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An associate of R. Kelly was sentenced to 96 months in prison on charges related to the intimidation of a Jane Doe victim-witness to dissuade her from cooperating with the government’s investigation into the singer. Michael Williams, a relative of an unnamed Kelly publicist, was previously charged in August 2020 …

Back in 2016, as the snappy, swooping “Lake by the Ocean” was blanketing R&B radio, Maxwell was already thinking about the end of a long-gestating album trilogy that started in 2009. He had just released the second part, blackSUMMERS’night, and he was daydreaming aloud about following it quickly with part …

Writing the biography of the man best known for marrying traditional Irish music with British punk — a sound once described by concertina player Noel Hill of the band Planxty as a “terrible abortion” of Irish music — was never going to be easy. To further complicate the matter, Shane …

Reunited space rock trio Failure return in December with Wild Type Droid, the Los Angeles band’s third album since their reunion in 2013. Ahead of the album’s December 3rd release on their own Failure Music – and available to preorder now – the group unleashed the first single “Headstand.” “The …

Kanye West returned to Revolt TV’s Drink Champs, which is a Black Effect Network podcast, on Thursday. In the Part Two interview with co-hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, the rapper —now legally known as Ye — discusses Gangster Disciple founder Larry Hoover, who is serving a life sentence in federal …

Dirty Projectors‘ Maia Friedman has released the video for new song “Where the Rocks Are.” It’s the multi-instrumentalist’s first solo single, which precedes her upcoming solo debut album, set to arrive via Last Gang Records. In the V Haddad-directed clip, Friedman walks a desolate highway set along water and mountains …

The night before the deadly Astroworld Festival in Houston, Darius Williams and dozens of other recently hired Contemporary Services Corp. staffers attended a five-hour orientation to work the ill-fated event as newly minted unarmed security staff. They were photographed, fingerprinted, and asked to take a state licensing exam for Level …

Rodolfo “Rudy” Peña was the youngest of five siblings and the undisputed “favorite” of his tight-knit family when he attended Travis Scott‘s Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday – and never returned, his eldest sister tells Rolling Stone. “My God, how do I even describe him? He was the sweetest …

An immersive hybrid of a museum, art installation, and sensory experience exploring the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur is coming to Los Angeles. The “Wake Me When I’m Free” exhibit will open at the Canvas at L.A. Live on Jan. 21 for a limited time. “It is a privilege …

Alice Cooper has announced a new tour set to kick off in the winter of 2022. Shows will launch in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Jan. 28 and will run through Feb. 8 before he headlines the Monsters of Rock Cruise. The tour announcement comes on the heels of Cooper’s recently wrapped …