Engaging with one’s audience is a golden rule of marketing — and R&B star 6lack is doing that in droves with his new EP 6pc Hot, which drops on Friday and aims to promote open dialogue around race and community. The set is coming with an eclectic all-out marketing campaign …
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Fantastic Negrito has teamed up with Tarriona “Tank” Ball of Tank and the Bangas for a new single and music video, “I’m So Happy I Cry,” off of his upcoming albumHave You Lost Your Mind Yet? “I was really inspired to write ‘I’m So Happy I Cry’ the day after …
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A U.S. Army private is accused of planning a violent attack on his own unit with the Order of the Nine Angles — a neo-Nazi satanic group based in the U.K., sometimes called the O9A or ONA — according to a grand-jury indictment unsealed Monday. Ethan Melzer, a 22-year-old soldier …
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Bobbie Nelson will document her time playing in her sibling Willie Nelson‘s band for 47 years in the upcoming Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band, a co-written memoir with her younger brother Willie. The book, a collaboration with music biographer David Ritz, will tell the story …
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Beyoncé dropped her surprise new song “Black Parade” on Juneteenth, hours after the singer announced a new initiative of the same name to support black-owned businesses. “Happy Juneteenth Weekend! I hope we continue to share joy and celebrate each other, even in the midst of struggle. Please continue to remember …
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Washington, D.C. dance music trio Too Free — Awad Bilal, Carson Cox, and Don Godwin — are Rolling Stone‘s latest Artist You Need to Know. In a new video for the series, the group brings us inside their D.C. homes, their studio, and Bilal’s grandmother’s house, to give us a …
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Australian comedian, actor, television show creator, and showrunner Josh Thomas tells Rolling Stone that he wasn’t trying to fit into “the queer media landscape” when he came up with his semi-autobiographical series Please Like Me, in which he also stars. “I was really surprised when I made Please Like Me …
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J. Cole has released his first song of 2020. On the introspective track, “Snow on Tha Bluff,” the rapper discusses the current discourse around the Black Lives Matter movement, particularly on social media. On the free-flowing song, he opens by addressing a social media thread made by someone who’s “mad …
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The Killers burned through a stripped-back version of their recent song “Caution” on Monday’s Ellen. The quartet, whom Ellen DeGeneres introduced as “one of [her] favorite bands,” played the song remotely. Frontman Brandon Flowers alternated between piano and synthesizer, soaring to the high register of his voice on the pre-chorus. …
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Hannibal Buress has announced plans to premiere his new standup special on YouTube in July. Dubbed Miami Nights, the special will focus on Buress’ arrest during the 2017 Art Basel Miami; bodycam footage from that arrest — where Buress yells “This cop is stupid as fuck” into the camera — …
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