As 2017 winds down, Luke Bryan will be winding up with his sixth studio album and spot at the judges’ table on a reboot of American Idol. Bryan shared details about his new album, titled What Makes You Country, earlier today. Produced by Jeff Stevens and Jody Stevens, the 15-track …
Read More »Watch Kesha's Stark Cover of Tom Petty's 'Into the Great Wide Open'
Kesha honored Tom Petty with a stripped-down cover of “Into the Great Wide Open” during her concert in Boston Wednesday. Petty died Monday at the age of 66 after going into cardiac arrest. “I’m not trying to be a downer, but I just think this is one of the most …
Read More »Watch Marty Stuart's Tom Petty Tribute on 'Jools Holland'
Just six months ago, at the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives delivered a harmony-laden acoustic version of “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” a scorching rocker from Tom Petty’s 1989 solo debut LPFull Moon Fever. Following Petty’s death on Monday night, tributes to the influential …
Read More »See Keith Urban Cover Simon and Garfunkel at Vigil for Vegas Victims
Despite a distance of 1,800 miles, the horror of Sunday night’s deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas hit close to home in Nashville. The domestic terror attack claimed the lives of at least 59 country music fans attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival, leaving another 515 wounded at an event …
Read More »Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock: What We Know So Far
At least 59 people were killed and more than 500 were injured in a shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival outside the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas on Sunday night. Authorities have named Stephen Paddock as the prime suspect. He was discovered in his room on the 32nd …
Read More »Hugh Hefner Will Be Buried Next to Marilyn Monroe's Crypt
Hugh Hefner will be buried next to Marilyn Monroe, the Hollywood star whose radiant looks helped launch his publishing career. The Playboy founder, who died Wednesday from natural causes at age 91, purchased the crypt next to Monroe’s at L.A. cemetery Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park for $75,000 in …
Read More »Review: David Bowie's Experimental Berlin Era Explored in 11-CD Box Set
No period in David Bowie‘s career is more curious than the trilogy of albums he recorded in the late Seventies while living in Berlin’s artsy Schöneberg district. They’re defiantly uncommercial, stacking soundtrack-y, atmospheric soundscapes alongside pop songs, and they’re bizarrely endearing – “The hin-ter-land, the hin-ter-land/We’re gonna sail to the …
Read More »Nick Jonas: How Coachella's Rave Tent Inspired New Song 'Find You'
Nick Jonas was at Coachella when he found the inspiration for his latest single “Find You,” a lightly house-inflected new pop song which steers him away from the more R&B leaning style of his last two solo albums. “I was jumping around a bunch of stages, trying to find a …
Read More »Watch Dave Chappelle, Alec Baldwin Read Mean Tweets on 'Kimmel'
Dave Chappelle, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Lawrence and more put on their emotional armor and took on the hate for the latest reading of Mean Tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday. Chappelle read a ferocious burn about his head not fitting his body anymore – “He forgot to exercise that milk …
Read More »Watch Detroit Lions Anthem Singer Take Knee During Performance
With NFL players “taking a knee” Sunday to protest both racial injustice and Donald Trump’s recent comments aimed at the protests, singer Rico LaVelle supported the #TakeAKnee demonstration by kneeling during his performance of the National Anthem before the Detroit Lions game. As Atlanta Falcons and Detroit Lions players on …
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