In the early ’00s, while his career as a pop hitmaker was taking off, Pharrell Williams invented his side project N.E.R.D, with Chad Hugo and Shay Haley, as a dumping ground for his most off-kilter impulses – scrambling everything from funk rock to hallucinatory soul to prog-rock. If their records …
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David Bowie‘s unparalleled legacy and the remarkable final years of his life and career are teased in the new trailer for the upcomingHBO documentary, David Bowie: The Last Five Years. The film premieres January 8th, on what would’ve been the musician’s 71st birthday. The Last Five Years will focus on …
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“We’d both rather fail and be ourselves than succeed and be somebody else,” says John Osborne. As one half of the Grammy-nominated duo Brothers Osborne, John has helped bring guitar-heavy country-rock back into the mainstream, ignoring the country genre’s pop-leaning trends in the process. He joins brother T.J. as a …
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Camila Cabello released the lonely ballad “Real Friends” and a swooning, lovestruck number titled “Never Be the Same” this week. Both songs are instant grat tracks for fans who pre-order the singer’s upcoming debut album, which is due out January 12th. “Real Friends” is Cabello’s sparest single to date. The …
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A$AP Rocky has partnered with the candy company It’Sugar for a new cookie kit that will allow fans to bring their own ginger bread-based A$AP Mob to their next holiday party. The “Ginger Bread Mob Cookie Kit” comes with an eight ounce bag of gingerbread cookie mix, a person-shaped cookie …
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Demi Lovato‘s wedding day turns into a nightmare in the singer’s new video for “Tell Me You Love Me,” co-starring Grey’s Anatomy actor Jesse Williams. The first two minutes of the Mark Pellington-directed video are dedicated to the couple’s engagement as well as the jealousies that threaten to tear them …
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Modest Mouse singer Isaac Brock has been sued for damages of more than $865,000 stemming from a 2016 traffic accident, the Associated Press reports. In the complaint – filed on Wednesday in a Portland, OR court – Cassidy Kane said she suffered herniated discs and other injuries to her back …
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When Scott Weiland sat down with Rolling Stone for two long interviews in June 2007, the Stone Temple Pilots frontman was 39 years old, and feeling hopeful about the future. He had just lost his brother, Michael, to drug-related heart issues, but had broken his own drug habits after some …
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The Country Music Association’s annual holiday special premieres Monday on ABC. But this time, it does so with new host Reba McEntire stepping in for longtime emcee Jennifer Nettles. CMA Country Christmas airs at 8:00 p.m./ET with Reba ushering in the yuletide season. Taped in Nashville at the Grand Ole …
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Twenty years ago today, a maid at the Ritz-Carlton in Sydney, Australia discovered the lifeless body of INXS frontman Michael Hutchence hanging from a door when she came in to clean the room. “He was in a kneeling position facing the door,” read the police report. “He had used his …
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