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Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Taps Lucinda Williams for Summer 2021 Tour
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit plan to hit the road with special guest Lucinda Williams next year for an unforgettable summer jaunt. The whole squad’s first pit stop in their North American journey is in Vancouver, B.C. on July 19, while wrapping around the West Coast and southwest states before reaching the last two shows in Austin, Texas from Aug. 7-8. Tickets are on sale and available for purchase here. Isbell and his band are touring in support of their latest studio album Reunions, which soared to the top of three Billboard charts (all tallies dated May 30) — making a 20-1 leap on the Top Rock Albums chart, jumping 17-1 on the Top Country Albums chart, and skipping one spot 2-1 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart. Check out Williams’ tour announce...
LAMC 2020: Juanes Gets Real, Talks Creating Music During a Pandemic
Juanes was in Colombia, ready to perform for his fans at a sold-out Bogota show when the coronavirus outbreak caused businesses to close, concerts to cancel and airports to stop operating. Since March 13, he’s been hunkered down in Miami with his family, reorganizing and trying to understand the new reality. “My values and priorities are different now,” he said to NPR’s alt. Latino Felix Contreras during the Latin Alternative Music Conference on Wednesday (June 10). “It changed me and changed the way I’m going to create music in the future.” In his latest studio album, Más Futuro Que Pasado, released before the pandemic, the Colombian artist experimented with different sounds. At that time, he was certain of the path he wanted to take his music and lyrics. But because of quarantine a...
Alicia Keys Leads All-Star Call for Justice for Breonna Taylor in Powerful PSA
Alicia Keys asked her 30 million Twitter followers one question: “Do you know what happened to Breonna Taylor?” In a nearly three-minute video posted today (June 10), Keys led a crucial call-to-action video that featured Tamika Palmer, who recalled the brutal murder of her child. Taylor, a Kentucky-based EMT, was fatally shot eight times in her home on March 13 after three Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers broke in using a “no-knock” warrant. “They fired 22 times, eight of those bullets landed in the body of the most essential worker I will ever know,” Palmer said about her late daughter. “Now the whole city is mad, now the whole world is mad. Breonna should not be dead. Some days, I feel like I can’t breathe without her...
MoneyBagg Yo Plays Golf & Hangs Out With His Kids in ‘Cold Shoulder’ Video: Watch
HIP-HOP 6/10/2020 In efforts to push his lauded album Time Served, MoneyBagg Yo ventures to the golf course for his “Cold Shoulder” video. Not only does the Memphis powerhouse practice his swing, but he also manages to squeeze in family time with his children. “Barely say no to my kids, been like that since I birthed ’em / DeMoney a spittin’ image of me, his mama say I cursed him,” he raps on the candid track. Last month, MoneyBagg hurled out the deluxe album for Time Served, which included seven new tracks. Features include Lil Baby, Rylo Rodriguez, Big Homiee G, and Big 30. In January, Time Served debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, marking a career-high for MoneyBagg. So far, he notched two Gold records from the proj...
Here’s When Blackpink’s Highly Anticipated Comeback Single Is Dropping
Get ready, Blinks! Blackpink is coming back to your area soon as the K-pop girl group announced its comeback single will drop June 26, according to YG Entertainment. The untitled single ends Blackpink’s one-year musical hiatus since the Kill This Love EP, which reached the No. 42 spot on the Billboard 200 in April 2019. The song also serves as the lead single for the quartet’s first-ever full studio album due in September. Sounds like everything’s going according to the release plan YG Entertainment publicized to fans last month that stated the pre-release title track will come out in June. Blinks can then expect a second new song from members Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa either in July or August. To hold fans over until then, the women delivered ...
This DJ Snake Track Reached a Billion Plays on Spotify
DJ Snake has hit the billion streams mark on Spotify, again, with his smash “Taki Taki.” The slinky bilingual hit, featuring a no scrubs lineup of Cardi B, Selena Gomez and Ozuna, was the party starter of 2018 and has kept on racking up major plays since its release nearly two years ago. This is the third time the French phenom has reached a billion streams on Spotify. His era-defining Major Lazer collaboration “Lean On” became the platform’s most streamed song of all time just eight months after its March 2015 release, with 526 million streams. (Five years later, “Lean On” is now the platform’s 18th most streamed track of all time, with a cool 1.359 billion plays.) Then, in October of 2018, Snake again made Spotify history by becoming the fifth art...
