As the father of two young boys, Eric Church has had to do his share of monster checks before bedtime. He uses that paternal responsibility to frame his new song “Monsters,” the latest release off his upcoming album Desperate Man. Written by Church with bandmate Jeff Hyde (who released the …
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After a lengthy battle with Cash Money — his label home for his entire, decades long career — Lil Wayne is now the proud owner of Young Money, his longtime imprint. In a new Billboard cover story, Wayne reveals that he settled for an undisclosed sum, ownership of the imprint …
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Young Thug turned himself in to the Dekalb County Sheriff’s Department and was charged with five violations of the Georgia Controlled Substance Act. The sheriff’s department database shows that the rapper (real name: Jeffery Lamar Williams) was booked Tuesday afternoon. The charges stem from a September 2017 arrest when Brookhaven …
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Drake’s music taste can move the needle for a new artist. The minute Aubrey Graham started singing Octavian’s “Party Here” at a Golden Globes afterparty, the 22-year-old rapper and singer’s fate was sealed: The Londoner was now, officially, a thing. Since then, he’s walked in Virgil Abloh’s first Louis Vuitton …
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Blink-182 have canceled a mini-tour originally scheduled for the fall, including their headlining Riot Fest appearance in Chicago, which takes place September 14th to 16th. The band announced in a statement via Twitter that drummer Travis Barker‘s medical issues were “still too risky” for his medical team to permit him …
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“I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician,” Anthony Braxton told me in 2007. “I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.” Born in 1945 on Chicago’s South Side, the brilliant …
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Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, the co-stars of the upcoming musical drama A Star Is Born, announced the movie’s official soundtrack, out October 5th via Interscope Records. The two leads appear on the album’s 19 songs, either in solo or duet form. The LP traces the creative and romantic arc …
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A coroner’s report intothe deathof Vinnie Paul has determined that thePanteradrummer died of a heart condition. Paul was found dead in his Las Vegas home June 22nd at the age of 54. According to the Clark County Coroner’s Office, Paul suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition which restricts the heart’s …
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Lindsay Kemp, a British dancer and choreographer who acted as a mentor and collaborator to David Bowie, died Saturday in Tuscany, Italy at the age of 80. Nendi Pinto-Duschunsky, the director of the in-production documentary Lindsay Kemp’s Last Dance, confirmed Kemp’s death in a Facebook post where she noted he …
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Very few musicians can decorate their studio wall with a medical school diploma. In 2015, before PJ Sin Suela emerged as a fresh face in the Latin hip-hop scene, the Puerto Rican rapper celebrated his medical school graduation with friends and family. In what should have been a moment of …
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