A John Lennon-owned copy of the Beatles‘ infamous “butcher cover” version of Yesterday and Today, autographed by three members of the Fab Four, sold for $234,000 at a Beatles-themed auction this week. The vinyl copy – autographed by Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and featuring a back cover sketch …
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Halfway through her star-studded 80th-birthday concert at New York’s Apollo Theater, Mavis Staples paused her half-century-plus–spanning set to take in her adoring crowd. “I’m too excited to talk!” she cried out from the Apollo stage, 63 years after first appearing at the theater as a teenager with her family band, …
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Skip Marley, grandson of Bob Marley, cruises through Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood in the reggae artist’s low-key video for “That’s Not True,” his collaborative track with his uncle Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley. Director Andrew Sandler follows Skip as he views friends and locals: barbers cutting hair, people playing dice and …
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Chris Gantry casts an eye back on a hardscrabble utopia in his reverent new ballad “Life Well Lived,” the first track to be debuted from his newly announced LP Nashlantis. The veteran songwriter, who penned the Glen Campbell hit “Dreams of the Everyday Housewife,” returns with Nashlantis on July 26th, …
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Madonna received the GLAAD Media Awards‘ Advocate for Change award Saturday night at Manhattan’s Hilton Midtown, where the singer delivered an emotional speech that was among the ceremony’s highlights. “The first gay man I ever met was named Christopher Flynn,” the 60-year-old entertainer and longtime advocate for gay rights said. …
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Khalid delivered a double shot of songs from his new album, Free Spirit, performing “Talk” and “Better” at the Billboard Music Awards Wednesday. Khalid opened with “Talk,” floating through the track with impeccable ease, and even tossing in a few new vocal runs while a troupe of back-up dancers moved …
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New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain revealed that he has been battling cancer for the past year and has launched a GoFundMe to help pay for an upcoming surgery and recovery. Sylvain didn’t offer many details about the cancer, but said he hoped his upcoming surgery would “do the trick.” …
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Steely Dan will perform their classic albums in their entirety during a fall tour that features extended residencies in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The trek itself begins August 27th in Youngstown, Ohio and continues on for 11 more shows before Steely Dan land at New York’s Beacon Theater for …
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Ever since Ariana Grande nearly reunited ‘NSync at Coachella, rumors that the beloved boy band are on the verge of a Timberlake-free reunion have inundated the internet. “The world of pop needs this to happen,” proclaimed Nick Carter — a statement no one thought the Backstreet Boy would utter in …
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Ahead of the release of his debut album Sudden Opera in June, Georgia singer-songwriter Pony Bradshaw delivers a haunting performance of the song “Bad Teeth.” A track off the upcoming LP, its lyrics showcase the darker side of Bradshaw’s psyche, one formed by years of traveling the U.S. as the …
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