As Mark Knopfler proved this year by not even showing upwhen his band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Dire Straits are never, ever getting back together. However, that’s not stopping past members, including keyboardist Alan Clark, percussionist Danny Cummings, saxophonist Mel Collins and guitarist Phil …
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A massive array of Maroon 5‘s gear will be up for sale on Thursday via Techno Empire’s Reverb shop. The sale includes microphones, guitars, drum machines and other instruments used by the band onstage and during recording sessions throughout their two-decade career. “We used all of this gear when we …
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Lil Yachty has released a new mixtape, Birthday Mix 3 From Boat, in celebration of his 21st birthday. This is the third consecutive year he has marked his birthday with a mixtape. Released exclusively on SoundCloud, the 16-minute compilation of unreleased music features Trippie Redd, Chief Keef, Gunna, YoungBoy Never …
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In 1975, Kitty Wells traveled to Capricorn Studios in Macon, Georgia, to record Forever Young, an album of country, rock and soul songs. Wells was 56 at the time and was looking to modernize her sound and image, just a bit. She hadn’t had a Top Ten country hit in …
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Cardi B faked out viewers at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards by teasing a possible reveal of Kulture, her daughter with Migos’ Offset – only to unwrap a Moon Man statue she was cradling onstage in a blanket. “I am the empress,” she said before the non-reveal, leading into …
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British pop group La Roux criticized Fox Business Network for using its 2009 song “Bulletproof” in a segment Monday about bulletproof clothing designed for schoolchildren, Pitchfork reports. The song was used to introduce a segment titled “Back to School Safety” on Maria Bartiromo’s morning show, Mornings with Maria. The piece …
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New music from Lil Peep and XXXTentacion is coming, according to ILoveMakonnen. The rapper broke the news about the posthumous collaboration on Instagram in what appears to be a studio session from XXXTentacion where he’s reflecting on Lil Peep’s death in 2017. “When I heard X’s recording, talking about my …
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In the summer of 1979, Conway Twitty earned his 22nd Number One hit with “I May Never Get to Heaven,” written by longtime friends Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen. Anderson had been enshrined in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame four years earlier, but has continued to have hits into …
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Before Wheeler Walker Jr. was melding raunchy lyrics with expert country instrumentation, there was Ween’s 1996 cult classic 12 Golden Country Greats. A collection of 10 songs — even the misnumbered title is a gag —the album finds the Nineties weird-rock duo parodying country clichés in tracks like “I Don’t …
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Nicki Minaj stars in a desert epic for her “Ganja Burn” video. The rapper released her long-anticipated album Queen on Friday. The clip begins with a title card setting the tone of the video. “Once upon a time, in a world unknown … there lived a queen, the Generous Queen,” …
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