Cardi B has rejected claims that she is asking for $1 million in order to perform at the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show, although a rep for Cardi B suggested that the rapper would likely skip the Maroon 5-led performance in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. Page Six reported that Cardi …
Read More »Watch Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson Give 'Santa Baby' Feminist Update
Miley Cyrus gave holiday classic “Santa Baby” a much-needed update for 2018 on The Tonight Show with the help of Mark Ronson and Jimmy Fallon. “I think I might need to change a few of these lyrics,” Cyrus told Fallon ahead of the performance. “Are you cool with that?” When …
Read More »'Vox Lux' Soundtrack Is Fading Glitter Over Pop Pessimism
Pop, and the particular plight of a female pop star, has proven itself to be prime fodder for Oscar-bait feature films this awards season. First,A Star Is Borntold a musical love story, set to music written by its star Lady Gaga. Soon, we’ll haveTeen Spirit, where Elle Fanning will become …
Read More »Ronnie Milsap Announces 2019 76 for 76 Tour
With his 76th birthday and the release of a brand-new album of duets just one month away, tireless entertainer Ronnie Milsap plans to spend plenty of time in the new year where he’s right at home — on the concert stage. The Country Music Hall of Fame legend, whose pop-country …
Read More »Rush's Geddy Lee Talks Massive Bass Book, Meeting John Paul Jones
“I have to get back to my day job sooner rather than later,” Geddy Lee says with an exhausted laugh. While Rush played what could be their farewell show in August 2015, the frontman has never been busier. He’s spent the past seven years collecting hundreds of vintage bass guitars …
Read More »The Zombies on Overdue Rock Hall Induction: 'This Is a Life-Defining Moment'
Few bands that have entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have had to wait quite as long as the Zombies.The British Invasion group — best known for their hits “She’s Not There” and “Time of the Season” — have been eligible for induction since 1989, but they didn’t …
Read More »Flashback: Band Aid Raises Millions With 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'
The age of the celebrity supergroup charity single truly began in October 1984, when Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof watched in horror as footage of the worsening Ethiopian famine played across his television screen as part of a BBC News documentary. He was still haunted by the images a week …
Read More »Rascal Flatts Release 'Jukebox' EP, Cover Hall and Oates' 'You Make My Dreams'
Rascal Flatts deliver a pre-Christmas surprise for fans in the form of a new EP available today. Titled Jukebox, the four-song release re-imagines some of the trio’s favorite songs, originally performed by classic pop-rock acts Foreigner, Hall & Oates, Kenny Loggins, and Huey Lewis and the News. Inspired by a …
Read More »Hear Sibling Duo the Cactus Blossoms' New Song 'Please Don't Call Me Crazy'
“Did someone call you crazy once, Jack?” asks the Cactus Blossoms‘ Page Burkum, calling from his hometown of Minneapolis with his brother and band mate Jack Torrey also on the line. Burkum is referring to the duo’s newest track, “Please Don’t Call Me Crazy,” the first sampling from their sophomore …
Read More »Review: Jeff Tweedy Plunges Into His Fears on 'Warm'
“Just because I can’t describe it,” Jeff Tweedy sings halfway through Warm, “doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try.” On his first formal solo album of new songs (and second non-Wilco project in the last few years), Tweedy — never one to take a year off from songwriting — plunges far into …
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