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Boyhood Home of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant For Sale in Florida
The Florida house where Lynyrd Skynyrd rock legends Ronnie, Donnie and Johnny Van Zant grew up is on the market for $629,000. The home in a working-class Jacksonville neighborhood comes with eight lots, plus a fourplex home and a manufactured home, property records show. There is also a historical marker, put in the front yard in 2018, which reads: “The Van Zants’ legacy, memorialized in this house, commemorates their prodigious contribution to the world of rock music.” Blue Horizon Property Solutions purchased the home for $67,500 in 2015, property records show. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The home is available for short-term vacation rentals, starting at $80 a night, and has its own website, vanzanthouse.com. The west Jacksonville area wa...
Elvis Costello Reunites With First Band Rusty, Announces Debut Album
Allan Mayes has been a hard working musician for more than the fifty years since we met. So, when he asked me if I wanted to celebrate this anniversary by getting together to play a few songs that we used to know. I said, “Absolutely not!” “Let’s make the record we would have cut when we were 18, if anyone had let us”. And this is what you will hear on The Resurrection of Rust. The EP contains new renditions of songs from our 1972 club repertoire; our duets on two Nick Lowe tunes from 1972; “Surrender to the Rhythm” and “Don’t Lose Your Grip on Love”‐ and closes with an arrangement incorporating Neil Young’s “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” and “Dance, Dance, Dance” which marks my recording debut on the electric violin. The stand out for me is Allan’s touching rendition of “I’m ...
Wynonna Judd Talks Mother Naomi’s Death: ‘I Feel So Helpless’
Wynonna Judd on Sunday (May 29) opened up about the death of her mother and singing partner, Naomi Judd, who died by suicide April 30 following a long struggle with mental health issues. In a heartfelt Instagram post, she wrote about the pain of her mother’s death and her feelings of helplessness. First asking “WHAT DO I KNOW?” — imagining her life coach was asking her that very question — she proceeded to answer it in several ways. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I DO know, that the pain of losing Mom on 4/30 to suicide is so great, that I often feel like I’m not ever going to be able to fully accept and surrender to the truth that she left the way she did,” she wrote. “This cannot be how The Judds story ends,” adding a hear...
Snoop Dogg Postpones 2022 Australia Tour
Snoop Dogg won’t be bringing his doggy style to Australia later this year as planned. The hip-hop legend was booked for an arena tour Down Under this October and November, though all dates are postponed “due to unforeseen circumstances, family obligations and filming commitments,” reads a statement issued Monday (May 30) by TEG MJR. The concerts company is said to be working closely with Snoop’s team on new dates, “which is looking likely” to be February 2023. “While we understand the disappointment with these shows moving back to 2023,” the statement continues, “we also respect Snoop’s decision and can’t wait to have the God Father of Rap finally back on Australian shores.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Tickets for the nixed concerts...
Warren ‘Waz’ Costello, Mushroom Group Label Veteran, Dies After Battle With Illness
Warren “Waz” Costello, a kingpin of Australia’s independent label industry, died Sunday (May 29) after a battle with cancer. He was 64. Costello co-founded Liberation Records with the late Mushroom Group founder Michael Gudinski, and remained one of Gudinski’s closest and most trusted allies until his own passing in March 2021. The Mushroom family is “deeply saddened by the passing of Warren Costello after a long battle with illness,” reads a statement from the indie music company. Since joining the label division “he has been an essential fabric of life at Mushroom. He was a true music man, a beloved friend to our artists and integral to the success of our business over the past three decades,” the message continues. “Warren was renowned for his positive energy, integrity and family value...
Coldplay Blast Chicago Fans With Waves of Intergalactic Love at Show Featuring Hometown ‘Superstar’ Lupe Fiasco
In a world where it often feels like too much all the time, Coldplay know they can’t fix you. But on a night when 50,0000+ fans packed into Soldier Field to see the group land their interplanetary pop spaceship during the first of back-to-back stadium shows in Chicago, they did everything they could to crank the joy meter past 11, if only for 2 hours. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The band reached that level on Saturday night (May 28) with the help of trippy puppet duets, silly dances in custom space helmets, brightly blinking bracelets that lit up the cavernous home of the Bears and a surprise cameo from hometown hip-hop hero Lupe Fiasco, who was so taken in the moment that, like the audience, he just didn’t want it to end. With ...
