New Orleans’ Big Freedia will bring the bounce nationwide this fall on a trek dubbed Azz Across America Tour. Philadelphia rockers Low Cut Connie will join Big Freedia on the 21-date tour, which kicks off October 24th in Atlanta and runs through November 21st at Solana Beach, California’s Belly Up. …
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Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt wants to know where all the “wholesome country singers” have gone. The talking head tightly clutched her pearls over Kacey Musgraves calling for an end to gun violence onstage at Lollapalooza last weekend by — be still my heart — using an emphatic swear word. …
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Aretha Franklin‘s heirs vied for control over her estate at a periodically testy hearing in Oakland County, Michigan Tuesday. The hearing ended with Judge Jennifer Callaghan putting the estate’s administration partly under court supervision, the Detroit Free Press reports. The court will play an active role in many major decisions, …
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Lana Del Rey has written a new song, “Looking for America,” in response to the recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton. The singer posted a two-and-a-half minute snippet of the song on her Instagram page, where she performs the track live in the studio with producer Jack Antonoff. https://www.instagram.com/tv/B0zMqeRBF6X/?utm_source=ig_embed …
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Rihanna criticized President Donald Trump‘s response in the aftermath of a pair of mass shootings in the United States that left 29 dead. After the shooting at an El Paso, Texas Walmart Saturday that killed 20 people, Trump tweeted, “Today’s shooting in El Paso, Texas, was not only tragic, it …
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Wardell, the brother-sister indie duo from Theo and Sasha Spielberg, have released their first single called “I’m a Man.” The children of filmmaker Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw, the group will be releasing their second album later this year. “I’m a Man” is a low-tempo ballad from the siblings …
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Over the course of his songwriting career, Kendell Marvel has spent time in the same rooms as many Nashville heavyweights, including Chris Stapleton (“Either Way”) and Jim Lauderdale (“Twang”). Even so, he had a rare moment of intimidation when he was working on his new album and producer Dan Auerbach …
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Joe Diffie makes a triumphant return to the honky tonk with his new song, “As Long As There’s a Bar,” which premieres today. The lively, hard-twanging tune is the singer’s latest release from an upcoming album and has some echoes of his Nineties commercial peak, when he extolled his affection …
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The Kinks groundbreaking 1969 LP Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) is being re-released on October 25th as a four-disc deluxe edition to commemorate the album’s 50th anniversary. It will feature a remastered edition of the original album in stereo and mono, bonus tracks, demos, rehearsals, …
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Sixty years to the month after making her debut at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez wrapped up her career as a live performer Sunday evening with a show at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain. The emotional concert featured a cross-section of songs she’s been playing for decades, …
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