DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, announced on Thursday that more than 300 companies have signed on to his Trillion Tree Campaign, which aims to plant, restore, or conserve 1 trillion trees by the end of the decade. Benioff broke the news in Davos, Switzerland, at the World …
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The Recording Academy has confirmed rumors that Lil Nas X will perform “Old Town Road” with a slew of special guests, including BTS and Diplo, at this year’s Grammy Awards telecast on Sunday evening. Billed as the “Old Town Road All-Stars,” Lil Nas X will be joined by BTS, Diplo, …
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Neil Portnow, who stepped down as CEO of the Recording Academy in 2019, called a new allegation of rape “ludicrous and untrue” in a statement on Wednesday. Portnow was accused of raping an unnamed “foreign recording artist” after her show at Carnegie Hall in New York in a document filed …
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David Olney was a unique breed of songwriter, one who rarely revealed himself directly through his songs. Instead, the intimate details that emerged in his remarkable works focused on the emotional being of characters he himself seemed to be learning about as the stories unfolded. Yet because he knew their …
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Welcome to 2020’s hottest new trend: nostalgia for 2019. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for an in-depth look at last year’s music, mostly through the prism of its best songs, from Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cash Shit” (with …
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“All my friends are at the party/But I’ve got other plans,” Ella O’Connor Williams, the indie singer-songwriter who records as Squirrel Flower, tells us on “Streetlight Blues.” If those plans involved heading home to write this song, it was alone-time well-spent. Williams grew up in Boston and went to college …
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Eminem surprise-released his 11th album on midnight Thursday, ending weeks of rumors and speculation on when the rapper would unveil the follow-up to 2018’s Kamikaze. The 20-song album features guest appearances by Ed Sheeran, Black Thought, Q-Tip, Royce Da 5’9″, Anderson .Paak, Young M.A., and a posthumous appearance by Juice …
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Daniel Radcliffe is far away from his Harry Potter days in the new trailer for action flick Gun Akimbo. Directed by Jason Lei Howden, the film reveals a near-future world where Internet comments may have truly deadly results. The high-energy trailer has tones of The Purge, but seems like it …
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UPDATE:Bon Jovi have added two more dates to their summer tour: A July 11th concert in Montreal and a second concert in Boston July 17th. Tickets for both shows go on sale March 6th. ** Bon Jovi have scheduled a North American tour for this summer in support of their …
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Ethan Gruska has been there all through Phoebe Bridgers‘ rise to the top of the singer-songwriter pack. The grandson of Star Wars composer John Williams and one half of the brother-sister duo the Belle Brigade, Gruska has had a hand in producing Bridgers’ 2017 debut, Stranger in the Alps; her …
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