Questlove, 50 Cent, John Legend & More React to Congressional Democrats Wearing Kente Cloth to Honor George Floyd
On Monday (June 8), House and Senate Democrats donned the Kente cloth, an indigenous Ghanaian textile that’s become a ceremonial stole for Black people in the U.S., while introducing the “Justice in Policing Act of 2020” police reform bill in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and resulting protests. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Kamala Harris and more Democratic lawmakers wore the traditional cloth while kneeling for eight minutes and 46 seconds at the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall to commemorate Floyd, a Black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for the same amount of time. But artists on Twitter took the whole day to criticize and mock what’s been labeled a senseless fashion disaste...
Chika Slams ‘Selfish’ YG for Filming Music Video During Los Angeles Protest
As protests continue to rise across the nation demanding justice for George Floyd and the entire Black Lives Matter movement, YG joined the Los Angeles demonstrations over the weekend–but Chika is calling him out for misusing his platform. “YG said he here to shoot a video,” the rapper and activist tweeted on Sunday (June 7) from the crowd. “I would like to go home. this feels incredibly disingenuous. but im glad people showed up.” “shooting a music video while breonna taylor’s killers are still walking the streets is f—ing disgusting,” she continued. Last week, YG shared his protest song “FTP (F— the Police),” which features lyrics like, “F— pig, f— bacon / I don’t eat pork, I replaced...
YG Plays ‘FTP’ During L.A. Protest: ‘All of Us Protesting Are on the Same Side’
As celebrities continue to protest across the nation in hopes of accelerating justice for George Floyd and the entire Black Lives Matter movement, YG participated in the action and had a resounding message for his detractors over the weekend. “For anyone out there talking I don’t question your advocacy and don’t think you should question mine,” he wrote in an Instagram post Monday (June 8) after protesting in Los Angeles alongside BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, Melina Abdullah of BLM LA and Kendrick Sampson in Hollywood. “See you gotta understand that a lot of people out there they see me as a N—a. They don’t see the black proud man. They see a kid from Bompton and they expect violence. They hear FTP and they think I’m gonna come and burn m...
‘Why I Protest’: Snow Tha Product on Why She Marches in Solidarity With Black Lives Matter
People across the country and around the world have taken the streets to protest since late May, demanding justice for George Floyd and other black citizens who have died in the hands of police. Marching in solidarity with the black community and fighting against institutional racism, Mexican-American rapper Snow Tha Product (real name: Claudia Feliciano) is among the thousands of people who are chanting “black lives matter.” “We represent a culture that has our own struggles, and me as a Mexican queer woman, I definitely have plenty struggles tacked on to my career,” Snow tells Billboard. “But this is about all of us. This is about inequality. Black and brown unity is very important.” The California-born “Bilingue” singer has also ...
Nick Cordero’s Wife Amanda Kloots Gives Update on His Condition: ‘Things Are Moving in the Right Direction’
Nick Cordero’s wife, Amanda Kloots, gave a hopeful update on the actor’s condition on Sunday (June 7) as he battles the coronavirus. “S0 I think this weekend was a good weekend, it was uneventful,” she said in a series of videos posted to her Instagram Stories. “Which, uneventful in the ICU is a good weekend. I think he had a weekend of rest, a weekend of growing, strength in his body and recovering a little bit. … Not too many changes were made, which is also a good sign, but one really good sign is his white blood count number is way down. So it has been as high as 65,000; we are now at 30,000. A frame of reference: a normal healthy person is around 15-20,000, even lower sometimes. So 30,000 is a great sign that things are moving in the right direction...
Katy Perry Sends Off Graduates With ‘Daises’ and ‘Firework’ on ‘Dear Class of 2020′
Katy Perry gave the class of 2020 a big send-off to wrap up the Dear Class of 2020 YouTube ceremony on Sunday (June 7). The singer appeared on screen following former president Barack Obama’s inspiring speech to help graduates toss their caps. “Lets turn those tassels and make it kind of official — whether you’ve got a real cap and a tassel or an iPhone taped to a pizza box,” she told viewers. “This is the moment for everyone around the globe to graduate at once. No matter where you are, remember: The tassel goes from right to left.” After the countdown, Perry — who is expecting her first child with Orlando Bloom — launched into her new single “Daises” from her upcoming album due Aug. 14. As she sang, the singer — evok...
