Claude Kelly, who has helped craft Grammy-nominated singles for Bruno Mars, Tamia and Ledisi, earned his first publishing deal as a songwriter in 2007. Around the same time, he started to notice dispiriting new constraints in R&B writing sessions. The genre was paring down rapidly to keep pace with hip-hop, …
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Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda unveiled a stomping new solo song, “About You,” featuring Blackbear. The track will appear on Shinoda’s debut solo album, Post Traumatic, out June 15th. “About You” opens with Shinoda spitting brutally honest bars – “I buckled up told myself to suck it up/ I was scared …
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Dave Matthews Band will release their ninth studio album, Come Tomorrow, on June 8th via RCA Records. The group has yet to detail a tracklist for the LP, which follows their chart-topping 2012 set, Away From the World. The genre-bending jam crew recorded Come Tomorrow between tours at studios in …
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My Bloody Valentine will stage their first U.S. shows in five years with a seven-date summer run. The trek, their first run of American gigs since their tour promoting 2013’s m b v, kicks off July 17th in Seattle and concludes August 1st in New York City. Tickets go on …
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Tinashe gave a scintillating performance of her new single “No Drama” on Thursday’s Tonight Show, with Migos rapper Offset onstage for his guest verse. The R&B singer opened with a dizzying display of choreography. She and her backup dancers used black raincoats and white umbrellas for a series of eye-popping …
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Gruff Rhys goes on an adventure into the great unknown in his new video for “Frontier Man,” the first single and opening track off the Super Furry Animals singer’s upcoming solo album Babelsberg. The simple concept for the video – Rhys plays a musician whose efforts to clean up a …
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A Tribe Called Quest‘s Q-Tip will serve as co-teacher for a New York University class that will examine the connection between hip-hop and jazz, the rapper revealed on Twitter. The seven-class course, among the first of its kind, will begin in the fall semester at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of …
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Influential rapper, producer and Anticon record label co-founder Brendon “Alias” Whitney died Friday at the age of 41. Anticon confirmed Whitney’s death in a statement Saturday. “Just received news of a major loss – the passing of our dear friend and Anticon co-founder @AliasAnticon,” the Los Angeles-based hip-hop label tweeted. …
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced the slate of artists that will be on hand at Cleveland Public’s Hall to induct the class of 2018 on April 14th.Brandon Flowers will do the honors for the Cars, Mary J. Blige will fete Nina Simon, Heart’s Ann Wilson will …
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DJ Esco attends a lavish house party with Future and Schoolboy Q in his quirky “Code of Honor” video. The clip opens like an outdated sitcom, with DJ Esco confronting his overbearing boss. After hearing he has to work overtime on the day of his friends’ barbecue, he storms out …
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