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On Wednesday, a Manhattan jury needed little time finding rap pioneer Kidd Creole guilty of first-degree manslaughter for stabbing a homeless man to death more than four years ago. The panel reached its decision just hours after lawyers on both sides presented their closing arguments. When the verdict was announced, Glover dropped his head, a courtroom source tells Rolling Stone. The artist, whose legal name is Nathaniel Glover, rose to fame in the early 1980s as an original member of landmark hip-hop collective Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. He...

Indie folk foursome River Whyless’ love for nature is evident in everything they do, including their latest album Monoflora, out April 8 via Soundly Music.In addition to songs like “Heaven and Light,” which features sounds that emulate birds chirping, the record’s cover illustrates a patch of wildflowers, a person looking across a body of water, staring at what appears to be Earth rising behind some rocky cliffs.The same sense of wanderlust that eminates from the album cover permeated throughout the record’s recording process, too. The twelve new tracks came together during a month-long retreat in August 2019 at...

UPDATE (4/6): The Weeknd is headed to Coachella. The pop star shared a new poster for the upcoming festival showing that he and Swedish House Mafia will replace Kanye West as the headliner for the third night. While Swedish House Mafia were already slated to perform at this year’s fest, the addition of the Weeknd is new. It’s unclear exactly how the co-headlining performance will pan out, though the two artists have collaborated on a handful of tracks recently, including two songs on the Weeknd’s LP Dawn FM, and the...

The Grand Ole Opry is expanding its interests on a global scale. The country music institution's parent company, Ryman Hospitality Properties, has sold a 30 percent stake in its entertainment operations to two investment firms.Comcast-backed NBC Universal and Atairos now hold a minority stake in Opry Entertainment Group (OEG) amounting to $293 million, the Hollywood Reporter reports. The bulk of that money comes from Atairos, who is contributing $278 million. OEG is also set to receive a Term Loan B for $300 million, for a total sum of $593 million. All...

Bobby Rydell, one of the first music idols to spur teen fandom in the Fifties and Sixties, has died at age 79. His death was caused by complications from pneumonia, a rep for the artist confirmed in a statement. “He had the best pipes,” his good friend and radio legend Jerry Blavat told the Inquirer. “He could do Sinatra, he could do anything… He could do comedy. He played the drums. He was a great mimic… He could have been as big as Bobby Darin, but he didn’t want to...

When Noah Thompson took the stage on Monday night (April 4) to perform on American Idol, he intentionally decided to step outside of the box. The 24-year-old construction worker from Kentucky chose a song from way outside of his genre as part of the intense “Showstoppers Round.”Belting out a cover of the pop smash "Stay" from superstar Rihanna, Thompson caught the full attention of the audience and judges, Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie. Even though his song choice was unpredictable, Thompson made the tune his own, inserting his natural country...

Cody Jinks deviated from his set list of outlaw-country tunes like “I’m Not the Devil” and “Must Be the Whiskey” during his weekend show in Round Rock, Texas, weaving in a Foo Fighters cover to pay tribute to the band’s drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died March 25. Around the halfway point of his concert at the Round Rock Amp north of Austin, Jinks recalled seeing the Foo Fighters perform in December in Las Vegas. “Taylor was such a big part of their show. It was so much fun getting to...

Brothers Osborne closed down the 2022 Grammy Awards on Sunday night (April 3), performing their fast-paced and catchy "Dead Man's Curve" to end the show after the last trophy was handed out.But after the curtain fell on that performance, brothers and bandmates T.J. and John Osborne apparently went on to have two very different kinds of nights."As soon as the show's over, trust me, we're gonna find a party," T.J. told Laverne Cox on the red carpet for E! News Online. "You know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, so...

Federal prosecutors are pushing back hard against R. Kelly’s claim that sentencing for his sex trafficking conviction in New York, now set for May 4, should be postponed until after his upcoming federal trial on separate charges in Illinois. Kelly’s new lawyer is seeking the delay with the argument Kelly deserves a chance to work with a sentencing mitigation expert without fear “his words might be used against him in some manner” at his next trial, set to start Aug. 1. The lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, says Kelly has a Fifth...

The first performers for the 2022 CMT Music Awards have been announced, and the lineup includes some of the biggest names in country music today.Kelsea Ballerini, Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd, Carly Pearce, Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson and Keith Urban are all among the first round of performers CMT announced in a press release on Tuesday morning (March 22). They will take the stage to perform songs and collaborations during the ceremony, during which CMT will award categories...

Father John Misty quietly dropped a sprawling new song, “The Next 20th Century,” the sorta title-track from his upcoming album, Chloë and The Next 20th Century, set to arrive this Friday, April 8, via Sub Pop. “The Next 20th Century” is an epic ballad that starts at a steady atmospheric pace, but with an extremely attention-grabbing first line, “The nazis that we hired/For our wedding band/Played your anthem like I wasn’t there.” From there, Father John Misty waxes philosophical on empire, death, decay, and pop culture (including a Val KIlmer...

Brothers Osborne took the stage at the 2022 Grammy Awards on Sunday night (April 3) to perform "Dead Man's Curve," delivering an energetic rendition.The sibling duo of guitarist John Osborne and singer T.J. Osborne gave a high-energy and engaging performance of the song to close out the 2022 Grammys, taking the stage after a night of all-star awards and performances.The winning performance followed their triumphant Grammy Awards win, when their song "Younger Me" won Best Country Duo/Group Performance during a special afternoon ceremony prior to the televised nighttime show on...

Justin Bieber might get his peaches out in Georgia, but he brought his Grammy-nominated single to Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Arena. On Sunday, Bieber brought out Giveon and Daniel Caesar for a show-stopping rendition of their “Peaches” collaboration. Bieber began his performance from behind the piano, doing a slow jam take on the hit song solo. He was soon was joined by a full band and his collaborators Caesar and Giveon. The second half of the song was more enthusiastic — especially for whoever was in charge of bleeping out...