According to producer Johnny Jewel, “Music is medicine.” Or at least that’s what the sparse statement that came with the band’s surprise release says. On Tuesday at midnight, Chromatics unveiled Closer to Grey, the follow-up to 2012’s much-anticipated Kill for Love. Closer to Grey comes after seven years of delayed …
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Kelly Clarkson performed a dynamic version of Lizzo‘s hit single “Juice” on her daytime talk show The Kelly Clarkson Show.In a segment titled “Kellyoke,” Clarkson was joined by a live band and a back-up singer for the performance as her audience danced and clapped. Clarkson has also recently covered several …
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For its seventh year, musicians and activists came together for the Global Citizen Festival in New York City’s Central Park in an effort to end poverty by 2030 and combat climate change. This year’s five-hour festival featured a lineup of Queen + Adam Lambert, Alicia Keys, Pharrell Williams and OneRepublic, …
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BoJack Horseman won’t be horsin’ around for much longer. Netflix has unveiled the trailer for the sixth and final season of its beloved animated dramedy, starring a washed-up sitcom star who learns to become a better animal in an anthropomorphized, exaggerated version of Los Angeles’ entertainment scene. The last we …
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In preparation for the 20th Annual Latin Grammys in November, the Latin Recording Academy released its list of nominees on Tuesday morning. Although Academy President/CEO Gabriel Abaroa Jr. boasted a “talented and diverse” representation of acts from across Latin America and the Iberian peninsula, the actual shortlist stated otherwise: the …
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Lynyrd Skynyrd will document the hometown date from their “farewell tour” with a one-night-only concert film screening on November 7th. Shaun Silva directed the project, which includes band interviews and footage from the Southern rock act’s 2018 show at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. Fathom Events will bring the …
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Gary Clark Jr. dropped a new music video on Friday for his song “Pearl Cadillac,” from his latest studio album This Land. Directed by Clément Oberto and shot on 35mm film stock, the clip has a film noir feel, with a Cadillac Deville, deserted highways, glamorous hotel lobbies and smoky bars. …
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The Grammy Museum Mississippi will present country music great Charley Pride with the inaugural Crossroads of American Music Award in November. The Sledge, Mississippi, native will head to the small Delta town of Cleveland in his home state to receive the honor on November 1st. Presented to an artist “who …
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In conversation, Ketch Secor, the Old Crow Medicine Show frontman and fiddler, is always ducking down the backroads and side alleys of American musical history. And it’s impossible to not tag along. Credit his old-soul personality and charisma, but especially his encyclopedic knowledge of country music, which makes him a …
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Tanya Tucker‘s new album While I’m Livin’ was a triumphant return for the living country legend, whose last studio album came way back in 2003. Tucker joined fellow outlaw artist Elizabeth Cook at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Friday for a special AmericanaFest interview and performance, …
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