Former Recording Academy CEO Deborah Dugan claims she was sexually harassed by the general counsel to the Academy and put on administrative leave for raising numerous concerns about goings-on at the Grammys in a new filing with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The 46-page complaint arrives just days before the …
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Last week, Keith Urban kicked off a 12-show residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. It’s a hard-rocking, on-your-feet-spectacle that, at nearly two hours, showcases a triumphant Urban blasting through a trove of hits, 17 in all. The January dates wrap up this weekend, before the country singer-guitarist returns in …
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London-based pop star Rina Sawayama announced on Friday that her debut album,SAWAYAMA, will arrive April 17th via Dirty Hit. She also shared a new single from the LP, “Comme Des Garçons (Like the Boys),” a club track that celebrates gay men and their rejection of traditional masculinity. “When I was …
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Green Day find themselves trapped in a tangled web of screens in the video for their new song, “Oh Yeah!” from their upcoming album, Father of All…, out February 7th via Reprise/Warner Records. Directed by Malia James, the clip opens with drummer Tré Cool introducing a low-budget YouTube tutorial on …
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A little over two years ago, Brandi Carlile played a small show at Nashville’s Basement East for the holiday party thrown by her new producer and label, Dave Cobb and Low Country Sound. It was there that she debuted songs from her album By the Way, I Forgive You, which …
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The Raconteurs dart through “Sunday Driver” in a preview clip from their upcoming episode of Austin City Limits, set to air January 11th at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT on PBS. The Raconteurs released “Sunday Driver” back in December 2018, and, at the time, the explosive ripper marked the band’s …
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Henry Rollins has partnered with Los Angeles Tourism for a five-part YouTube series offering tips and tricks on how to navigate a visit to the City of Angels. “To help travelers coming in and out of LAX in 2020, we enlisted one of our favorite world travelers, Rollins, to share …
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Miley Cyrus has reached a settlement in the $300 million copyright infringement lawsuit that accused the singer of stealing her 2013 hit “We Can’t Stop.” Cyrus’ lawyers previously revealed a settlement agreement had been made in a December 12th letter that would be filed “pending payment of the settlement proceeds.” …
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Nineties country music nostalgia has reached its peak with the announcement that Hot Country Knights, a faux band fronted by a costumed Dierks Bentley, has signed a record deal with Universal Music Group’s Nashville division. Bentley, who also releases his solo albums through UMG Nashville, started playing one-off gigs with …
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As the end of the decade approaches, our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast takes a look back at the best songs from the last days of the 20th century, via Rob Sheffield’s list of his 99 favorite tracks from 1999. Host Brian Hiatt and Brittany Spanos joined Sheffield in our …
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