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Cordae appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase two of his recent songs, “Sinister” and “Chronicles.” Appearing with live musicians, the rapper gave a slick, pensive performance of the tracks. He also sat down with host Jimmy Fallon to discuss his new album, From a Bird’s Eye View. From a Bird’s Eye View is set to arrive Jan. 14. The rapper announced the album, his second full-length, in December with a short spoof of big tech keynote speeches, complete with a classic Steve Jobs black turtle neck. The album will feature...

Naomi and Wynonna Judd, the mother and daughter that make up the Grammy Award-winning duo the Judds, made country music history throughout their career.Naomi Judd was born Diana Ellen Judd on Jan. 11, 1946, in Ashland, Ky. She got married at the young age of 17 and had a daughter, Christina Ciminella (aka, Wynonna Judd), in 1964. In the late '70s, the mother and daughter moved to Tennessee and began playing music together.The Judds signed to RCA Records in 1983, and from 1984 to 1989, the duo had 15 No. 1...

Cardi B’s lawsuit alleging a YouTube blogger defamed her with “malicious” claims about drug use, prostitution, and sexually transmitted diseases started trial in federal court in Georgia on Monday — and one expert tells Rolling Stone the rapper has a “good shot” at prevailing. “The jurors are all spaced out. They have shields up,” a courtroom source said, confirming jury selection was underway Monday morning despite the ongoing pandemic that previously caused delays in the case first filed back in March 2019. Cardi, born Belcalis Almánzar, is suing celebrity gossip...

Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall are offering a visual component to their 2021 release, the Marfa Tapes, with a documentary about the making of their acoustic project on a 5,000-acre ranch in the town of Marfa, Texas.Listening to the unvarnished, sparsely-produced result, you can hear background noises like airplanes, coyotes and cows, as well as a musical rawness that Lambert admits was a little uncomfortable to release."It's scary. It's risky. It's very, very vulnerable," the country superstar says in a trailer for the film. "To not have any fixes,...

Morgan Wallen returned to the Grand Ole Opry stage on Saturday (Jan. 8), making a surprise appearance during up-and-comer Ernest's Opry debut. The pair performed their newly-released duet, "Flower Shops," which came out on New Year's Eve (Dec. 31.)It was the first time that Wallen, who debuted at the venue in 2017, has hit the Opry stage since video footage emerged in February showed him yelling a racist slur. In the wake of that incident, he was removed from many country radio playlists, disqualified from major awards shows, had his...

A man was arrested Saturday outside a free Doja Cat concert in Indianapolis after attempting to jump the line by making a bomb threat. The crowd in the vicinity of the security line at the downtown Indianapolis outdoor venue was briefly cleared by police following the threat. Authorities investigated the veracity of the threat and soon discovered that the man’s backpack was empty.  The incident occurred moments before gates for the event opened at 5 p.m.; entry into the concert site was delayed for roughly 20 minutes, and Doja Cat’s...

Kane Brown and his wife, Katelyn, are adjusting to life as a family of four after their second child, Kodi Jane, was born on Dec. 30. The couple's oldest child, two-year-old Kingsley, is now a big sister -- and by the looks of things, she's a natural at it.On Saturday (Jan. 7), Katelyn shared a sweet series of photos of the two kids, with Kingsley's love for her baby sister on full display. The pictures show her snuggling and holding baby Kodi, while in one, she adorably plants a kiss...

Grace Slick in a blue velvet suit. Gram Parsons bashing a tambourine. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young appearing like they like each other. Altamont will be forever known as the death of the Sixties, but the Library of Congress just made it a little sunnier with previously unreleased footage. The 30-minute clip — released via the Congress’ blog — contains no sound, with a fuzzy home video quality that looks as if your drunk aunt filmed your backyard family barbecue. And yet it shows that contrary to how it was...

Michael Lang, the concert impresario who helped conceive the landmark, generation-defining 1969 music festival Woodstock, died Saturday night at Sloan Kettering hospital in New York. He was 77. Michael Pagnotta, a rep for Lang and longtime family friend, confirmed the promoter’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause was a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Alongside businessmen John Roberts and Joel Rosenman and music industry promoter Artie Kornfeld, Lang, who had previously promoted the 1968 Miami Pop festival, co-created the Woodstock Music and Art Fair the following year. Famously billed...

Marilyn Bergman, the songwriting giant and music industry fixture who, with her husband Alan, wrote the lyrics to Oscar-winning songs like Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” and Michel Legrand’s “The Windmills of Your Mind,” has died at the age of 93. Bergman’s representative Ken Sunshine confirmed Marilyn’s death from non-Covid-related respiratory failure to the Hollywood Reporter Saturday. She is survived by her husband and collaborator Alan, who is 96. “It is with deep sadness that I personally, and all of ASCAP, mourn the passing of Marilyn Bergman, one of...

Eric Church isn't afraid to raise a little hell and be an outsider -- and with that attitude and his outlaw country vibes, he's been able to build an incredibly successful country music career from the ground up. But there are three people that get him to show his tender side: his two sons, Boone and Hawk, and his wife, Katherine Blasingame.Church's wife, a music publisher, was in the music business before he was, and they met through work: "She was trying to hook me up to write with one of her writers...

Mitch Timbanard is hoping his Covid test comes back positive. The 47-year-old Orange County, California resident is one of many Wilco fans anxiously awaiting the band’s SkyBlueSky festival in Cancun. The multi-day fest is scheduled to begin January 17th and feature Spoon, Kurt Vile, Stephen Malkmus and Thundercat, among others. But as the Omicron variant surges and promoter Cloud 9 has shown no signs of giving refunds for several thousand-dollar resort/ticket packages, Timbanard’s left with the difficult decision of going to Mexico and getting stuck down there if he catches...

Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town are jumping back on the bandwagon together. First thing Friday morning (Jan. 7), the fivesome announced the reunification of their 2018 Bandwagon Tour, which will run through spring 2022.Part 2 of the tour — which Lambert calls "one of the most fun tours" she's ever done — will kick off on May 6 in Houston, with dates scattered across the East Coast and Midwest before it wraps up in Camden, N.J., on June 11.The Cadillac Three will serve as the support act on all of...