Snoop Dogg gets dark and doomy on “Murder Music,” featuring Benny the Butcher, Jadakiss, and Busta Rhymes. The song is off Snoop’s latest, Snoop Dogg Presents the Algorithm, out Nov. 19. The track starts out with a creepy, horror movie-esque beat, with Benny the Butcher delivering the first verse: “Yo, …
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Angela Bassett celebrated the life and musical achievements of Tina Turner with an electrifying speech to induct the legendary artist into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday, Oct. 30. While Turner was previously inducted into the Rock Hall alongside Ike Turner, Bassett stressed Turner’s worthy induction as …
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Monsta X have announced their upcoming English-language album: The Dreaming arrives on December 10th via Intertwine (BMG) in collaboration with Starship Entertainment. Preorders launch on Friday. The 10-song set includes the previously released single “One Day,” which arrived last month alongside its video. The Dreaming marks Monsta X’s second all-English …
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Ronnie Tutt, drummer and original member of Elvis Presley’s TCB Band and the Jerry Garcia Band and a famed session musician who performed alongside Billy Joel, Buckingham Nicks and more, has died at the age of 83. Elvis Presley Enterprises announced Tutt’s death Saturday, writing on the Graceland website, “All …
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Norah Jones has released a new version of the Chipmunks’ holiday favorite “Christmas Don’t Be Late.” The track, produced by Leon Michels, is a bluesy number complete with horns and sultry vocals. The cover comes off Jones’ new album, I Dream of Christmas, out this week via Blue Note Records. …
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Coldplay invited Ed Sheeran onstage during their performance at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire last night. Sheeran collaborated with the group on a rendition of “Fix You,” from Coldplay’s album X&Y. The band also accompanied Sheeran as he played his own tracks, “Shape Of You” and recent single “Shivers.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY3o2r_3AJM Coldplay …
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The pointed placement of a billboard for Meek Mill’s new album, Expensive Pain, on the facade of the Miami Juvenile Assessment Center — a “processing referral and evaluation center” for arrested youth — was intentional. The billboard has been up for several weeks now, with a reporter from Miami’s WLRN …
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Dave Chappelle waded into the never-ending DaBaby controversy in his new stand-up special, The Closer, wondering why the rapper’s career was supposedly derailed for homophobic remarks instead of fatally shooting a man in 2018. Chappelle — who has garnered criticism of his own for various jokes about queer and trans …
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Drake managed to fend off yet another challenge to his Artists 500 throne, notching a record-extending 35th week atop the chart. Drake pulled in 274.5 million song streams for the week of September 24th through September 30th, the 14th highest weekly stream count the chart has ever seen. His closest …
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The Rolling Stones have dropped their previously unreleased cover of the Chi-Lites’ “Troubles a’ Comin” via Polydor/Interscope/UMe. The song will appear on the 40th-anniversary sets for Tattoo You, which arrive on October 22nd. The band recorded the song in Paris in 1979, and it’s one of nine of the rarities …
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