Frank Zappa‘s seminal live double album Zappa in New York will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an extensive reissue that includes over three hours of previously unreleased performances. The five-disc set will arrive March 29th via Zappa Records and Universal Music. The original set was recorded during Zappa’s four-night run …
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Puerto Rican reggaeton star Ozuna confirmed in a press statement on Wednesday that he had fallen victim to a blackmail scheme, involving an explicit video filmed of the singer when he was 16 years old. “Our attorney confirmed yesterday that urban artist Ozuna was extorted through an intimate video filmed …
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Brothers Osborne made their debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, performing the smoldering “I Don’t Remember Me (Before You).” The song appears on the CMA-winning duo’s 2018 album Port Saint Joe. Like much of their work — and on Port Saint Joe in particular — “I Don’t …
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Loretta Lynn will be presented with a special honor at the 2019 Nashville Songwriter Awards, set for September 17th at the Ryman Auditorium. The event is hosted by Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI). Country Music Hall of Fame member Lynn, who will also be celebrated by peers and artists she …
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Fifty-seven-year-old screenwriter and West Wing creatorAaron Sorkin is telling the Democratic party to “stop acting like young people” and grow up while also lauding the fact that young people are being elected. “I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to Congress. They now need …
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Now that RCA has dropped R&B singer R. Kelly, who has faced decades of allegations of sexual misconduct, the activists who have petitioned the labels to drop him are calling it a victory. In the summer of 2017, around the time that Buzzfeed News reported that the R&B singer was …
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Bluegrass titan and longtime Grand Ole Opry member Del McCoury, who turns 80 years old next month, will be celebrated with a special Opry tribute featuring fellow musicians Sam Bush, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart and the Travelin’ McCourys. Set for February 13th, the Wednesday night event, dubbed “Grand …
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As the morning rush gained momentum at a Gregorys Coffee outlet in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, a small group of activists and organizers gathered to prepare for the day’s work. They discussed strategy, stacked flyers and assembled cardboard boxes. On each box, they taped a sign that read, “RCA Records: …
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Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán paid a $100 million bribe to former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, according to trial testimony provided on Tuesday by Alex Cifuentes Villa, The New York Times reports.Cifuentes,a Colombian drug trafficker, worked with Guzmán for multiple years. This is not the first time during Guzmán’s ongoing …
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Jay-Z’s music-streaming service Tidal, which was the subject of a major report offraudulent streaming numbers for Beyoncé and Kanye West albums last year, is under investigation from Norwegian authorities, according toDagens Næringsliv, the newspaper that published the original claims. Last May,Dagens Næringslivalleged, off of internal data it acquired from an …
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