Country Music Hall of Fame member Bill Anderson and modern outlaw Jamey Johnson lament the swift passage of time and take a stroll through a classic car museum in the new video for “Everybody Wants to Be Twenty-One.” Filmed at Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, the clip sees the two …
Read More »Dolly Parton Talks Feminism, Songwriting Therapy on 'CBS Sunday Morning'
Ahead of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, nine-time Grammy winner Dolly Parton was featured in a segment on CBS Sunday Morning, opening up about early adulation, the hidden benefit of songwriting and her personal view on feminism. “It’s my therapy,” Parton said of songwriting. “My ol’ guitar is …
Read More »Hear Gerard Way's Faithful Rendition of Turtles' 'Happy Together'
Gerard Way has debuted another new single: a cover of the Turtles’ “Happy Together.” The song will be featured in the Netflix adaptation of his comic series The Umbrella Academy. With assistance from former My Chemical Romance bandmate Ray Toro, Way remains faithful to the classic 1967 song. There’s a …
Read More »How a Startup Accelerator Is Trying to Find the Next Spotify
An app allowing users to create videos with the face of any person in the world, an immersive entertainment platform that lets fans interact with things they watch and an augmented-reality live music company are among the nine new startups that Techstars Music believes can shape the future of music. …
Read More »Watch Neneh Cherry Break Phone Camera Fourth Wall in 'Natural Skin Deep' Video
Swedish singer Neneh Cherry explores the way life is often viewed, and lived, through the lens of a phone in the new video for “Natural Skin Deep.” Artist and filmmaker Akinola Davies directed the clip, which finds Cherry singing the frenetic cut and dancing around the streets of Beirut, Lebanon. …
Read More »Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Dua Lipa With St. Vincent to Perform at 2019 Grammys
Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Dua Lipa, St. Vincent, Mark Ronson, Yolanda Adams, Fantasia, Andra Day and Chloe x Halle all joined the performance line-up for the 2019 Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy tweeted the latest announcements on Wednesday. Lady Gaga will perform with Ronson — and though no specific song …
Read More »A Music Startup Is Paying Artists For Their Future Royalties
In the music industry, big advance payments are old hat: A new artist lands a hit and a bunch of labels rush over waving multi-million-dollar checksfor his or her next album. But the high bets are often risky, and the cash only goes to a handful of names every year. …
Read More »See Ruston Kelly, Chris Carrabba Sing 'Mercury' Onstage in Nashville
Ruston Kelly recently unveiled shirts adorned with the words “Dirt Emo,” a pretty spot-on term to describe his sound that melds some Southern flourishes, like steel guitar and evocative, narrative songwriting, with the emotional draw — and communal cry-along quality — of emo’s best anthems. On Saturday night at Nashville’s …
Read More »In Bizarre Press Conference, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Refuses to Resign
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam held a press conference Saturday to apologize for the racist photo that appeared on his tribute page in his medical school yearbook, while at the same time saying he is neither the man wearing blackface nor the man in the Ku Klux Klan hood in the …
Read More »Kacey Musgraves Adds New Oh, What a World: Tour Dates
Update [7/19]: Kacey Musgraves has announced an additional five U.S. dates to her tour, with two shows each in Dallas, Texas, and New York City, and a stop at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville with Maggie Rogers. See the full list below. Kacey Musgraves has added a string of late-summer dates …
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