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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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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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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Anyone still thinking of Will.i.am as just a hitmaking producer-rapper is decidedly 2000-and-late, at least as far as Silicon Valley is concerned. Though his Puls smartwatch was far from a success back in 2015, he’s still taken seriously by venture capitalists, who have reportedly provided more than $100 million in …
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