BTS will release their seventh LP, Map of the Soul: Persona, on April 12th via Big Hit Entertainment. The South Korean boy band’s latest album follows a stream of 2018 releases: the Korean-language Love Yourself: Tear and compilation set Love Yourself: Answer and the Japanese-language Face Yourself. The chart-topping former …
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It’s a sunny spring day in 2016 and Ronnie Spector is seated at a New York hotel bar. As she looks back on her career, she pinpoints the session she did with the Wrecking Crew for “Be My Baby.” The first time she heard Hal Blaine play the song’s opening …
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The death of Prodigy singer Keith Flint has been ruled a suicide as a result of hanging, the BBC reports. A coroner revealed the cause of death to an inquest in Essex, England Monday. A toxicology report is still in the works and a full hearing is scheduled to take …
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At the SIR Studio in West Hollywood Monday night, a panel discussion of punk-rock icons devolved into filth and fury — what better way to honor the Epix network’s new docuseries, Punk, which premieres on March 11th? At the heart of the disruption was John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten). The …
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It’s a sunny spring day in New Orleans, and three men who look like the Sunset Strip coughed them up in 1985 are on a smoke break outside the Saenger Theatre. They’re there to portray Mötley Crüe in Netflix’s unruly new biopic, The Dirt. Inside, fake roadies are setting up …
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Slipknot announced that they will release their new album on August 9th alongside plans to tour North America this summer. The 29-city Knotfest Roadshow will start July 26th at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California and wrap September 8th at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion at the Woodlands, Texas. …
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Thomas Rhett made his Saturday Night Live debut as the country singer appeared as the show’s musical guest on the latest John Mulaney-hosted episode. To kick off his set, Rhett performed his new single “Look What God Gave Her,” which will be featured on his upcoming fourth studio album, Center Point …
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With the two tracks previously unveiled from Reba McEntire’s forthcoming album Stronger Than the Truth, the singer has signaled her renewed emphasis on pure country music – simple, affecting storytelling backed by traditional instrumentation. But with the just-released “In His Mind,” romantic devotion takes a sad, sorrowful turn as the …
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The catalog of rap legends De La Soul is set to hit streaming services after decades absent from any digital marketplace. The release will conclude a long-running dispute between De La and their label, Tommy Boy Records, and the attending legal complications that kept their fans from accessing their music …
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For someone so well known for his storytelling, Hayes Carll is a man of few words. Either that or a chronic self-editor: Speaking slowly and carefully, with long, thoughtful pauses, he often stops to correct himself and start all over mid-sentence, once the optimal phrasing has emerged in his mind. …
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