Who isn’t on this album? On Wednesday, Calvin Harris finally announced that his album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 is coming on Aug 5 — and it features a laundry list of A-list collaborations. Sharing a lengthy teaser — backed with a guitar riff and a view of some ocean waves — Harris shared that …
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The two artists who sued Ed Sheeran for copyright infringement over “Shape of You” have been ordered to pay the pop star over $1.1 million in legal fees, Billboard reports. After Sheeran prevailed in the copyright suit, lawyers for the grime artist Sami Chokri and his co-writer Ross O’Donoghue tried …
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Lil Wayne has been pulled from the bill of another music festival as his run of bad luck continues. The rapper was forced to cancel his performance at the Strawberries & Creem festival in the U.K. on Saturday, June 18, after he was denied entry into the country “directly by …
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Burna Boy, the Roots, Isaiah Rashad, Freddie Gibs, Tierra Whack, and more have been tapped for the 2022 Afropunk Festival, returning to the live music sector for the first time since 2019. Having taken place virtually for the past two years, Afropunk will return to Brooklyn, New York’s Commodore Barry …
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Ohana Fest is adding a second weekend of music at the beach this October. On Monday, Eddie Vedder‘s music festival announced that it will be extending itself to a second “Ohana Encore” weekend with Vedder headlining, alongside Alanis Morissette on day one and the Black Keys and Haim on day …
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Vance Joy has released a sunshine-fueled new music video for his track “Catalonia.” The song appears on the Australian singer-songwriter’s new album, In Our Own Sweet Time, out now via Atlantic Records. The video was directed by Macari de Golferichs and stars Inés Coca. Recorded largely over the course of …
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The rumors are true: Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck have recorded a new album, 18, that will arrive this summer. After jetting off to Europe to play some shows with the famed guitarist amid the closing of his contentious defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard, Beck teased that the duo …
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Post Malone has tacked on a pair of bonus tracks — “Waiting for Never” and “Hateful” — to his latest album, Twelve Carat Toothache. The two tunes feature production from J. Lauryn and Malone’s frequent collaborator, Louis Bell. Both boast that quintessential Post Malone woozy hip-hop vibe, though on “Hateful,” …
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Coldplay performed at Metlife Stadium for a second night on their Music of the Spheres tour on Sunday and treated the audience to a surprise appearance from New Jersey’s very own Bruce Springsteen. The musician joined Chris Martin for a back-to-back performance of “Working on a Dream” and “Dancing in …
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The California Reparations Task Force has issued its first interim report, a nearly 600-page document that spends a full chapter focusing on the longstanding inequities surrounding the history of arts and entertainment in the United States. “Throughout American history, the federal government historically deprived Black American artists and innovators of …
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