Two prominent Dallas radio stations publicly announced that they will no longer support R. Kelly‘s music on Monday. The decision from K104, which plays a mixture of contemporary hip-hop and R&B, and KRNB, which plays R&B reaching back to the Nineties, came in the wake of the six-part docuseries Surviving …
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Metallica played a twangy country arrangement of “The Four Horsemen” on acoustic instruments at a special gig for charity late last year. In the just-released clip of the performance, James Hetfield amped up the grit in his voice as he sang, “Choose your fate and die,” while Kirk Hammett used …
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On Friday, President Donald Trump signaled that the shutdown of the federal government could last“months or even years.” If that happens, the people who stand to lose the most are America’s poorest families who rely on government assistance to get by. Food stamps are one such program that is currently …
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With his booming Southern baritone and a sonic presence that often skews toward the conservative end of the spectrum, Chris Young has never been shy about his traditional country influence. But in a new single titled “Raised on Country,” the Tennessee native spells it out in plain English. Name-checking Merle …
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One of R. Kelly‘s alleged survivors details how the singer used manipulation and domination to mold her in this exclusive clip from the upcoming Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. “Pretty early on he kind of introduced you to everything he was into. I was instructed to call him ‘Daddy’ during …
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Ray Sawyer, the Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show member who sang the 1973 Shel Silverstein-penned hit “The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone,’” has died at the age of 81. Page Six first reported Friday that Sawyer died in Daytona Beach, Florida following a brief illness; a representative for the band …
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Vince Staples will embark on a headlining North American tour next year. The “Smile, You’re On Camera” trek will kick off February 1st at the Rialto in Tuscon, Arizona. Staples will hit 37 cities over the next two months before the trek wraps April 3rd at the Fox Theater in …
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On Sunday afternoon, right when the folks of Asheville, North Carolina, had either finished shoveling more than a foot of snow that had fallen overnight or were simply hungover from a weekend spent at Warren Haynes’ 30th Christmas Jam, the Gov’t Mule frontman and Dave Grohl, who performed his hard-rock …
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James Alex Fields Jr., the white supremacist who killed Heather Heyer when he rammed his car through a crowd of counterprotesters during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was convicted of first-degree murder Friday. Fields was also found guilty on eight counts of malicious wounding stemming from the …
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Queens of the Stone Age will share their version of two Christmas classics on a new limited-edition seven-inch single. The A-side of the record will find QOTSA mastermind Josh Homme partnering with Australian blues musician C.W. Stoneking for a rendition of “Silent Night.” The B-side, meanwhile, will boast a reading …
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