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Swifties, rejoice. Taylor Swift announced early Thursday that she will be dropping her eighth studio album, “Folklore,” at midnight. Swift, 30, described the album as “songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into.” In a statement posted to Twitter, the “Lover” singer added that she wrote the album “in isolation,” and …
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Joan f–king Baez! Lana Del Rey has shared what she says is folk legend Joan Baez’s portrait of her, along with Baez’s self-portrait and a painting she did of her mother. Del Rey, 35, and Baez, 79, have some degree of history together. The younger singer brought out Baez for a duet on the latter’s …
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Annie Ross, an internationally acclaimed jazz singer and actress, died Tuesday of emphysema and heart disease. She was 89. Born Annabelle Allan Short on July 25, 1930, in London, Ross was the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians, and already had experience singing, acting and with life on the road by age 4, when her family moved …
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Universal Music Group and music streaming giant Spotify inked a multiyear global licensing pact on Wednesday. The deal will allow Universal — the world’s largest record label which reps the likes of Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Drake and Kanye West — to promote its artists on Spotify’s platform and be an early adapter of the …
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TikTok isn’t all trash. A Tennessee teen redefined multitasking after playing the piano while solving a Rubik’s Cube at the same time, as seen in this viral TikTok video with nearly 90,000 views and more than 23,000 likes. “This took me forever to time right,” said 18-year-old Jimmy Liu, a self-proclaimed 11-year piano veteran who’s …
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Music executive Steve Stoute thinks that If Drake goes independent, the music business is over. Stoute spoke with rapper Russ at SelectCon about whether artists should sign with labels. Of Drake — signed to Cash Money via Universal’s Republic Records — Russ said, “If Drake posts a picture on the ’Gram of his new album …
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Lollapalooza creator Perry Farrell is putting out a box set called “The Glitz; The Glamour.” The release will give fans a look at his career outside of Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros, including tunes from his early band, Psi Com, through his most recent album, “Kind Heaven,” with remixes and rarities. The $300 set …
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You may have spent your quarantine dreaming of attending that concert the ongoing pandemic ultimately canceled. And you may have hoped, really hoped, that the venue would reschedule the event for sometime this year. Well, according to a Lollapalooza co-founder, don’t hold your breath. Making an appearance on Bob Lefsetz’s podcast this week, Marc Geiger …
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In a long-distant era of discord suspiciously similar to our own, Natalie Maines, the singer for the group that was, until last month, known as the Dixie Chicks, lit a forest fire with an offhand insult about George W. Bush in 2003. Since then, she’s owned her political words more deliberately by laying into Donald …
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Machine Gun Kelly has a passion for podiatry. While discussing some of his past music videos, 30-year-old Kelly admitted that the one for “Bloody Valentine” has become his favorite because of his co-star, girlfriend Megan Fox, and her feet. “I said ‘Sail’ was my favorite music video, but for other more personal reasons ‘Bloody Valentine’ …
Swifties, rejoice. Taylor Swift announced early Thursday that she will be dropping her eighth studio album, “Folklore,” at midnight. Swift, 30, described the album as “songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into.” In a statement posted to Twitter, the “Lover” singer added that she wrote the album “in isolation,” and …
