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Lovin’ Life Music Festival opens to sold out crowds in uptown Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - As Charlotte takes a deep breath and tries to recover from an emotional week, a celebration of love and life is happening right now in uptown. The Lovin’ Life Music Festival rolled into town for three days with some big-time headliners drawing in thousands of fans from hundreds of miles away.“It’s the first time they’re having this festival. Looking forward to seeing how the setup is […]

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Motley Crue Plays Deep Cut at 2024 Tour Kickoff: Set List, Video

Motley Crue kicked off their 2024 North American tour on Friday at Atlantic City, New Jersey's Hard Rock Live, dusting off a Too Fast for Love deep cut and giving their new song "Dogs of War" its live debut.You can see the set list and videos from the performance below.The rockers' 14-song set was almost the same as the one they've been using since embarking on the Stadium Tour in 2022, though […]

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50 Times Celebrities Made Cameos in Music Videos

If, as an artist, you play your cards right, making a memorable music video can help take a song from unassuming to ultimate hit.There are a lot of ways to do this, one of them being the inclusion of a famous face. Featuring a celebrity, often an actor or model, is an awfully effective way to get listeners to make note of a song — sometimes it's what people remember seeing […]

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Metro Boomin Seemingly Takes Credit For Reenergizing Rap

Metro Boomin has taken credit for Hip Hop’s heat streak over the past few months, insinuating that he is breathing new life into the genre.Taking to his Instagram on Thursday (May 3), the super-producer posted photos of himself in the studio, alongside a photo of a jacket that read “WE DON’T TRUST YOU,” implying that he’s hard at work on the next masterpiece.“HIP-HOP IS ALIVE AND WELL,” he wrote in […]

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Why Heart’s Biggest Hit ‘Never Felt Like a Heart Song’

Heart scored a bevy of hits in the ‘80s, yet Nancy Wilson believes one of their biggest successes “never felt like a Heart song.”During the ‘80s, Heart was routinely working with outside writers. The process yielded strong results, but it was also tedious.“We gave a lot of songs a good try,” Wilson noted during an appearance on the Broken Record podcast, recalling how she’d spend hours listening to demo cassettes. […]

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What Vince Neil Hated About Opening for Van Halen

Vince Neil revealed the downside to opening for Van Halen with Sammy Hagar during his ‘90s solo period.The singer had split with Motley Crue after being accused of having lost interest in making music. In a recent interview with the Outsider podcast (video below), he was asked if it had been difficult to head out as a solo artist in 1992.“No – it was great!” Neil said. “I opened for […]

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Three-Year Quest to Identify Lost Song Ends With ‘80s Adult Movie

A three-year hunt to identify a lost ‘80s song ended when one of the tens of thousands of people involved in the search found it in an adult movie soundtrack.The “lostwave” hobby involves trying to locate details of music created before the internet era. In 2021, an extremely low-quality 17-second clip was uploaded to the WatZatSong community by a user who said they couldn’t remember where they’d got it from, […]

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Odesza pulls out all the stops during Memphis music festival

Grammy-nominated electronic music duo Odesza capped the opening night of the inaugural RiverBeat Music Festival on Friday, bringing an array of scintillating sights and sounds to their Tom Lee Park performance.   While not having massive mainstream name recognition, Odesza — made up of Washington state natives Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight — have become one of the biggest contemporary acts in electronic music, with a series of chart-topping dance albums that […]

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The 15 best UK music festivals, from Lost Village to Boardmasters

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things musicGet our Now Hear This email for freeAs we start to look forward to those long, heady days of summer, chances are you’ll be thinking about booking a holiday or two. For many, music festivals are the perfect chance to get away from it all – whether that’s in a bustling seaside […]

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Kendrick Lamar ‘Meet the Grahams’ Drake Diss Drops

Mere minutes after Drake’s “Family Matters” arrived, Kendrick Lamar returned fire with the blistering “Meet the Grahams.” As the clock struck midnight on the East Coast on Saturday (May 4), K. Dot released his third Drake diss track this week. Family seems to be the common theme as he calls out Drizzy for being a “deadbeat” father and alleges that Drake is hiding another child besides Adonis. “You lied about […]

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