The R&B singer H.E.R. has never cracked the Top 25 on Billboard‘s Hot Hip-Hop/R&B Songs chart. But when she releases her debut album this fall, she can rest assured that plenty of listeners will be interested: She has already amassed more than a billion streams across various digital platforms. H.E.R.’s …
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WASHINGTON — As part of its efforts to combat forms of foreign election interference like that seen in 2016, the FBI in August launched a project called Protected Voices to help political candidates and consultants defend against the next wave of cyberattacks on U.S. soil. Now, just three weeks before …
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Beach Boys singer Mike Love was at the White House to watch Donald Trump sign the Music Modernization Act into law, and when he stepped up to the podium he went way off topic to heap praise onto the president for his supposed effort to help Whitney Houston in her …
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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. . .which may be why George Strait isn’t ready to pull the plug on his Strait to Vegas residency anytime soon. Launched in 2016, the King of Country’s run of sold-out shows in Sin City just got a renewal. Strait, who will play …
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Ciara recruited Missy Elliott for an intense live version of her“Level Up” remixat the 2018 American Music Awards. The performance marked the R&B singer’s first at the ceremony since 2005. The vocalist opened the song with some belting and slick choreography, accompanied by dancers decked out in futuristic-looking sunglasses. Elliott …
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Lady Gaga unveiled an endearing new video for her soulful song from A Star Is Born, “Look What I Found.” The clip opens with a shot from the movie, in which Gaga’s character Ally tosses out the rough idea for “Look What I Found” while eating at a diner with …
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A few nights before Will Hoge left for tour, he got out the iron and some letter decals, and started pressing T-shirts. “One of them said ‘Nikes Over Nazis,’” he tells Rolling Stone, sitting at an East Nashville sandwich shop a few hours before his bus is supposed to hit …
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The rumors came true in the final hour of Cal Jam on Saturday: Dave Grohl, back behind the drum kit, closed the second year of his annual rock festival with a six-song Nirvana reunion, including survivors Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear, briefly reviving the classic grunge sound and attitude of …
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Maxwell released “Shame,” which he described as “a modern love song,” on Friday. On his latest track, the veteran R&B singer croons about romance in the social media age — misunderstandings about Instagram comments and similar sources of angst for any plugged-in couple. “Social media has created an alternate world …
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Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the National, TV on the Radio and more have created custom Tidal playlists of their favorite Velvet Underground songs for The Velvet Underground Experience, a multimedia exhibition on the band coming to New York that has officially partnered with Tidal. The music …
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