Now in its 18th year, Louisville, Kentucky’s three-day Forecastle Festival is a mid-sized city fest done right, with a cross-genre slate of national rock, hip-hop and Americana acts, a lovely waterfront setting, a user-friendly layout, and an emphasis on the unpretentious Ohio River city’s dual traditions of bourbon, of course, …
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Dabbling in pop music has long been a country tradition, but with the unforeseen mega success of “Old Town Road” there may be an increase in crossover experimentations. Kane Brown is the next logical Nashville hitmaker to take his shot at pop radio, having already had success with his remix …
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Future has tapped Meek Mill and Doe Boy for a hard-hitting new song, “100 Shooters.” The track boasts production from Tay Keith and Cubeatz, who balance bruising trap precision with synths that carry the low, ominous feel of a brooding organ and a deceptively light flute loop. Future, Meek Mill …
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A few hours after midnight on New Year’s Eve, 29-year-old Tyleek White was shot in a narrow hallway lined with Christmas lights in the Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York, Brooklyn. He was the first person murdered in New York City in 2019. The homicide ended a four-month …
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The first time I ate a pot brownie, I finished the entire thing in one evening. Six hours later, I was lying awake, heart pounding out of my chest, kaleidoscopic patterns twirling before my eyes. I hadn’t realized how different edibles could feel from smoked flower. Nine years later, I …
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Drake retained the top spot on Rolling Stone’s Artists 500 chart with an impressive 110.8 million song streams, while Chris Brown leapt to Number Two with 110.6 million song streams for the week of June 28th through July 4th. Both artists were propelled to the top thanks to their recent …
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Hip-hop festival Rolling Loud has added two new cities to its multi-city lineup. The fest will make its New York City debut at Citi Field on October 12th and 13th and in Hong Kong in on October 19th and 20th at West Kowloon Park. The festival also premiered in Sydney, …
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Disney Channel actor Cameron Boyce, who co-starred in the network’s Descendants films and the TV series Jessie, died Saturday at the age of 20. Boyce “passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated,” a …
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Kanye West and Charlie Wilson‘s new song “Brothers” has been unveiled. A portion of the affirming song was featured during the Season Two premiere of Irv Gotti‘s BET series, Tales, which aired on Tuesday. On Wednesday night, Irv Gotti unveiled the full song via his Instagram account. In the Instagram …
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In the latest installment of our “First Time” video series, actress Beanie Feldstein, star of Booksmart and the “Breakout” talent of Rolling Stone‘s 2019 Hot List, looks back on her childhood obsession with the Spice Girls (“Spice World was on repeat in my house”), her first big role (Peter Rabbit …
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