A biopic about Gucci Mane is in the works as Paramount Pictures and Imagine Entertainment acquired the rights to the Atlanta rapper’s The Autobiography of Gucci Mane. Paramount also retained the life rights to Mane’s story, the Hollywood Reporter writes, as will work with Imagine – the producers behind 8 …
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Beloved jam band Gov’t Mule will embark on a North American tour this spring in support of their latest album, Revolution Come… Revolution Go. The 13-date run kicks off April 18th at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and wraps May 4th with the group’s annual show in …
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Ratings for the 2018 Grammys slipped over 20 percent from last year’s event, putting Music’s Biggest Night in danger of securing its lowest ratings in modern history. Nielsen Media’s overnight returns showed the 2018 Grammys scoring a 12.7 rating in metered markets, a significant fall from last year’s 16.0; ratings …
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Members of Sonic Youth, Negativland and the Flying Lizards have all taken part in a new recording of composer John Cage’s music with pianist Tania Chen. Electronic Music for Piano is a work that Cage wrote in Stockholm in 1964 on hotel letterhead, asking for musicians to play parts of …
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The National mark the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration with the visceral video for “Walk It Back,” a song off the band’s 2017 LP Sleep Well Beast. The video manipulates CSPAN broadcasts (“the primary medium for political and commercial ideology”) of several notable political events – like Ronald Reagan’s …
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At the time of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan’s death earlier this week, she was set to revisit her band’s poignant 1994 hit, “Zombie,” with a heavy-metal band. Bad Wolves, a new group consisting of former members of DevilDriver, In This Moment and God Forbid, had recorded a version of the …
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Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and his band Calpurnia performed Friday night at Brooklyn’s Rough Trade NYC, where the group played a gig of both covers and originals off Calpurnia’s upcoming EP. In this Rolling Stone video, Calpurnia deliver their rendition of Velvet Underground’s “Here She Comes Now,” the White …
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The Weeknd has severed ties with clothing retailer H&M after a controversial photo of a black child modeling a hoodie reading “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle”appeared on the Swedish company’s website. The singer tweeted on Monday, “Woke up this morning shocked and embarrassed by this photo. I’m deeply offended and …
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Eminem, Jack White, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Travis Scott top the lineup for the 2018 Governors Ball Music Festival, set to take place June 1st through 3rd on Randall’s Island in New York City. The eighth installment of the festival will notably feature N.E.R.D. performing their first show in …
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A French film that used the Bataclan terror attack in Paris as the backdrop for a romantic drama has been postponed following an outcry over the TV movie. France 2, a national public broadcaster, announced Thursday that they have indefinitely shelved Ce Soir-Là (That Night) after a Change.org petition, created …
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