Just a year ago, Big Scarr was seeing a few thousand on-demand audio streams per month. Now, after the Memphis rapper signed to Gucci Mane’s 1017 label and dropped his debut album, Big Grim Reaper, that number has ballooned to tens of millions per week. Big Scarr rises to Number …
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The year 2020 will be a stain on the memories of most Australian artists. Closed borders and closed venues meant tour and album-release plans were either revised or brought to a halt, and revenue streams (not to mention fans) suffered accordingly. For Australian sibling duo Lime Cordiale, though, the pandemic …
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The Weeknd said he still plans to boycott the Grammys after the Recording Academy announced it would get rid of the “secret committees” that, for years, finalized the nominees for major categories. The Recording Academy announced its rule change Friday, April 30th, saying the categories decided by the “Nominations Review …
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Millennials have it rough. We’re underemployed. We’re overworked. We constantly have to live with the specter of betrayal from our generational heroes: JK Rowling’s conversion to TERFdom, for instance, or the realization that Barack Obama was not nearly as cool as we thought. We can’t replicate Jules’s eye makeup from …
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Two months after Lady Gaga‘s dog walker was shot and her two French bulldogs were stolen, five people have been arrested, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office confirmed to Rolling Stone. Three suspects — James Jackson, 18; Jaylin White, 19; and Lafayette Whaley, 27 — were charged with one …
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In an effort to fight climate change, the Senate voted to reinstate 2016 regulations on methane emissions, reversing a Trump administration move to ease rules meant to cut emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas. The act passed by a 52-42 margin, with Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham and Rob Portman being …
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When Miranda Lambert walked offstage at Denver’s Pepsi Center on March 2nd, 2020, it marked the last time she would perform in front of paying fans for more than a year. That dry spell came to an end last week when Lambert played her first three of five scheduled indoor …
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The copyright bonanza in the music business continues. On Monday morning, Concord Music Publishing announced the purchase of Downtown Music Holdings’ entire portfolio of 145,000 owned and co-published music copyrights. Here are just some of the stars with songs included in the deal: Adele, Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, Blake Shelton, Bruno …
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Ben Platt is back with a new single, “Imagine.” The mid-tempo pop track, which is both tender and confident, serves as a tribute to everyday saviors — the people who lift others up in times of darkness. Its just-released music video, on the other hand, is quite literally uplifting. The …
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A little over one year ago, the nation’s top public health official Dr. Anthony Fauci, correctly stated “I mean that’s totally way out,” when asked about recent comments from Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson. Today, we are sad to report, the doctor is still correct. During a Thursday interview with …
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