UPDATE (1/22): Melissa Etheridge, Nuno Bettencourt, Jessie J and Kesha have been added to the previously announced MusicCares Person of the Year Tribute lineup. *** The Recording Academy has announced its performer lineup for the 2020 MusiCares Person of the Year Tribute. This year, for its 30th tribute show, the …
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A$AP Rocky made his first return to Sweden following his arrest in the country last summer for a lively performance at Ericsson Globe in Stockholm on Wednesday. The rapper donated a portion of the ticket proceeds to Swedish Network of Refugee Support Groups, which is a volunteer organization that works …
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Lizzo and Pete Buttigieg found themselves breathing the same air during an appearance on CBS This Morning Thursday, during which the Democratic presidential hopeful partook in the time-honored tradition of politicians awkwardly quoting pop songs. When host Gayle King prompted Buttigieg with the question of whether or not he’d recently …
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Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe and Poison came together at SiriusXM’s Los Angeles headquarters last week to announce The Stadium Tour, which will take them all across North America in the summer of 2020. It was a rare union of three of the most popular groups from the Eighties hard rock …
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New documentaries on New Order and Duran Duran will premiere back-to-back on Showtime December 27th, with New Order: Decades airing at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT and Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Showtime also unveiled trailers for both documentaries. Directed by Mike Christie, New Order: Decades …
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Beat-makers dream of instant success. But the first time the producer Paul Couture sent instrumentals to the veteran rapper Max B, the feedback he received was tepid. “Max didn’t like anything, none of it,” Couture says. At the time, “I was working on a reggae album, a pop album, and …
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Days after announcing their reunion, the Pussycat Dolls appeared onstage together for the first time in nearly a decade as the girl group performed on the finale of the U.K.’s The X Factor. The quintet – Nicole Scherzinger, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta and Kimberly Wyatt, all members of …
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Two K-pop singers were sentenced to prison after a South Korean court found them guilty on charges that they sexually assaulted women too drunk to give consent and then shared secretly filmed videos of those rapes with friends in a private online chat. Jung Joon-youngand Choi Jong-hoon, both 30 years …
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Venerable songwriter Robbie Robertson has a new Christmas single out, available for digital download. It’s called “Happy Holidays” and features Robertson’s humorous take on wintertime festivities and cheer. “Please don’t leave Old Saint Nick/Too much milk and cookies/’Cause by the time he gets round to us/He won’t be able to …
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Louis Tomlinson has released “Don’t Let It Break Your Heart,” the fourth single from his upcoming debut solo album Walls. The former One Direction star’s new pop anthem, which he shared on Saturday, is an empowering look at leaving heartbreak behind for “something better.”“Don’t you let it kill you/ Even …
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