The unsolved murder of Tupac Shakur is to this day one of the most widely debated homicides in music history – even now, over 21 years later, people still speculate about what exactly happened that night. This is what we know for sure: On the evening of September 7th, 1996, …
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R.E.M., Automatic For the People (25th Anniversary Edition)The remastered edition of R.E.M.’s 1992 masterpiece, which Rolling Stone named one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, gets packaged with demos from the band’s fertile early-Nineties period and a live recording from the 40 Watt Club, the storied rock venue …
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“When it rains, it pours,” goes the chorus to Luke Combs‘ latest single, and it couldn’t be more appropriate for the Nashville singer’s life these days. With the song from his debut LPThis One’s for Youclimbing to Number Two on the country charts, Combs appeared on Wednesday night’s post-CMA Awards …
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Jason Mitchell is apologizing for being tired. The 30-year-old actor is pouring a double espresso into what may be the single blackest cup of coffee ever brewed; he just flew straight from Chicago to New York this morning, right after he wrapped his new Showtime series The Chi about life …
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Like a true-life version of Forrest Gump, Delbert McClinton witnessed, and even influenced, some of the most pivotal moments in modern music history. The Texas-born singer/harmonica master was around at the birth of rock & roll, saw firsthand the raw beginnings of the British Invasion, and helped establish Austin as …
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Van Morrison has announced his upcoming 38th studio album Versatile, which arrives less than three months after the singer released his 37th studio album Roll With the Punches. While Roll With the Punches, released in September, found Morrison reinterpreting the work of blues and soul legends like Sam Cooke, Bo …
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A$AP Ferg teamed up with famed producer DJ Premier – whose productions buoyed classic albums from Gang Starr, Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z, among others – for “Our Streets,” a new collaboration full of head-nod-inducing drum loops, tuneful soul samples and the sounds of scratching vinyl. On his albums, Ferg frequently …
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Capitol Hill is still reeling from this week’s bombshell announcement that two senior Trump campaign officials have been indicted and another one has pleaded guilty in the independent investigation into whether there was collusion with Russian officials in the 2016 election. While many Democrats are now clamoring to take legislative …
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Kelsea Ballerini performed a special concert at her former high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Saturday, taking the stage to preview her new album Unapologetically. The event was part of the Tennessee Department of Tourism Development’s “The Soundtrack of America, Made in Tennessee” campaign, and Ballerini also donated $20,000 to …
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Migos enlisted Nicki Minaj and Cardi B for “MotorSport,” the first single from their upcoming third LP, Culture 2. The Georgia hip-hop trio boast about wealth and reminisce about their childhoods over gritty trap rhythms from producers Murda Beatz (Drake, Gucci Mane) and CuBeatz (Lil Uzi Vert). “Fix all your …
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