and 22-member chorus. Preparing for those shows was a mammoth undertaking, …
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Kelsea Ballerini makes a potent statement about self-care in her new song “Club,” which was released on Friday. “Club,” along with the Grand Ole Opry member’s current single “Homecoming Queen,” is the latest preview of the Tennessee third full-length album. A hybrid mix of acoustic instruments and cutting-edge pop production …
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It’s been nearly half a century since her tragic death at 27 from an accidental heroin overdose, but Janis Joplin’s life and music are still hugely resonant. In her landmark new biography, Janis, writer Holly George-Warren cites Pink, Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, and Lucinda Williams among the many artists who …
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Selena Gomez‘s “Lose You to Love Me” outpaced several heavily-streamed Kanye West tracks and took the Number One spot on the latest RS 100. “Lose You to Love Me” is a somber, unhurried ballad co-written with Top 40 heavy-hitters — a group that includes Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter — …
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Kanye West‘s new IMAX film, Jesus is King, is set in a massive art installation in Arizona’s Painted Desert — a defunct volcano that’s been artist James Turrell’s white whale for the last 40 years. Turrell has spent decades transforming Roden Crater— 21 viewing spaces connected by six tunnels — …
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Roddy Ricch is a simple man with simple pleasures. He loves: Forgiatos, Pateks, feeding the streets, bloody bottoms, ballin’ (preferably every season), and racks (preferably in the middle). In short, he’s a titan of industry — if said industry is rising post-regional West Coast rappers who spend the bulk of …
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A lost batch of unreleased recordings that Lou Reed made in 1975 — a dozen tracks that were inspired by a book written by one-time Velvet Underground manager Andy Warhol — have been discovered in the pop artist’s personal archives. The New York Times reports that Cornell University music professor …
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