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Lorde, Turnstile and a $1,000 Ticket: Inside FORM Arcosanti’s High-Stakes 2026 Return
The 2,000-capacity indie festival happens this weekend (Oct. 9-11) in the Arizona desert. "For it to continue, it has to be on another level,” says founder Zach Tetreault.
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Classic Traffic – “Ghost’s Host”
"Ghost's Host": That's not a song title that I ever want to try to say out loud. It would be a disaster. Those words would trip all over themselves coming out of my mouth. But New Jersey power-pop sto…
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Travis Scott, Charli xcx, The Killers and David Guetta to Headline 2027 Lollapalooza Argentina, Brazil & Chile
Queens of the Stone Age and the Neighbourhood will also take the main stage at the three festivals scheduled for March of next year.
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Steve Martin and Alison Brown on Reinventing Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ as an All-Star Bluegrass Tune… With Added Lyrics About Buc-ee’s and Sasquatch
Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” was so ubiquitous for so long that you might’ve been happy to imagine you’d heard the last of it. But a cover version has just been released that’s pretty much guaranteed t…
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Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose Is Returning to Streaming
Third Man will reissue Lynn’s 2004 comeback album, which was mysteriously pulled from DSPs in 2021
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Steve Martin, Alison Brown, Dan Tyminski & Del McCoury Give This Lil Nas X Hit a Bluegrass Spin
Martin and Brown worked together on the 2025 album Safe, Sensible and Sane.
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Watch Audrey Hobert Talk to a Redwood Tree in New “Phoebe” Video
The Friends-inspired Who’s the Clown? track gets its own visual
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Audrey Hobert on Charting Her Pop Career and Ignoring the Noise: ‘Whether It’s Positive or Negative, It’s Not True’
Audrey Hobert is standing on a chair, wearing Groucho glasses and an enormous trench coat and faux-strumming a banjo. She looks 10 feet tall. She moves across the stage as if dancing alone in her bedr…
American Songwriter
Born 94 Years Ago in Georgia, the A-Team Steel Guitar Master Who Played on Timeless Hits by Tammy Wynette, Charlie Rich, and Lynn Anderson
Charlie Rich, who released several hit songs featuring Pete Drake on steel Ninety-four years ago today, the innovative pedal steel master who played on a long list of classic songs was born in Georgia…
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Jess Kerber – “Louisiana Song”
The house where you lived when you were a kid: Do you still live there? Does anyone in your family still live there? Is the house still standing? Last year, my wife's parents sold the house that the f…
American Songwriter
Queen’s Brian May Sets the Record Straight on Band’s Touring Future After Retirement Reports
Photo by Jo Hale/FilmMagic Brian May is speaking out after he hinted that he may be done touring, clarifying what he meant and what lies ahead for Queen. The post Queen’s Brian May Sets the Record Str…
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Taylor Swift to Perform at 2026 Academy Museum Gala Honoring Charlize Theron, Colman Domingo
The event will come amid the pop star's Oscar campaign for "I Knew It, I Knew You."
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Billboard Español TV Launches New Original Series Featuring Bad Bunny, Carín León, Gloria Estefan & More
Fuse Media and Billboard’s free Spanish-language programming slate expands to Amazon Prime Video.
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Expand Your Palette With These 3 Legendary Synth Pop Songs
UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 01: Photo of Marc ALMOND and SOFT CELL; Marc Almond & Dave Ball (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns) If you want to get back to synth pop‘s roots, revisit these three legendary s…
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Taylor Swift to Perform at Academy Museum Gala
Taylor Swift is set to perform at the upcoming Academy Museum Gala. The evening, taking place on Oct. 17, serves as a fundraiser for and takes place at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Ang…
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David Byrne and Daniel Pemberton Made a Song Using Weird Elon Musk Quotes
“Let Me Sell You a Dream” appears in Musk, a new documentary about the tech mogul directed by Alex Gibney
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Rosie O’Donnell Apologizes to Friend Wynonna Judd For Painting Her as Trump Supporter: ‘I Was Wrong to Assume’
The comedian said she first reached out to her Judd privately after making the MAGA claim on a podcast in August.
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King Promise Teams Up With Chelsea F.C. for Fiery New Collab ‘Can’t Tame Us’ & Mini-Documentary
“It’s such a beautiful full-circle moment," said the 33-year-old of working with his favorite football team.
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Who Was the Greatest U.K. Pop Star of 2006, Arctic Monkeys or Lily Allen? Greatest Pop Stars Podcast
This two-part kickoff to Vintage Almost-Pop Stardom month on the Greatest Pop Stars podcast looks at two of the biggest years in mid-'00s U.K. pop — neither of which the U.S. got the same way.
