Gucci Mane recruits Bruno Mars and Kodak Black for the rapper’s latest single “Wake Up in the Sky,” a cut purportedly off the prolific Gucci Mane’s upcoming LP Evil Genius. Mars, who also produced the track, delivers the skyscraping chorus – “I drink ’til I’m drunk/ Smoke til I’m high …
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Samantha Bee unveiled her new civic engagement comedy trivia app, “This Is Not a Game: The Game,” on Wednesday’s Full Frontal, aiming to increase voter turnout before the 2018 midterm elections by incentivizing political knowledge. In the pre-filmed segment, the host showed the product’s development from concept to prototype to …
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Rachid Taha, the French-Algerian singer best known for fusing rock with raï, a form of traditional Algerian folk, has died from a heart attack at age 59. “It is with regret and immense sadness that his son Lyes, his family and relatives, his friends and his record label Naïve, announce …
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Joan Jett plays a classic hard-rocking riff on “Fresh Start,” a song from the soundtrack to her upcoming autobiographical documentary Bad Reputation, as she sings about wanting to start over anew. “So you say you’re not satisfied and you want a bigger piece of pie,” she sings, “take my advice …
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Courtney Barnett‘s Tell Me How You Really Feel was noisier and darker than her excellent 2015 debut. But in a taping for our raw “Take One” video series, Barnett decided to show that those new songs work just as well completely unplugged. Armed with only an acoustic guitar, Barnett delivered …
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“As it’s plain to see,” DMC explained to an audience of tens of thousands in 1985, “we have no band, just Jam Master Jay.” Broadcast to a potential audience of nearly two billion people the world over, Run-D.M.C.‘s performance at the 1985 Live Aid concerts was probably hip-hop‘s most-witnessed seven …
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It was exactly 40 years ago today that Who drummer Keith Moon was found dead at a London flat owned by Harry Nilsson after overdosing on clomethiazole, which he was prescribed to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms. By tragic coincidence, it was the exact same apartment where Cass Elliott of …
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After launching her movie career in 1980 with9 to 5 —starring alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin — Dolly Parton returned to the screen in 1982 for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Thecampy movie featured Burt Reynolds, Hollywood’s most bankable star at the time, who had already starred inDeliverance(1972),The …
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John Prine‘sThe Tree of Forgiveness Tourhas brought him to sold-out venues like Radio City Music Hall and San Francisco’s Warfield. But the biggest celebration is likely going to be Prine’s own All the Best festival, happening place November 11th through the 15th, 2019, in Punta Cana. Prine will perform four …
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Metric seize a grandiose moment on their new song “Now or Never Now,” the latest offering from the Canadian group’s upcoming album, Art of Doubt, out September 21st. “Now or Never Now” is a sprawling cut that flies forward on the back of a whirlwind rush of drums while an …
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