When some of doo-wop’s finest singers reflected on their craft recently for the new documentary, Streetlight Harmonies, they agreed that they started out performing on the streets in the Fifties for two main reasons: the camaraderie and the female attention. In a clip from the film – which premieres Tuesday, …
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Though most listeners know George Michael as the man behind a series of indelible, million-selling pop hits – many of which still play on radio today – the new Showtime documentary Freedomlooks to redefine the singer as a warrior in the never-ending battle against exploitative record contracts, an aficionado of …
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The cool vibe of Danielle Bradbery‘s summertime single “Sway,” continues into the early fall with the release of a new dance-centric music video. The song appears onThe Voice Season Four champ’s upcoming LP, I Don’t Believe We’ve Met. Throughout the feel-good clip, Bradbery is joined by groups of young dancers, …
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“They were always taking a step up,” Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks said of her close friend Tom Petty, his loyal band the Heartbreakers and their constant, determined ascent in ambition and popularity over four rock & roll decades. Nicks was speaking to me a week after Petty’s death for …
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“If you want to transcendDhani Harrisonthen first you have to be Dhani Harrison,” the songwriter/composer tells Rolling Stone. At age 38, after years of purposely flying just below the radar, he’s only now launching a proper solo career withIN///PARALLEL, his cinematic debut LP, out Friday. It’s been 15 years since …
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Newly named American Idol judges Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan and Katy Perry appeared on Good Morning America earlier today to talk about the singing competition’s reboot, but they couldn’t get around the deadly Las Vegas shooting that occurred two days before at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Bryan touched on …
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When it came to country music, Tom Petty preferred the old stuff. The real stuff, like Carl Perkins and Conway Twitty. Over the years, he’d slip a few of their songs into his sets with the Heartbreakers, singing them in the slow-moving drawl he was never able to truly leave …
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Haim lead an intricate line-dance in their exuberant video for “Little of Your Love” video,the second single from the pop-rock band’s second LP, Something to Tell You. Acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson directed the clip, set at L.A. bar Oil Can Harry’s. Guitarist Danielle Haim opens the clip strutting down …
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