Martin Shkreli has finally been forced to part ways with what RZA‘s calls “the Mona Lisa” of Wu-Tang Clan albums, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, after the United States sold the one-of-a-kind record. All proceeds from the sale will be applied to the outstanding balance owed on the disgraced …
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Paul McCartney chewing celery on Super Furry Animals’ 2000 song “Receptacle for the Respectable” ranks among the strangest guest appearances of the legendary songwriter’s career. Now, ahead of the 20th-anniversary collection celebrating Super Furry Animals’ Rings Around the World, the Welsh band has offered up the isolated, one-minute version of …
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The Kid Laroi earned his first Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart with “Stay,” featuring a verse from Justin Bieber. The single, which was co-written by Charlie Puth and Blake Slatkin (24kgoldn’s “Mood”), among others, contrasts the Kid Laroi’s hoarse urgency with Bieber’s airy delivery; it …
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Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson appeared on a different type of stage this week as the heavy metal singer led a TED talk about his journey “from rock star to businessman.” Dickinson’s wide-ranging, 20-minute presentation — made in collaboration with TEDxMalmö — finds the Iron Maiden vocalist discussing a post-pandemic world …
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Olivia Rodrigo has been open about how much Taylor Swift‘s “Cruel Summer” influenced herSoursingle “Deja Vu.” Now she has made the connection official by adding Swift, Jack Antonoff, and St. Vincent as co-writers on the track. The songwriters have been added to the track’s Spotify and TIDAL metadata, with credit …
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Summer of Soul, the new documentary from Questlove, spotlights 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of concerts that entertainer turned promoter Tony Lawrence presented in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park in the summer of 1969. But less than two months after the final HCF show that August, Lawrence set his eyes …
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Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, and Jennifer Hudson will headline the upcoming Central Park Homecoming Concert, scheduled for August at the Great Lawn of the New York City park. Clive Davis will serve as the booker for the mega-concert, the centerpiece of a weeklong slate of celebrations marking the return of …
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Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley explain how their manager Bill Aucoin shaped them into the make-up wearing, fire-spitting rock gods they became in a new clip from Biography: KISStory, airing in two-parts, June 27th and 28th, on A&E. In the clip, Simmons remembers how Aucoin saw Kiss’ song “Firehoue” …
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“I want to have the real deal. I want to be able to get married and have a baby,” 39-year-old pop legend Britney Spears told a Los Angeles judge on Wednesday. In an emotional, 23-minute plea to L.A. Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny, Spears went on to detail exactly how …
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Devendra Banhart and his frequent producer Noah Georgeson have announced their new collaborative ambient album Refuge, which the duo wrote and recorded separately during the pandemic in 2020. “We’re hoping to create a sense of comfort and coming back to the moment,”Banhart said in a statement. “It’s really important to …
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