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Kacey Musgraves helped open Saturday Night Live‘s 47th season on Saturday night (Oct. 2). The singer-songwriter performed two songs, both from her recently released album Star-Crossed, during the sketch comedy TV show’s season premiere, but it was her first performance of the night that was particularly daring. During her song “Justified,” Musgraves appeared to be onstage completely naked.
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Billy Blue Records’ release Country Faith Bluegrass is the first in a planned Country Faith series. No one can accuse the boutique label of craven cash-grabs assembling and promoting a collection featuring high profile mainstream country music stars indulging passions they seldom allow themselves to enjoy and bluegrass titans burnishing their legacies. Some songs are drawn from prior
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Marla Lewis’ third album release Songbook is far removed from her past as a performer of children’s songs. Lewis has carved out a sturdy reputation as one of the music world’s foremost songwriters in that area with work for youngsters that’s simultaneously fun and intellectually rewarding. Her many years as an educator primed her for such achievements
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Since dropping her 2008 hit, “I Kissed a Girl,” Katy Perry has become one of the world’s biggest pop stars. Along the way, she has sold over 48 million albums and garnered 50 billion song streams. However, even after more than a decade’s worth of work, including nine No. 1 singles and six LPs, she
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When the demon’s gone, I can somehow press on, Florida’s Rob Alexander sings in the new single “Olivia”. Armed with a voice for the ages and a backing band that has their ‘A’ game intact, this new pop/adult contemporary song is refreshingly honest and jumping with optimism. Despite the idea that love is lost, Alexander
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Rapper Eminem has a busy week ahead of him. Not only is he opening a restaurant named Mom’s Spaghetti in Detroit, but he is also getting ready for the release of Venom: Let There Be Carnage with a new track tease. Of course, Eminem previously released a track for Venom back in 2018, and now
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A new month brings a new documentary about the ongoing struggles for Britney Spears. This time it’s Controlling Britney Spears, which was a surprise release for FX and Hulu on September 24th. The film promises to continue the story of Spears’ fight for her freedom, but how much is accurate, and how much is overblown
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Calling all ARMYs and Coldplayers: It’s finally here! It all started back in April when a fan, who happens to be a staff member at South Korea’s Incheon Airport, went viral for claiming he met Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. From there, rumors of a potential Coldplay and BTS collaboration spread across social media. Fast forward
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A Stray Kids track a day keeps the stress away. Though one can argue the K-pop group’s energetic brand of “noise music” could possibly heighten tension, their bass-bumping, get-the-crowd-jumping songs are encouraging, vital points to Stray Kids’ calling: to be the voices of their generation. As showcased on their fiery 2019 hip-pop hit “MIROH,” or 2020’s
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You cannot quell the human spirit. All of us, to one degree or another, has suffered in some way since the beginning of the pandemic. COVID-19 has redefined our connections, interactions with our environment, dress, and countless other aspects of everyday life. Music lovers of every stripe are longing for a less elegiac and tortured
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When you name a song, “Why,” not only are you leaving a wide open interpretation, but you are isochronously asking the most powerful question. In the case of rapper, Ronnue, his reason for asking is rather simple. If you aren’t having sex with someone, why do you care whom they are having sex with? Some
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