It’s a few minutes after gates have opened for day one of Chicago’s LakeShake Festival and Rachel Wammack is sitting backstage surrounded by small trailers: ones for Lindsay Ell, Cassadee Pope, Lauren Alaina, Maren Morris and a shared one for Miranda Lambert and the Pistol Annies. This is an unusual …
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Anitta and the members of Major Lazer don their best leopard-print outfits and throw a huge summer party in the new video for “Make It Hot.” Directed by Jovan Todorovic, the clip takes the dancehall influence of the Spanish-language song and puts it in its natural habitat: The tropics. Major …
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Billy Strings and Marcus King, two of jam, blues and bluegrass music’s most potent players, teamed up at last May’s DelFest to pay tribute to the Allman Brothers Band with a vicious take on “Midnight Rider.” Strings does his best Gregg Allman growl as lead vocalist and also adds an …
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Dave Bartholomew, the New Orleans musician, Fats Domino collaborator and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who co-wrote the R&B classic “Ain’t That a Shame,” has died at the age of 100. Bartholomew died Sunday at a New Orleans-area hospital, his son Dave Bartholomew Jr. confirmed to the Associated …
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Facebook has reversed its decision that saw Led Zeppelin‘s Houses of the Holy album cover temporarily banned from the social network. The ban of the iconic and controversial artwork, conceived by Hipgnosis’ Aubrey Powell and featuring naked children scaling a mountain, began earlier this week when music website Ultimate Classic …
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Lewis Capaldi is no casual Billie Eilish fan. The Scottish singer-songwriter likened her sound to “being punched in the face in the best fucking way possible … Like being assaulted by a big marshmallow man!” Capaldi first heard “When the Party’s Over” when it was released on Spotify last fall …
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Kamaiyah parties with Quavo and Tyga in her latest video for “Windows,” released on Tuesday. Directed by Damien Sandoval, the clip is a high-energy tribute to the black community of the Bay Area, including a Black Panther-inspired opening and several visual homages to the classic Nineties hip-hop videos of Hype …
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Bad Bunny continues his string of surprise new songs with “Estamos Arriba,” the reggaeton star’s collaboration with fellow Puerto Rican rapper Myke Towers. The Latin trap star hinted at the collaboration Thursday night in an Instagram post where he encouraged his 17.3 million followers to leave 100,000 comments in order …
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J. Cole has unveiled a pair of tracks from his label Dreamville’s forthcoming Revenge of the Dreamers III compilation. “Down Bad” features J. Cole, J.I.D, Bas, EarthGang and Young Nudy, and “Got Me” includes Ty Dolla $ign, Ari Lennox, Dreezy and Omen. On the funky, frenetic “Down Bad,” J.I.D serves …
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SiriusXM has hosted entire channels dedicated to the Beatles, Tom Petty, Pearl Jam, the Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra and more. Now, add another giant band to that list: Phish. The jam kings launch Phish Radio tomorrow, Friday, June 14th on channel 29. The channel will kick off by broadcasting the …
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