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Crush joins forces with BTS’ J-hope on upcoming digital single ‘Rush Hour’

South Korean R&B singer Crush has revealed that his upcoming single will feature BTS rapper J-hope. READ MORE: J-hope talks ‘Jack In The Box’, headlining Lollapalooza, and what’s next for BTS Earlier today (September 19), the 30-year-old singer shared the first music video teaser for his new digital single ‘Rush Hour’ featuring J-hope. The clip is soundtracked by a groovy hip-hop instrumental while time flows in reverse around Crush. “Hey ladies, gentlemen, do what you wanna do, baby,” he sings. While Crush’s agency P Nation has released several promotional posters for the release in recent weeks, the new teaser reveals for the first time that the track will also include a feature from the BTS rapper. It is unclear whether J-hope will also be appearing in the music video. Advertisement ‘Rush Hour’ is due out on September 22 at 6pm KST. Crush’s most recent music was his feature on Psy’s ‘Happier’ from the veteran singer’s ‘Psy 9th’ studio album back in April, which was released while he was still serving his mandatory military service. The singer was discharged from the military in August 2022, making ‘Rush Hour’ his first release since completing his service. The singer’s last release was his… Read More →

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Foo Fighters announce new greatest hits album ‘The Essential Foo Fighters’

Foo Fighters have announced details of a new ‘best of’ compilation – ‘The Essential Foo Fighters’ will come out next month. READ MORE: Inside the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert: “A gigantic fucking night for a gigantic fucking person” The new album is due for release on October 28 via Sony Music, and follows their ‘Greatest Hits’ album from 2009. Available on CD and double vinyl, the album features 19 tracks on CD, with two extra songs (‘Breakout’ and ‘Waiting On A War’) on the LP. The career-spanning collection features the biggest songs from the band’s career, including two versions of ‘Everlong’ alongside ‘My Hero’, ‘Best Of You’, ‘Monkey Wrench’ and more. Advertisement Pre-orders for the album are available here and you can see its cover and tracklist below. The Essential Foo Fighters is a collection pulled from their studio album discography including a selection of fan… Posted by Foo Fighters on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 Side A: 1. ‘Everlong’ 2. ‘Making A Fire’ 3. ‘Times Like These’ 4. ‘Rope’ 5. ‘Monkey Wrench’ Side B: 1. ‘My Hero’ 2. ‘Cold Day In The Sun’ 3. ‘Big Me’ 4. ‘Long Road To Ruin’ 5. ‘Shame Shame’ 6. ‘Best Of You’ Side C: 1. ‘All… Read More →

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Marianne Faithfull – Songs of Innocence And Experience, 1965-1995

Throughout her storied life, Marianne Faithfull has been in a tussle with her reputation. Sometimes it looks like a dance. Often, it is more like a fight. Though she’s now revered as an elder stateswoman and a valued collaborator – Warren Ellis is her latest pet – this compilation explores the first two acts of Faithfull’s career. ORDER NOW: Björk is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut In the clichéd telling of it, Faithfull was manipulated and underestimated, if not exploited, during her pop career, before clambering from the wreckage and finding her own voice. If Faithfull sounded damaged – vocally, she did – the point was underlined. She has dismissed her early recordings as “cheesecake”, though her habitual flintiness has prompted others to diminish her achievements too: in a famously combative interview with Lynn Barber, the journalist tried to extract some small revenge by suggesting that Faithfull was “a singer with one good album”. In which case, why does she continue to fascinate? The good album in Barber’s reckoning is Broken English. While it’s true that the 1979 LP marked a clear kink in the road and is widely considered to be Faithfull’s masterpiece, it now sounds… Read More →

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Show Me The Body share single ‘We Came To Play’ and announce album ‘Trouble The Water’

Show Me The Body have shared a new single ‘We Came To Play’, alongside announcing new album ‘Trouble The Water’. The second offering from the upcoming album, ‘We Came To Play’ follows on from previously released single ‘Loose Talk’ and the new single has arrived with visuals directed by Zev Deans. “Although the title invokes the ancient alchemy Moses wielded to free and unite Israelite peoples, ‘Trouble The Water’ refuses nostalgia or mimicry,” said the band in a statement. Advertisement “Instead, it considers the sublime power of the unifying physical practices that can be enacted daily, to invoke immeasurable spiritual and collective reactions. Buoyed by moments of stinging stillness and compulsive, almost optimistic, malfunctioning rhythms, the work is literally a conjuration to dance, and move. If we are really living through the end of the world, maybe every movement we make, no matter how slight, is actually boundless and radical.” Recorded entirely in CORPUS Studios in Long Island City, Show Me Body’s upcoming third album ‘Trouble The Water’, set for release on October 28 via Loma Vista Recordings was produced by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Turnstile, Municiple Waste). You can see the full track list below and pre-order… Read More →

