Earlier this month, Waxahatchee‘s Katie Crutchfield joinedRolling Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield for a live conversation as part of Rolling Stone‘sRS Styled New York Fashion Week event. During the wide-ranging half-hour conversation, Crutchfield shared an in-depth chronology and personal history of her various bands (Waxahatchee, PS Eliot, The Ackleys, Bad …
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This song was bizarrely thought to be controversial in the wake of the police murder of Amadou Diallo in 1999. Bruce played it once in a show in Atlanta, and then it got this huge reaction in the New York press. One of the themes in the song was, sometimes when you’re …
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“At each stage in his remarkable career, he’s been the first. He’s been somebody who’s walked through that door before everybody else has. That’s given people behind him enormous confidence. And he’s done it with grace.” Those are the words President Obama uses to describe the writer-producer-arranger-composer Quincy Jones near …
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Kiss are kissing the road goodbye once again, but not before embarking on one more tour. The rockers announced their final trek after a 45-year career during their appearance on NBC’s America’s Got Talent on Wednesday. The group performed their hit “Detroit Rock City” to launch AGT‘s season finale episode …
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French Montana and Drake share an apparent mutual disdain for fashion. On Thursday, September 20, the duo dropped the spiritual successor to “No Shopping” with the London On Da Track-produced “No Stylist.” The song features hallmarks of their previous collaborations — materialistic raps, braggadocious bars about faceless women and veiled …
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A former Spotify sales exec filed a lawsuit against the company Monday, accusing the streaming service of gender discrimination and equal pay violation. In the lawsuit, filed at the Supreme Court of New York, former Spotify employee Hong Perez claimed that the company’s sales team, led by Head of U.S. …
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Ciara recruited marching band percussion and brass for her vibrant new single “Dose.” The song plays like a motivational speech aimed at listeners and the vocalist herself.“I’m a groundbreaking woman/ I get loud when I wanna/ Put me down, I’ll go harder,” she sings over brass blasts and rattling snares. …
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The city of Pittsburgh gathered on Tuesday, September 11, to remember Mac Miller at the place he shined a national light on, Frick Park. The 26-year-old rapper died Friday, September 7, at his Los Angeles home of an apparent overdose. Four days later, thousands of people gathered to pay their …
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The family of Aretha Franklin denounced Rev. Jasper Williams Jr.’s eulogy at the late singer’s funeral as “offensive and distasteful.” Williams Jr. delivered a nearly 50-minute eulogy at Franklin’s service last Friday, causing an uproar on social media with comments about the Black Lives Matter movement, black-on-black crime and the …
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Alice in Chains enlisted the Doors guitarist Robby Krieger for a special performance of the grunge band’s classic “Rooster” during their concert Wednesday at the Palladium in Los Angeles, California. Krieger added bluesy, atmospheric fills to the Dirt song, countering Jerry Cantrell‘s wild wah-wah leads. The psych-rock veteran visibly smiled …
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