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*The Brits have been through this before. In 2011, Prince was rumored to headline the UK’s biggest music event, the Glastonbury Festival. But it was Beyonce who ultimately took the main stage. Now the Daily Star claims seven-time Grammy winner Prince will grace the concert’s Pyramid stage. The paper reports he’s booked three gigs at [...]
*Before he’s ready to move onto the next life fad, Frank Ocean is still making music and plans to hit hard with a follow up to “Channel Orange.” The singer told BBC Radio 1 host, Zane Lowe that he’s nearly finished with the new project. “It’s another cohesive thing, bordering on a concept record again,” [...]
*A couple of MJs got together and brought the house down at Brooklyn’s new Barclays Center on Saturday. Mary J. Blige was one of two special guests who joined Mick Jagger on stage during the Rolling Stones’ first of three area shows marking the band’s 50th anniversary. Reprising her role from the “50 & [...]
*Yes, we all know that Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones front man, was singing about a sista in his 1971 hit “Brown Sugar.” Specifically he was telling the tale of his affection for Marsha Hunt. In fact, Jagger’s handwritten letters to his former lover Marsha Hunt will be auctioned in London next month. Hunt is an [...]
*Rick Ross is one interesting individual. The overweight rapper who has a particular admiration of himself covers the latest issue of “Rolling Stone” (in what looks like an unaltered photo). As the feature cover topic, he talks about his past as a corrections officer. Inspired by the love he had for a friend, Ross took [...]
*Rolling Stone has decided to pay a little tribute to mainstream Hip Hop by blessing the cover of the magazine with Wiz Khalifa. The young, 23-year-old from Pittsburgh is walking with giants, so to speak, as he is featured among 40 artists to watch dating back to 2007. He is the rookie of the year. [...]
*The Queen of Soul, Godfather of Soul and King of Pop have made a shortlist of the top 20 greatest artists in the last 50 years – as chosen by a new poll from CNN and UK-based Songlines magazine. Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Michael Jackson, respectively, join Madonna, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Bob Dylan [...]
*She has an interesting, eccentric style that at times begs the question about her sexuality. But Janelle Monae cleverly pranced around the topic in a recent “Rolling Stones” interview. She said her black and white fit is part of her “uniform.” “I call it my ‘uniform,” she said. “My mother was a janitor and my [...]
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