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Listen to Björk’s meditative new love song, ‘Ovule’

Björk has shared a new single called ‘Ovule’ – you can listen to it below. The song serves as the second preview of the Icelandic artist’s 10th studio album ‘Fossora’, which is due for release on September 30 via One Little Independent Records (pre-order here). READ MORE: Björk’s ‘Cornucopia’ live in London: an audacious, expectation-disrupting spectacular from an artist unbothered with people-pleasing Following on from the track ‘Atopos’, Björk’s latest offering sees the singer present her own unique “definition of love” in a musical form. Advertisement Announcing ‘Ovule’ on social media today (September 14), Björk wrote: “It is a meditation about us as lovers walking around this world and I imagine 2 spheres or satellites following us around. “One above us that represents ideal love, one below us representing the shadows of love and we ourselves walk around in the third sphere of real love, where the everyday monday-morning meet-in-the-kitchen-love lives in.” The single arrives with a captivating official video – tune in below. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Björk (@bjork) Speaking previously about the meaning behind ‘Fossora’, Björk explained that the album is about “a word i made up”, adding: “It is the feminine of fossore… Read More →

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Roxy Music announce UK tour support and release more London tickets

Roxy Music have announced the special guest support act for their forthcoming UK area shows, as well as releasing additional tickets for their London date. The Bryan Ferry-fronted group recently reunited for their first live shows since 2011 to mark the 50th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, which came out in 1972. They’re currently out on the road in North America. READ MORE: All of these classic albums turn 50 this year Next month, Roxy Music will return to these shores for concerts in Glasgow (October 10), Manchester (12) and London (14). Advertisement Today (September 14) it’s been announced that extra tickets for the currently-sold-out gig at The O2 in London will go on sale this Friday (September 16) – you’ll be able to purchase yours from here. An exact time has not yet been confirmed. Additionally, Roxy Music have revealed that the London-based singer-songwriter Nilüfer Yanya is set to open for the band at all three UK shows. Yanya supported both Adele and Sam Fender over the summer. Bryan Ferry performs live with Roxy Music. CREDIT: Getty Earlier this month, Ferry and co. released their greatest hits collection ‘The Best Of Roxy Music’ on vinyl for the very first time. Roxy Music… Read More →

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Watch the trailer for a new documentary about 2017 mass shooting at Las Vegas country festival

A new documentary on the mass shooting that took place at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas almost five years ago is due to be released later this month – you can view a trailer below. The atrocity occurred on October 1, 2017 when a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, targeting fans at the country music festival. The attack left 58 people dead and hundreds injured, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. The four-part documentary, titled 11 Minutes, will include the first in-depth interview with country star Jason Aldean, who was performing at the time when the 11-minute shooting began. Concert attendees, first responders, police, and FBI agents have also been interviewed for the documentary, according to Pitchfork. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist, the series includes footage obtained from over 200 hours of cell phone video, as well as previously unreleased police bodycam footage. The trailer shows the SWAT team heading towards the shooter’s Mandalay Bay hotel room, where he died by suicide before he could be captured. 11 Minutes will arrive at Paramount+ on September 27, coinciding with the week of the event’s fifth anniversary…. Read More →

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Listen to You Me At Six’s new collaboration with Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds

You Me At Six have released a new collaborative single with Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds – listen to ‘No Future? Yeah Right’ below. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: You Me At Six’s Josh Franceschi The joint track was premiered on Daniel P Carter’s ‘Rock Show’ on BBC Radio 1 last night (September 12). Reynolds had described the anthemic, synth-heavy song as “a belter” in a previous post on social media. The collaboration arrives with a red-filtered official video, which you can watch below. Advertisement ‘No Future? Yeah Right’ follows on from You Me At Six’s previous single ‘Deep Cuts’. That track marked the band’s first new music since their seventh and most recent studio album, 2021’s ‘Suckapunch’. NO FUTURE? YEAH RIGHT. WORLD PREMIERE. AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE FROM MIDNIGHT. pic.twitter.com/lyVeNORGk8 — You Me At Six (@youmeatsix) September 12, 2022 Enter Shikari also recently teamed up with Wargasm on the song ‘The Void Stares Back’. The two bands performed the collaboration together during Enter Shikari’s sets at Reading & Leeds 2022 last month. Additionally, this year’s R&L saw Reynolds take to the stage with Pendulum to perform on Australian drum’n’bass outfit’s remix of Shikari’s ‘Sorry You’re Not A Winner’. Speaking to NME backstage at Reading, Reynolds… Read More →

