Carole King is backstage at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, glowing with excitement over being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame minutes earlier. Taylor Swift inducted the songwriter and her speech sent King through a whirlwind of emotions: One minute she’s crying, and the next she’s laughing over …
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Femi Kuti, the renowned multi-instrumentalist son of legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin have teamed up to co-curate Fela Boxset 5. The set is expected to ship in December and it’s available for preorder. The latest volume in the series comprises seven albums: Why Black Man …
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London rapper Little Simz has shared the music video for “I Love You, I Hate You,” a standout track from her latest album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert that finds her tackling the topic of parental strife. Directed by Jeremy Ngatho Cole, the visual uses art to address resentment and …
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Ringo Starr channels some of his earliest rock & roll memories for a lively performance of “Rock Around the Clock” in a new music video for his recent cover of Bill Haley and His Comets’ classic. The clip captures Starr laying down vocals and drums for the track in his …
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Fresh off Tems’ sold-out U.S. tour, the rising Nigerian singer-songwriter has dropped the new video for “Crazy Tings,” a track fromTems’ recent EPIf Orange Was a Place. The video captures an eventful night out on the town where “crazy things are happening” all around the singer as she travels from …
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Houston rapper Maxo Kream, or Emekwane Ogugua Biosah Jr., blew it the first time he took the stage. “I start rapping and I choked, like on some Eminem-type shit,” says Maxo Kream, who was around 19 at the time of his first onstage performance. But that didn’t mean the larger-than-life, …
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Kanye West staged an increasingly rare performance Saturday, delivering a handful of hits during a wedding in Venice, Italy. A masked West — who, not counting his Donda stadium playbacks, last performed in March 2020 alongside his Sunday Service — reportedly delivered “Runaway,” “Flashing Lights,” and Donda’s “Come to Life” …
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A day before Coldplay drop their new album Music of the Spheres, the band has announced a 2022 “sustainable and low-carbon” tour that will bring the new LP to stadiums around the world. The Music of the Spheres Tour — kicking off March 18th, 2022 in Costa Rica — aims …
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UPDATE (10/14): A lawyer for Jennifer Hough denied Nicki Minaj‘s legal team’s attempt to grant an extension to respond to Hough’s lawsuit; because the rapper’s legal team did not respond to the witness intimidation lawsuit, Hough’s lawyer Tyrone Blackburn filed a petition requesting a $20 million default judgment, which Minaj’s …
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Johnny Marr has announced a new double album, Fever Dreams Pts 1-4, marking his fourth solo full-length release. The 16-track double LP is due to be released February 25th, 2022 via BMG, making it the former Smiths guitarist’s first album of new music since his 2018 release Call The Comet. …
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