It’s been a mighty grim year to be a Kanye fan. For a lot of people, this guy is just a celebrity douchebag who dabbles in music on the side. But for the first time, it sounds like Kanye agrees with them. It always seemed like he cultivated that “jerk-off …
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Bruce Springsteenwill join Grammy-winning rock band Portugal. the Man next week in his hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey for the reopening of concert venue Asbury Lanes. On Monday, June 18th, the event celebrates the multimillion-dollar renovation of Asbury’s beloved shuttered bowling alley, newly outfitted as a music venue. A …
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The 2018 CMT Music Awards continue to unveil talent for this year’s event: a group of first-time nominees, all of them rising talent in the genre, will take the Ram Trucks Side Stage at the show. Nominated for Breakthrough Video of the Year, artists Carly Pearce, Devin Dawson, Lanco, Lindsay …
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Roseanne co-stars Sara Gilbert and Michael Fishman, as well as showrunner Bruce Helford, decried Roseanne Barr’s racist comments about a former Barack Obama aide, which caused ABC to cancel the rebooted series. On Tuesday morning, Barr posted a tweet that compared Valerie Jarrett, who is African-American, to an ape: “muslim …
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Charli XCX has spoken out on the backlash that followed the release of Rita Ora‘s latest single “Girls,” which features XCX alongside Cardi B and Bebe Rexha. Upon the song’s release, it was met with concerns of how the mostly male writing team evoked exploitative, harmful stereotypes of sexual relationships …
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It’s been an action-packed week for Darius Rucker. Along with assisting American Idol runner-up Caleb Lee Hutchinson for a performance on the show’s season finale on Monday, he also appeared on Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to sing “For The First Time,” the second single from …
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Philip Roth died at a point in American history when separating fact from fiction has become an integral task in our daily political discourse and mental survival. But with a writer like Roth, fantasy and reality are intertwined – we think we know his life story through the stories he …
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Luke Bryan wrapped up his first season as American Idol judge by debuting the new single “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset.” Bryan took the stage during the show’s Monday-night finale prior to 19-year-old Maddie Poppe being named the season’s victor. An easy-rolling mid-tempo track filled with romantic nostalgia and golden-hour memories of …
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Ariana Grande opened the 2018 Billboard Music Awards performing her house-leaning single “No Tears Left to Cry.” Grande was lowered onto the stage on a platform made of umbrellas, where she joined a cadre of male dancers. As she stalked an intricately designed stage – full of arches, staircases and …
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Back in 2013, Courtney Barnett covered Kanye West’s ‘Black Skinhead’ on Australian radio as a guitar-charged glam-grunge stomp, reframing its outrage in her bedhead Melbourne white-girl flow. It was a questionable yet telling move for a fellow verbose storyteller, delivered just as her single “Avant Gardener” – adeceptively offhand first-person …
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