Boy George and Culture Club staged a candle-lit performance of their recent gospel-pop single “Life” on Wednesday’s Ellen. The frontman belted the tune in a wide vibrato over palm-muted guitar stabs, smooth backing vocals and a laid-back rhythm section. “Will you let me breathe now while I find my truth?/ …
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My Morning Jacket’s Jim James will embark on a North American tour this spring in support of his latest solo album, Uniform Distortion. The trek kicks off May 1st at Charleston Music Hall in Charleston, South Carolina and includes stops in cities like Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis, Washington D.C. and …
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Little more than a month after opening for Florida Georgia Line and Chris Lane this past December, Mason Ramsey has announced his first-ever headlining U.S. tour this Spring, kicking off March 22nd in Tuscaloosa. Ramsey’s 11-date trek, dubbed the How’s Your Girl & How’s Your Family Tour,will take the preteen …
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The idea started with a brush fire, but before long it took on a life of its own. Two lives, in fact: Coal and Flynt Stryker, a pair of mysterious siblings who died in a prison fire, leaving behind a batch of long-lost country recordings. Except that they didn’t. Cole …
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British girl group Little Mix released a new version of their LM5 track “Think About Us” with Ty Dolla $ign. The original cut comes from their fifth studio album, released last November. A booming, dance-y power ballad, “Think About Us,” has the group wondering about whether a partner is as invested in …
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Dua Lipa powers through an uncertain future in her cinematic new song “Swan Song,” featured in Robert Rodriguez’s new cyberpunk action film, Alita: Battle Angel. The James Cameron-produced movie hits theaters on February 14th. “I can’t lie — I’m scared to open my eyes/’Cause what if I find nothing at …
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Drax Project have teamed with singer and actress Hailee Steinfeld for the band’s poppy new single “Woke Up Late,” which arrived Monday on digital streaming services. The New Zealand quartet, who has opened for artists like Lorde and Camila Cabello, also dropped the lyric video for their latest single. “‘Woke …
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Reggie Young, whose guitar playing graced hundreds of rock, pop and country records by everyone from Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley to George Strait and Merle Haggard, died Thursday at his home in Leipers Fork, Tennessee, just outside Nashville. He was 82. As lead guitarist for the Memphis Boys, the …
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Ariana Grande and her female posse indulge in the good life in her new “7 Rings” video. The song will appear on her forthcoming Thank U, Next LP. In the Hannah Lux Davis-directed clip, Grande opens the song with a sing-song riff on the Sound of Music classic, “My Favorite …
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Todd Snider has released “Just Like Overnight,” the first track available off Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3, the singer-songwriter’s upcoming album. Recorded at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Johnny Cash’s former cabin-studio now owned by his son John Carter Cash, Snider’s next project is the folk songwriter’s first …
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