The ACM Awards will once again be held in Nashville. Traditionally staged in the spring in Las Vegas, the Academy of Country Music’s flagship ceremony relocated to Nashville for the 2020 installment, which was delayed by the pandemic until September. The 2021 ACMs will ease back into their regular schedule …
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There’s no way to precisely quantifythe colossal amount of drugs Black Sabbath inhaled in 1972 while making their fourth album, which they’d hoped to title Snowblind, in tribute to their favorite powdered narcotic. All they have to go on is the bill their manager presented to them when they were …
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Julien’s Auctions will celebrate Janet Jackson‘s birthday this year with an auction of the pop star’s belongings, held the weekend of May 14th through the 16th in Los Angeles. The auction consists of 1,000 items, including several costumes from Jackson’s music videos like “If,” “Together Again,” and “Scream,” as well …
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Greta Van Fleet have released a new song, “Heat Above,” from their upcoming album, The Battle at Garden’s Gate, set to arrive April 16th. “Heat Above” will be the first track on The Battle at Garden’s Gate, and it arrives with the heavenly drone of a Hammond organ before opening …
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Phoebe Bridgers concluded her Saturday Night Live performance on February 6th by attempting to smash her guitar onstage — a fitting finale for an apocalyptically intense folk-rock song called “I Know the End.” There was Bridgers doing her very own London Calling, attempting to smash her Danelectro Dano ’56 baritone …
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On Tuesday evening, a video of Morgan Wallen casually tossing off a racial slur emerged. By Wednesday morning, his career was systematically being dismantled. In a blowback unprecedented for a white male country music star — the Chicks were ostracized for far less in 2003 — Wallen had his music …
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Luke Combs and Maren Morris are set to participate in a joint online Q&A session February 17th during Country Radio Seminar that will focus on accountability and their roles as artists. Country Radio Seminar 2021, being held as a virtual event due to the Covid-19 pandemic, takes place February 16th …
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Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton and Cassadee Pope were among the country artists to condemn Morgan Wallen after the singer was caught on video uttering a racial slur. Wallen, whose new LP Dangerous: The Double Album has spent three straight weeks atop the Rolling Stone Top 200 album chart, …
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UPDATE (2/2):Marilyn Manson‘s longtime booking agent, CAA, has dropped the musician from their roster after multiple allegations against him of physical and sexual abuse, per Variety. The agency also represents Evan Rachel Wood, the actress and Manson’s ex-girlfriend who accused the musician of abuse on Monday. **** Marilyn Manson’s record …
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David Bowie’s “Brilliant Live Adventures” series — a six-part release focusing on the late icon’s Nineties concerts — continues February 12th with its fourth installment, Look at the Moon! (Live Phoenix Festival 97). The latest release features Bowie’s performance at the Phoenix Festival in Long Marston, England, on July 20th, …
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