With so much great music coming out all the time, it can be hard to figure out what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a preview of major new releases available on streaming services. This week’s bundle includes new albums from Popcaan, Meg Baird, Lil Yachty, Mark William Lewis, Ruhail Qaisar, Popstar Benny, … Read more
Some 200 leading Israeli musicians have signed a petition against government plans to shut down the public broadcasting authority, promising “to fight to preserve democracy”. The performers – including stars like Shlomo Artzi, Shalom Hanoch, Rita, Ninet Tayeb and Ehud Banai – join hundreds of leading actors, directors and writers who protested Kan’s planned shutdown … Read more
By TRAVIS LOLLER January 26, 2023 GMT https://apnews.com/article/grammys-roots-gospel-hbcu-80c764f9ae5296d73ddec80e86ff84df NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Like many great projects, the idea of a Grammy nominee The album “The Urban Hymnal” was first sketched on a restaurant paper napkin. Gospel songwriter and producer Sir the Baptist had come to Nashville in October 2021 to hear Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat … Read more
Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin. Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock Keep the spark alive! Miranda Lambert commemorated her wedding anniversary by sharing shirtless snaps of her hubby, Brendan McLoughlin. “Celebrating 4 years of marriage today with my main squeeze @brendanjmcloughlin 💍💕 Happy birthday baby! You are the best. (You are all welcome for the last two pics) … Read more
Angela Yee may not deliver her ‘Rumor Report,’ but Noreaga was spreading gossip about The breakfast club. The Drink champions the host visited his friends for an intimate chat, and during the interview, Drake, Future, and 21 Savage were mentioned. It seemed that Charlamagne Tha God was aware that Nore was being exploited in behind-the-scenes … Read more
Three shows from Pantera’s upcoming reunion tour were canceled this week, reportedly due to a 2016 incident in which frontman Phil Anselmo gave a Nazi salute and shouted ‘white power’ during a concert . As Consequence reports, the revered Texas metal band, which hasn’t toured in over 20 years, was dropped from the lineup at … Read more
When Japanese musician/songwriter/producer Yoshiki founded seminal glam-metal band X Japan in 1982, pounding drums with kabuki face paint, peroxide blonde rooster hair and beaded lace ballgowns – a look that he says could “stop traffic”. ” – he was ahead of his time in many ways. “It was pretty controversial, I guess, at the time,” … Read more
Left: Rick Astley (Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images), right: Yung Gravy (Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Pizza Hut) We can now add “legal proceedings against the ascendants SoundCloud rapper Yung Gravy” on the list of things Rick Astley won’t be giving up anytime soon, right next to “you,and also (according to a few minutes of research … Read more
UNITED NATIONS — Gene Simmons, the bassist and co-vocalist of iconic rock band Kiss, called for broadening identification with the Holocaust beyond the Jewish community during a genocide commemoration event Thursday at the United Nations. Simmons’ mother survived Nazi death camps as a teenager, then moved to Israel after the war. Born Chaim Weitz in … Read more
It’s awards season, so I’d like to nominate Sam Smith for Best Celebrity Cameo of 2022 in a Magazine Profile. The post was New York magazine; the subject was Joel Kim Booster, the writer and star of last year’s soft-hearted show Pride and Prejudice to return to Fire Island. Booster and his friends are returning … Read more
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