Olivia Rodrigo appeared on CBS Sunday Morning — from the childhood bedroom where she wrote many of what became her hits — to discuss her meteoric rise over the past year, her new album Sour and going to therapy. CBS’ Tracy Smith first gave viewers a rundown of Rodrigo’s career …
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Cordae has dropped the video for new song “Super.” Produced by longtime collaborator Kid Culture along with Genius, the track will appear on his upcoming album, From a Bird’s Eye View, which is expected to arrive later this year. The new Arrad-directed clip opens on Cordae standing atop a tall …
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Pharrell Williams slammed the leadership of his hometown of Virginia Beach and its “toxic energy” in an open letter regarding the future of his Something in the Water Festival. The letter, issued Tuesday, October 5th, was addressed to Virginia Beach City Manager Patrick Duhaney, who sent Pharrell a letter at …
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Rapper Pooh Shiesty has reversed course and no longer wants a delay of his October 25th trial on charges he shot a man in the buttocks during an alleged Florida robbery involving a rented bright-green McLaren, high-end sneakers, marijuana, and liquid codeine. The Memphis native, whose Back in Blood collaboration …
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Lizzo delivered a TED Talk about the black history of twerking and body positivity. “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to TED Twerk,” she quipped at the onset. The rapper notes that the August 2021 TED Talk is the first time she’s been in front of a crowd since March 2020; she’s …
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It’s 10 p.m. in the sleepy London suburb of Sidcup when musician Tirzah Mastin puts her children to bed and joins me for our first call over Zoom. Beside her, a whirring static scratches from her baby monitors. It evokes the dusty quiet after a needle drops, just before a …
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Zac Brown Band’s 2021 headlining Comeback Tour is temporarily on hold. The group has canceled four of its upcoming dates after Brown tested positive for Covid-19. Brown made the announcement on the group’s social media on Tuesday, noting that he’d become infected “despite taking precautions.” The tour has been underway …
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The Killers performed live from the top of 30 Rock for The Tonight Show, unleashing renditions of two songs, “Dying Breed” and “When You Were Young.” The group gave a raucous performance for a small crowd of fans, who gathered on the New York City rooftop alongside host Jimmy Fallon. …
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For the first wave of grunge superstars, 1991 was “the year punk broke.” For many of the rock bands that were already popular in 1991, it was the year punk broke them. But grunge and punk didn’t overtake the Aqua Netted power ballads that dominated late-Eighties and early-Nineties MTV overnight. …
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David Biral and Denzel Baptiste, better known as the production duo Take A Daytrip, have spent years building worlds with Lil Nas X. You may have caught them in one of the Twitter guru’s latest videos, clad in scrubs and anxiously aiding Nas X as he delivered his debut album …
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