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Country duo Sugarland joined pop artists like Andy Grammer, Luis Fonsi and Train’s Pat Monahan on American Idol on Monday, sharing the stage with the show’s contestants for a pair of duets in the Top 24 round. Appearing first with 16-year-old country singer Layla Spring, the duo’s Jennifer Nettles and …

In 2014, the singer Maluma took the stage at Madison Square Garden as part of a show hosted by Alex Sensation, an artist and DJ at Mega 97.9, New York City’s most popular music station in any language. At that time, Maluma was riding on the crest of “La Temperatura,” …

Jay-Z recalls the moment his mother, Gloria Carter, came out as gay to him in a new clip from his interview with David Letterman onMy Next Guest Needs No Introduction. “For her to sit in front of me and tell me ‘I think I love someone’ – I mean, I …

Caleb Scofield – bassist and vocalist for metal bands Cave In, Old Man Gloom and Zozobra, which he fronted – died in a car accident on Wednesday, New England Cable Newsreports. The musician was in his truck when it collided with a toll booth in New Hampshire. He was 39. …

Rolling Stones guitaristRonnie Wood revealed in a new interview that heis now cancer-free after being diagnosed with “a touch of lung cancer” in 2017. “I had three months of check-ups and it was all clear and they said go and enjoy life,” Wood told Metro. Wood had a part of …

Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda will make his first solo appearance since the death of bandmate Chester Benningtonat the Identity LA festival this spring. The free event, which celebratesAsian Pacific American Heritage Month, will take place at Grand Park in Downtown Los Angeles on May 12th. Korean-American hip-hop artist Jay …

Post Malone cruises in a tank through a post-apocalyptic desert in his bizarre “Psycho” video with Ty Dolla $ign. The clip opens with the rappers lounging in their military vehicle as it barrels through a barren wasteland. Elsewhere, Post Malone brandishes a flamethrower against a rabid, wolf-like creature and chases …

The last notes of “Please Please Me” still hung in the stale air of EMI’s Studio Two on November 26th, 1962, when George Martin’s disembodied voice crackled over the talkback from the control room above. “Gentlemen,” he addressed his young moptopped charges, “I think you’ve made your first Number One.” …

Courtney Marie AndrewsMarch 17th, Cheer Up CharliesCourtney Marie Andrews tends to lean into the melancholy undercurrents that run through her music, but the ethereal air that characterized both 2016’s Honest Life and the new May Your Kindness Remain lifts when she performs onstage. Her late-afternoon set at Cheer Up Charlies’ …

When Deep Purple didn’t show up for a gig once in Ohio in the early Seventies, opening act Fanny went on in their place. “And slammed,” recalls guitarist June Millington. “No one left, which impressed everyone. It was a big deal ’cause, well, you know: girls!” Four girls, in fact. …