Police arrested the fourth suspect in the shooting death of 20-year-old rapper XXXTentacion (real name Jahseh Onfroy) Tuesday. Trayvon Newsome, 20, was taken into custody shortly before 5 p.m. ET, according to a statement posted by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office on Twitter. Newsome surrendered at his lawyer’s office in …
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Dionne Warwick rejected an accusation put forth by a new Whitney Houston documentary that claimed her sister Dee Dee Warwick molested Houston during the late singer’s childhood. “I have tried to refrain from responding to that. First of all, it’s totally hogwash. My sister would never, ever have done anything …
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Will Hoge recently released his new song “Gilded Walls,” a scathing takedown of privilege and political inaction set to a blistering blues-rock groove. Alongside thepreviously released “Thoughts & Prayers,”the song will be featured on the singer-songwriter’s explicitly political new album My American Dream, due this October and produced by Hoge …
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Jorja Smith just wrapped a sold-out show at Chicago’s 1,300-capacity Thalia Hall, but she still has work to do. The 21-year-old London singer takes a seat backstage as her hairdresser appears and begins to meticulously braid each strand of Smith’s hair into tight knots – an eight-hour process that has …
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Brandon Flowersdiscussedthe Killers‘ early days onLate Night With Seth Meyers. The singer said he used to peruse classified ads, which is how he found guitarist Dave Keuning (who is slated to appear at Smashing Pumpkins upcoming 30th anniversary tour stop). He also remembered that their first show at an open …
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“What a great opener, ‘Hello, I love you, tell me your name,’” theDoors‘ drummer John Densmore says. “Like, whoa, OK. That’s aggressive. You’re in love with me but you don’t know my credentials?” He laughs and says that kind of pickup line was not frontman Jim Morrison’s style at all, …
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Germany’s Bear Family Records continues its incomparably exhaustive work with the upcoming release of a20-CDset honoring Lefty Frizzell, one of the most influential country musicians of all time. Featuring re-mastered versions of every 45, 78, and LP track from Frizzell’s career, along with several previously unissued session recordings, theaptly titled …
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Clare Bronfman, an heiress to the Canadian-based Seagram’s liquor company, was arrested on Tuesday in connection with her ongoing work with self-help group NXIVM and charged with racketeering conspiracy. Once an international equestrian competitor, Bronfman is the 39-year-old daughter of the late billionaire and former Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Sr. …
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The influence of Jamaican pop can be felt everywhere today, from Drake’s “Controlla” to Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” – but Jamaican practitioners of the form have had a hard time breaking through on the U.S. charts in recent years. Enter Protoje, who’s emerged as a leader of the modern …
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One day, while working in the studio with a pushy male collaborator, Bebe Rexha knew she’d had enough. Her partner at the session was having trouble with ProTools. Rexha knew the recording program well, having mastered it during her years as a teenage songwriter, when she couldn’t afford producers, engineers …
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