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Syd Announces 23-Date North American 'Beard' Tour
Syd will bring Beard across North America on a 23-date fall tour beginning November 7 in Vancouver and closing December 16 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
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Offset's 'Something I Need' Opens a New Solo Run With One Migos Album Still Left to Make
Offset opened a NEED FM hotline to push "Something I Need," out September 18, while Quavo readies QRÖMELIFE and the last Migos album waits on a date.
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Jhené Aiko Adds an iTunes-Only 21st Song as 'Westside Whimsy' Heads for Her First No. 1
HITS projects Westside Whimsy to debut at No. 1 on 72,000 units, with only 2,000 of them album sales. Hours later, Jhené Aiko put "Elsewhere" on sale in a limited iTunes edition.
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The Win: Nas and Pharrell Make The Case For One-Producer Albums
Isaac Hayes cut four songs in 1969, Nas took six straight albums from Hit-Boy before his first Grammy, and Pharrell has now produced two complete albums in fifteen months with a third finished. The one-producer album is the oldest arrangement in this music, and it keeps collecting the trophies.
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Tone Capone Replayed a Club Nouveau Hook: Thirty Years Later, "I Got 5 On It" Was Still Getting Cleared
Tone Capone, who died Saturday at 59, rebuilt a Club Nouveau melody by hand for the Luniz in 1993. Jordan Peele, the NBA and a TikTok sound page show where that decision led.
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Patrice Isley Has Five Octaves and a British Record Deal: Here's Why
A Houston vocalist with a five-octave range releases "Take Me In Your Arms" on Expansion Records, a UK independent that has spent forty years signing American soul singers the majors stopped calling.
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Macklemore Removed From Ed Sheeran's U.S. Tour as Other Acts Exit
Macklemore has been removed from eight remaining U.S. dates on Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, triggering additional withdrawals from Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham, Beoga and Finneas.
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Isaiah Rashad Adds Dates to 'The Sun's Tirade' For 10th Anniversary
TDE's quietest classic gets its first real victory lap: a Portland-to-Perth run that lands at The Signal in Chattanooga the night before Thanksgiving.
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AZ Chike Loads 'No Rest for the Wicked' With Tyler, Pharrell, Hit-Boy and Terrace Martin
AZ Chike's 14-track No Rest for the Wicked brings Tyler, the Creator back for two appearances and adds Pharrell Williams, Hit-Boy and Terrace Martin to the album's creative lineup.
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Anderson .Paak and Cordae Flip Bill Withers on "A Good Day," and the Trail Runs Back to J. Cole's "RNP"
The first Heavy Is the Crown single lands Wednesday on a Bill Withers flip. Here is what the clearance requires and why J. Cole's name keeps following this pairing.
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Jive Records Relaunched in February: Its First Releases Belong to a Houston Blues Singer
RCA revived Jive with Britney and Usher in the press release. Seven months on, the first records carrying the name are two singles from independent Houston R&B veteran Jack Freeman, and the deal structure says a lot about what the new label is.
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Ten Years On, 'The Divine Feminine' Is Where the Rest of Mac Miller Starts
The album that handed Mac Miller the weakest opening week of his career is platinum now, and the edition arriving October 2 shows the players who shaped everything he made afterward were already in the room in 2016.
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