Southern-rock quintet Blackberry Smoke deliver a blistering reminder that everyone wants what they don’t have – with the added caveat that maybe, good things come to those who wait – in their newly released song “Best Seat in the House.” Described by lead singer Charlie Starr as a sort of …
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UPDATE: Nick Cave has released a trailer for Distant Sky that shows just how vibrant the Copenhagen show was. In it, he reaches into the crowd to hold hands with the front row, he kicks the air as he sings and he stretches out his arm like a preacher, all …
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Camila Cabello will embark on her first solo trek this spring. The former Fifth Harmony singer’s Never Be the Same Tour is named for the opening track on herchart-topping debut,Camila. The 16-date tour opens April 9th at Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre and moves eastward, hitting theater-sized venues across North America before …
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James Hetfield will make his big-screen acting debut in the upcoming Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron as the infamous serial killer. The Metallica singer will portray Officer Bob Hayward, “a no-nonsense Utah highway patrol veteran who was the first law enforcement officer to …
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Kevin Smith, the Bronx DJ and rapper known as Lovebug Starski who is often credited with coining the term “hip-hop,” died Thursday at 57 following a heart attack in Las Vegas. His daughter, Tiffany Williams, confirmed Smith’s death to Rolling Stone. Smith was among a core group of DJ pioneers, …
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In January, Rolling Stone Country published an in-depth report about an endemic culture of sexual harassment and misconduct in the world of country radio, including incidents at events and annual conventions such as Country Radio Seminar, known as CRS. The organizers of CRS, which is happening in Nashville this week, …
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Lil Uzi Vert made his late-night debut on Monday, performing his emo-rap ballad “The Way Life Goes” on The Late Show. Lil Uzi Vert is famous for his hectic, daredevil live performances.Last May, he dove into a festival crowd from an estimated height of 20 feet above the ground. But …
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The night before Dave Matthews Band perform at a pre-Super Bowl show in Minneapolis, the group’s longtime violinist Boyd Tinsley announced he is taking “a break” from the band and touring. “I need to take a break from the band & touring 2 focus on my family & my health …
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In a revealing aside from Stephen King’s novel It, the bartender Ricky Lee remembers a washed-up “rumdum” who stumbles into his dive, gives a woman a roll of quarters for the jukebox and spends the night drunkenly singing along to the music of the country singer Moe Bandy. He then …
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Gwen Sebastian‘s latest album Once Upon a Time in the West: Act 1 opens with the dramatic flourishes of the title track: a vaguely Latin, minor-key progression and eerie spirals of pedal steel adorn a story of two ride-or-die lovers on the run that concludes with the cinematic instructions “Fade …
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