CIDERGIRL Drops “Hikosen” Music Video With DHL FAST-TRACK
Spotlighting emerging acts across the world, DHL’s FAST-TRACK program is its new venture into the music realm. For the latest episode, the global logistics brand has partnered with Tokyo-based J-pop collective CIDERGIRL. As the third act to join the initiative, DHL has created a conceptual music video for the band’s single “Hikosen” from the album series SODA POP FAN CLUB. With the track’s lyrics referencing airships, adapting the single into a music video was a perfect fit for DHL. Inspired by anime, the visuals follow the protagonist Lily’s journey on a quest to unveil the contents of a mysterious package. HYPEBEAST spoke with Yurin, Tomo and Fujimura of CIDERGIRL to discuss the band’s formation, creative process as well as the latest partnership with DHL. HYPEBEAST: Tell us about your j...
The Game Unveils Release Date of Hit-Boy-Produced Album ‘DRILLMATIC’
The Game has officially announced the release date of his upcoming album, DRILLMATIC – Mind Vs. Heart. The rapper took to Instagram to confirm the news, sharing a photo with his young son who can be seen sporting an N.W.A. chain. “DRILLMATIC – Mind vs. Heart,” he wrote, “June 17th 2022.” He also revealed that Hit-Boy will be serving as the record’s executive producer, who recently shared a clip of an unreleased track from the album. Earlier this month, The Game referred to himself as “the best rapper alive” while promoting the album in a now-deleted Instagram post. He shared his excitement for DRILLMATIC, which he believes will be the best album of 2022, while expressing his appreciation for the latest releases of Pusha T, Kendrick Lamar, Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Benny The Butcher and ...
Drake Is 2022’s Most-Streamed Artist So Far
Drake has been named the most-streamed artist of 2022 so far, with the likes of Juice WRLD, Eminem, the artist formerly known as Kanye West and more also joining the mid-year top 10 list. Chart Data revealed that The Boy currently leads this list with a total of 3 billion streams so far in the United States, followed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again with 2.8 billion streams. Taylor Swift, Juice WRLD and The Weeknd enter at Nos. 3, 4 and 5 with 2.5 billion, 2.2 billion and 2 billion streams, respectively. Making up the bottom half of the top 10 are Ye at No. 6 with 1.9 billion streams, Lil Durk and Morgan Wallen at Nos. 7 and 8 with 1.7 billion streams each and Eminem and Future at Nos. 9 and 10 with 1.5 billion streams each. Check out Chart Data’s tweet below. Most streamed artists this year ...
IKEA Reveals First Products From Swedish House Mafia’s Collection for Music Creators
Sweden is home to some of the most iconic pop culture phenomenons including Spotify, Candy Crush, Skype, Swedish Fish, and ABBA. Now, two of the Nordic country’s most famous brands, IKEA and Swedish House Mafia, are collaborating to remix the signature IKEA FRAKTA bag. Launching this fall, the collection will not only feature three new takes on the FRAKTA bag, but will also provide more than 20 furniture pieces, interior solutions, and accessories for up-and-coming music artists with limited means but unlimited creativity. IKEA’s remixed FRAKTA bag from Swedish House Mafia collection. c/o Press Fashioned in Swedish House Mafia’s signature all-black style, the collection is built for the functional needs that music creators have while on the go. It includes a bag for cables, cord...
Cardi B Shares Shocking Video of Yacht Sinking in Ocean While Vacationing With Offset
Cardi B captured shocking footage of a yacht sinking during a Memorial Day weekend vacation with her husband Offset. On Saturday (May 28), the “WAP” rapper gave a wild play-by-play account of the large boat slowly disappearing into the ocean. The dramatic clip was filmed from a luxurious vacation spot with a gorgeous view of the blue sea. “I can’t believe I’m actually watching a yacht sink,” she captioned the video on Twitter. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Cardi is heard screaming throughout the 45-second clip. “It’s sinking! Y’all see that? Oh my God, they can’t do nothing about it. There ain’t no big boat that can save it. It’s gone! Bye-bye.” Luckily, there weren’t any people aboard the yacht as it sank, she noted on her Instagram Story. I...
Fans Choose SEVENTEEN’s ‘Face the Sun’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music
SEVENTEEN’s highly anticipated album, Face the Sun, has topped this week’s new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (May 27) on Billboard, choosing the K-pop collective’s new project as their favorite new music release of the past week. Face the Sun brought in 94% of the vote, beating out new music by Calvin Harris with Dua Lipa and Young Thug (“Potion”), Eminem (“Jimmy, Brian and Mike”), Tate McRae (I Used to Think I Could Fly), and Blackbear with Machine Gun Kelly (“GFY”). Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Face the Sun is SEVENTEEN’s fourth studio album and first in almost three years. Spanning nine tracks, the new set features the group’s first English-language song “Darl+ing.” As one of the act’s main producers and ...