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Cavetown announces new album ‘Worm Food’ with single ‘1994’

Cavetown has shared details of his new album ‘Worm Food’ alongside a new single ‘1994’ and news of an extended UK tour. READ MORE: Cavetown – Bedroom-pop hero building worldwide community The singer-songwriter (real name Robin Skinner) will release his fifth album – the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Sleepyhead’ – on November 4 via Sire Records. Skinner said of his new single: “‘1994’ is about dealing with perceived guilt and how it can become over-exaggerated in my head. I’m working on defining the line between what’s really wrong in a situation versus what is made up in my head, because it’s the parts that aren’t real that I end up feeling quite guilty about. Advertisement “The lyrics are a message to myself, to help me see that there’s still a child inside of me that is deserving of love and care. The line ‘Say you’re coming around / I need you lately everything’s been getting me down’ is about feeling comforted by isolating myself, but learning to be comforted by the presence of someone else.” Watch the video, which was co-directed by Skinner, below. Meanwhile, this autumn Cavetown will play his biggest London show to date at the Eventim Apollo as… Read More →

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Easy Life announce huge 2023 UK and European headline tour dates

Easy Life have announced details of a 2023 UK and European headline tour featuring their biggest gigs to date – get full details below and find out how to get tickets here. READ MORE: Easy Life: “We bang the drum for places like Leicester because no one else will” The Leicester band are set to release new album ‘Maybe In Another Life’ next month (October 7) after production delays pushed the record back from a planned July release. The band have now revealed that following the album’s release they will tour across the UK and Europe in early 2023, with the extensive set of gigs including their biggest headline show to date at London’s Alexandra Palace on February 25. Advertisement “it’s happeninggg,” the band wrote on Twitter when announcing the gigs. “We are taking the easy life show on the road – UK, Ireland and Europe.” They added: “this is our biggest tour yet and we are bringing out the big guns.” General sale tickets for the show go on sale from 10am BST on Friday, September 16 here. Fans can access a pre-sale by pre-ordering ‘Maybe In Another Life’ here by 4pm BST on Tuesday (September 13). See the full… Read More →

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Daniel Romano’s Outfit – La Luna

It’s almost impossible to keep track of Daniel Romano. When he’s not publishing collections of poetry or art, the Ontario musician is either recording solo, producing others (most recently Carson McHone’s Still Life) or creating ambient epics under the guise of varianza. To call him prolific feels reductive. In 2020 alone, grounded by the pandemic, he released no fewer than eight albums, either solo or fronting Daniel Romano’s Outfit, including an entire reimagining of Bob Dylan’s Infidels. ORDER NOW: Joni Mitchell is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut La Luna might be his most ambitious project to date. A celestial song cycle in 14 chapters, served in two lengthy parts, it’s a modern psychedelic musical that seeks to address the big stuff: spirituality, God, creation, destiny and the like. The music, lyrics and arrangements are all Romano’s, though his Outfit – chiefly McHone, Julianna Riolino, Roddy Rosetti, David Nardi and brother Ian Romano – helps bring them to life in expansive, polyphonic detail. It’s rich in brass, orchestral strings and massed harmonies, with Romano sharing vocal turns with others. The opening section, “Genuine Light”, is a micro rock opera with shades of Rufus Wainwright and Queen, the… Read More →

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Watch Beavis And Butt-Head react to Tyler, the Creator video

A new episode of Beavis And Butt-Head sees the animated pair react to a Tyler, the Creator music video – see the footage below. READ MORE: Will Beavis And Butt-Head be the dullest thing ever in the YouTube age? The show’s ninth season – the first in 11 years – debuted on Paramount+ early last month (August 4), and promised that fans will see the titular duo deliver irreverent commentary on music videos by the likes of BTS and Olivia Rodrigo. In the clip, the characters react to Tyler’s Kali Uchis-featuring video for ‘SEE YOU AGAIN’. Upon seeing the video’s red hat-wearing backup dancers, Beavis says: “What country’s army is this?” Advertisement Butt-Head then responded: “I think it’s, like, Europe. Tyler, the Creator’s gonna overthrow America,” he adds. “Yeah I think he should overthrow America!” Beavis responded. “He’s not like these other politicians, you know? He tells it like it is!” See the clip below. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Stereogum (@stereogum) First premiering on MTV in 1993, most episodes of the animated series would feature Beavis and Butt-Head (both voiced by creator Mike Judge) watching and reacting to music videos that had come out shortly before the relevant episode had premiered…. Read More →

