Luke Bryan, Keith Urban and Maren Morris are among the performers slated for the fifth annual iHeartCountry Festival, set for Saturday May 5th at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. Radio personality Bobby Bones returns to host the main stage festivities, with a lineup that also includes Dustin Lynch, …
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Four notable Korean artists joined together to cover John Lennon‘s “Imagine” as part of the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang. Ha Hyun-woo of the indie rock band Guckkasten, Ahn Ji-young of K-pop duo Bolbbalgan4, Deulgukhwa singer Jeon In-Kwon and solo artist Lee Eun-mi each sang a verse of …
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Dev Hynes released two new songs under his Blood Orange moniker. “Christopher & 6th” and “June 12th” are the musician’s first new solo songs since he released Freetown Sound in 2016. “Christopher & 6th” — presumably a nod to the Manhattan corner not too far off from where the Stonewall …
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For Justin Timberlake, his Super Bowl halftime show is a success before it even happens – because he’s already earned the approval of his son. “I was at rehearsals a couple of days ago,” he told NBC Sports’ Dan Patrick in an interview set to air Sunday. “You start off …
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Chuck D has never been shy about sharing his opinions. From the earliest days of Public Enemy, the rapper spoke out about everything from police brutality to what he saw as systematic racism in American society. In the past year, he’s had a new platform for expressing his views in …
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Margo Price has hit the ground running in 2018 on the heels of her All American Made LP, which topped several critics’ year-end lists at the end of 2017. Barely one week after launching her Nowhere Fast Tour, Price has added new dates to her springtime itinerary. Those shows, all …
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The Black Eyed Peas practically disappeared after conquering the world in 2009 and following it up with a monster 2011. In that final year before going on hiatus, they played two of their three Number One singles at the Super Bowl halftime show, performed on four different continents, appeared on …
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This time every year, as the Grammys loom on the horizon, we all try to second-guess the Recording Academy, hoping against hope that the best artists (or at least our favorites) will get to take something home from the big ceremony. Once again, we’ve weighed the evidence and predicted who …
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Erick Sermon, the rapper and producer best known as one-half of the seminal hip-hop outfit EPMD, unveiled a biting new song, “Come Thru,” featuring Craig Mack, Mr. Cheeks and Method Man. The track is set to appear on Sermon’s forthcoming album, Go, which he’s funding through a Kickstarter campaign. “Come …
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A former bassist of the punk group the Ataris was arrested in late December for his role in a $27 million real estate scam. News of Michael Davenport’s arrest spread this week ahead of the bassist’s scheduled court date Wednesday. Davenport and his partner Cynthia Rawlinson were arrested on charges …
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