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BBC team up with TaP Music again to select Eurovision 2023 entrant

The BBC will be teaming up with TaP Music once again to find the UK’s entrant for Eurovision 2023. This follows their success with last year’s entrant Sam Ryder, who finished in second place, scoring an impressive 466 points overall with his song ‘Space Man’. READ MORE: Sam Ryder on his debut album and life after Eurovision: “Who knows what will happen next?” Ryder was personally chosen by the management firm and gave the United Kingdom its best Eurovision result since 1998. The track is also the highest-charting UK entry in over a quarter of a century (it peaked at Number Two, per the Official Charts Company). Advertisement The UK will stage the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 on behalf of this year’s winning country Ukraine (Kalush Orchestra clinched victory at the event in May with their track ‘Stefania’). Confirming the news of the partnership, the BBC said: “For the 2023 Contest the BBC and BBC Studios will once again be collaborating with TaP Music, the global management and music publishing company behind some of the world’s most successful pop artists, such as Lana del Rey, Ellie Goulding, London Grammar, Dermot Kennedy and Mabel in order to choose a song and act that will… Read More →

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The Joker’s real name revealed to be Jack White, real Jack White responds

DC Comics character The Joker’s real name has been revealed to be Jack White and the former White Stripes frontman Jack White has responded. READ MORE: Jack White – ‘Entering Heaven Alive’ review: his richest and most satisfying solo era yet The supervillain’s real name was featured in the Flashpoint Beyond comic series, a sequel to Flashpoint, which sees the Batman storyline taking place in an alternate reality. In it, Martha, who is that universe’s Joker, asks a character called Psycho-Pirate to reveal everything he knows about the DC universe, including the original Joker’s true name. White has called the Joker’s real name reveal as more than a “coincidence” since he had drawn inspiration from the character. Advertisement “An interesting note; during the process of putting together the artwork for my album ‘Fear of the Dawn’ last year, I asked artist Rob Jones to communicate with the amazing DC comic artist Mikel Janin to see if he would be interested in a commission: illustrating me in the range of the style that he draws his version of The Joker for DC comics,” white said via Instagram. White added: “Bizarre patterns and coincidences emerge in the universe that we only see glimpses of at… Read More →

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Mel C says she suffered with depression and an eating disorder in the Spice Girls

Mel C has said that she suffered from depression and an eating disorder after joining the Spice Girls. READ MORE: Spice Girls – their 10 best songs, ranked The singer, who is set to release her autobiography Who I Am on September 15, said her health problems started in 1994 when the band were still called Touch. The star claims she was demonstrating how to do a round-off backflip when a former manager allegedly told her: “I’m surprised you can do backflips with thighs like that.” This led her to cut carbs out of her diet in the early part of her career, she said. “I started with the elimination of food groups. Back then, fat was the enemy. And then of course, the fear of carbs came in. I got to the point where, for a couple of years, I was predominantly eating fruit and vegetables and that was it,” she told MailOnline. Spice Girls Credit: Tim Roney/Getty Images “It is not a sustainable way to live. I was never anorexic to the point of being admitted to a hospital, thank goodness. But my periods stopped, so obviously my body fat was too low.” She added:”I was quite unwell for… Read More →

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Ex-(G)I-DLE singer Soo-jin releases statement on result of her lawsuit against bullying allegations

A legal representative of former (G)I-DLE singer Soo-jin has issued an official statement sharing the results of her lawsuit against bullying allegations made against her last year. In August 2021, Soo-jin left the K-pop girl group amid bullying allegations dating back to February that year. Several alleged former classmates took to online forums to accuse Soo-jin of being a bully during her schooling days. Prior to her departure from (G)I-DLE, both the idol and her then-label, CUBE Entertainment, denied the claims. However, several months following the singer’s departure from the girl group, CUBE Entertainment announced that it had terminated its contract with Soo-jin, writing in a statement that “the [police] investigation determined that the individuals who made the comments were found not guilty of spreading false information”. “We respect the results of the police investigation, and we apologise for causing concern to many people,” the label wrote. Advertisement In a new statement published on September 8 from Soo-jin’s legal representative Choi Seung-hwan, via Chosun Ilbo, another investigation that took place after Soo-jin – referred to in the statement by her birth name Seo Soo-jin – reportedly filed a criminal complaint against the original person who published the allegations. “Seo Soo-jin has… Read More →

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Harry Styles jokes about spitting on Chris Pine at New York concert

Harry Styles joked about spitting on Chris Pine last night (September 7) as he returned to the stage for a concert in New York. READ MORE: The five most wholesome moments from Harry Styles’ One Night Only In London show It follows a viral clip at the premiere of Don’t Worry Darling in Venice earlier this week which many viewers believed showed Styles spitting on co-star Pine as he took his seat next to him. A source close to Styles told The Guardian that “this is not true”. Pine’s rep also released a statement to People, denying that the incident took place. Advertisement “This is a ridiculous story – a complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation,” Pine’s representative said. “Just to be clear, Harry Styles did not spit on Chris Pine. There is nothing but respect between these two men and any suggestion otherwise is a blatant attempt to create drama that simply does not exist.” Harry Styles, at Madison Square Garden, acknowledging spitting on Chris Pine pic.twitter.com/49vcVwrJ0N — J (@jimotheeee) September 8, 2022 Making light of the clip, Styles joked during his Madison Square Garden concert: “It’s… Read More →

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Pixies – Ultimate Music Guide

As they release a great new album, we present the Ultimate Music Guide to the Pixies – and their magnificent sister group The Breeders. From the spectacular breakthrough, through the mounting tensions and split – and the surprising rebirth – this is the full story of an incredibly influential art-rock band dynasty. “You’ll think I’m dead, but I sail away…” Buy a copy here!

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Robbie Williams compares musical approach to Morrissey and Elton John

Robbie Williams has compared his musical and songwriting approach to that of Morrissey and Elton John in a new interview. READ MORE: Robbie Williams on Damon Albarn, Morrissey and the dark side of Take That: “I have a cannon-full of quotes” The pop star is set to release his latest album ‘XXV’ on Friday (September 9), which contains re-recorded and orchestrated versions of songs from across his career. Speaking to NME, Williams spoke about the lack of credit he receives as a songwriter despite penning numerous hits over the last three decades. “If you break down the maths of what I’m doing musically on a song, I do the same thing that Morrissey does,” he said. Advertisement “I’m not saying in any way, shape or form that I’m as good as or better than Morrissey, I’m just saying: I do the same thing. He sings to melody and puts a lyric to it.” Williams continued to add John to his list of comparisons. “Same with Elton – he does it the other way around,” he explained. “It’s only annoying when there’s disrespect brought to it. I’m not bothered, but if it’s levelled against me that I don’t [write] or it’s ‘his… Read More →

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Deputy Prime Minister Thérèse Coffey’s LBC interview interrupted by her Dr. Dre alarm

Thérèse Coffey, the UK’s newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary, was forced to turn off her Dr. Dre alarm after it went off during an interview with LBC this morning (September 7). Coffey was appointed to the cabinet last night (September 6) by the new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, who took office yesterday following the departure of Boris Johnson. READ MORE: The biggest moments from the Super Bowl Halftime Show 2022 During an interview with LBC’s Nick Ferrari this morning, Coffey started reaching for her bag as Ferrari started to ask her a question about her residences. Advertisement “Are you alright over there? Have you got a phone ringing?” the host enquired, to which Coffey replied: “I’ve just realised that my alarm is going off on my phone, I do apologise.” Asked by Ferrari what the alarm sound was, Coffey said that the listeners were “getting a bit of Dr. Dre” as the sound of Dre’s 1999 hit ‘Still D.R.E.’ could be heard. You can watch the moment below. This is the moment Deputy Prime Minister Dr Thérèse Coffey's interview with @NickFerrariLBC is interrupted by her 8am alarm. 'You're getting a bit of Dr. Dre…' pic.twitter.com/rFURenaDCd — LBC… Read More →

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Emmy-winning music director wants to take Dr. Dre’s Super Bowl Halftime Show on tour

Adam Blackstone, the Emmy-winning music director who worked on Dr. Dre‘s Super Bowl Halftime Show, has said that he wants to take the star-studded performance on tour. Dre headlined the performance at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California back in February, in which he performed alongside Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, Anderson .Paak and 50 Cent. READ MORE: The biggest moments from the Super Bowl Halftime Show 2022 The Halftime Show sparked a surge in subsequent sales of Dre and Eminem’s albums, while Dre, Eminem and Snoop were all pictured in the studio together recently. Advertisement Speaking to Variety after he picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction for his work on the Halftime Show, Blackstone said that his vision for the performance was for it to be “a great music show”. “It wasn’t about Black or white. It wasn’t about hip-hop versus pop music,” he said. “I pride myself on making that a great music show that will continue to show the legacy of each of those artists.” Adam Blackstone, winner of the Outstanding Music Direction award for ‘The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent, attends the… Read More →