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Saturday Sessions: Lake Street Dive performs “Dance With a Stranger”

29Jun

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Saturday Sessions: Lake Street Dive performs “Dance With a Stranger”

Saturday Sessions: Lake Street Dive performs "Dance With a Stranger" - CBS News Watch CBS News Formed in Boston 20 years ago, Lake Street Dive is best known for their unique blend of jazz, pop, soul, country and folk music. Ahead of a nationwide tour, the band recently released their eighth studio album. Now, from "Good Together," here is Lake Street Dive with "Dance With a Stranger." Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

ABBA, Blondie, The Notorious B.I.G. among 2024’s additions to National Recording Registry

17Apr

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ABBA, Blondie, The Notorious B.I.G. among 2024’s additions to National Recording Registry

ABBA, Biggie, Blondie and Rudolph are entering America's audio canon. New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include ABBA's 1976 album "Arrival," The Notorious B.I.G.'s 1994 album "Ready to Die," Blondie's 1978 breakthrough "Parallel Lines" and Gene Autry's 1949 version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the 25 new titles in the class of 2024 on Tuesday, saying in a statement that they are "worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage.""Arrival" was the disco-tinged fourth album from the Swedish supergroup ABBA, and included their hits "Dancing Queen," "Money, Money, Money" and "Fernando." ...

Independent country artist Tanner Adell on how appearing on Beyoncé’s latest album is catapulting her career

16Apr

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Independent country artist Tanner Adell on how appearing on Beyoncé’s latest album is catapulting her career

Tanner Adell, who was recently recognized as one of CMT's "Next Women of Country," is experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity with a 1,500% increase in Spotify listeners after her unexpected appearance on Beyoncé's latest album, "Cowboy Carter."Adell, who just released her new single "Whiskey Blues," said the rise in fame has been a "unique experience.""Not many people have this experience, and I'm kind of just taking it day by day," she said. "Keeping my blinders on, head down. I'm a really hard worker. Writing a lot, in the studio constantly. I'm just trying to put out more music." Adell remained tight-lipped about her studio time with Beyoncé, urging fans to use their imagination about the collaboration, which was kept under wraps until the album'...

Saturday Sessions: Hurray for the Riff Raff performs “Alibi”

13Apr

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Saturday Sessions: Hurray for the Riff Raff performs “Alibi”

Saturday Sessions: Hurray for the Riff Raff performs "Alibi" - CBS News Watch CBS News New York native Alynda Segarra, a singer-songwriter, left home at 17 to travel the country and perform music. In 2008, Segarra was called "one of America's best songwriters." Now, 16 years later, Hurray for the Riff Raff has released their ninth studio album. From "The Past is Still Alive," here is Hurray for the Riff Raff with "Alibi." Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Billy Joel plays 100th show at Madison Square Garden

13Apr

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Billy Joel plays 100th show at Madison Square Garden

Billy Joel plays 100th show at Madison Square Garden - CBS News Watch CBS News Billy Joel is marking his 100th show of his record-breaking residency at New York City's Madison Square Garden. He's played the famed arena since 1978, and Sunday night you can watch his first-ever show to be broadcast on television on CBS. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Taylor Swift’s Music Is Back on TikTok—Right Before Her New Album Drops

11Apr

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Taylor Swift’s Music Is Back on TikTok—Right Before Her New Album Drops

In the drawn out contract battle between TikTok and Universal Music Group, a high profile exemption has been made for Taylor Swift. A few of her songs became available again as TikTok sounds on Thursday, just a week before the release of Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department. It remains unclear what kind of arrangement was made for her official music to come back, or how long it will remain on the social media platform.Madeline Macrae, a Swift fan and TikTok creator, heard the news Thursday morning and immediately started searching TikTok and Google to confirm it wasn’t some hoax. “I'm really excited to have that catalog back, and I don't have to rely on sped up versions or edited versions,” she says. “I can just use her actual music.” Songs like “Cruel Summer,” “cardigan,” ...

11Apr

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The Heart of Low | The New Yorker

Last winter, I flew to Minneapolis to hear a funk quartet play at a bar. The weather was miserable: hard-frozen snowbanks in every gutter, skating-rink sidewalks, roads so ripped up by rock salt and plow blades that I had to return my first rental car, because it shook like a leaf if I took it above thirty. I had come to see the band Derecho (since rechristened the Derecho Rhythm Section), the newest project of Alan Sparhawk, who for three decades fronted the seminal indie-rock band Low, which he co-founded with his wife, Mimi Parker.Sparhawk had grown his hair out during the pandemic, and the red-blond mane was still shaggy past his shoulders. He wore work boots, a black T-shirt, brown overalls, and a black beanie that came off as the room warmed up. As in Low, he plays guitar and sings ...

Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” reaches top of Billboard country albums chart

11Apr

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Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” reaches top of Billboard country albums chart

What inspired Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter"? What inspired Beyoncé's new album "Cowboy Carter"? 05:02 Beyoncé just keeps making history.The Houston-born singer became the first Black woman to top the Billboard Country Albums chart after her latest album "Act II: Cowboy Carter" hit the No. 1 spot. It also topped the all-genres Billboard 200, marking her eighth No. 1 album.The singer released the 27-track country album last month, and fans clearly can...

Mister Cee, a famed hip-hop DJ and key figure behind Notorious B.I.G.’s debut album, dies at 57

11Apr

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Mister Cee, a famed hip-hop DJ and key figure behind Notorious B.I.G.’s debut album, dies at 57

LOS ANGELES -- Mister Cee, one of hip-hop’s pioneering DJs and a New York City radio personality who played an instrumental role in the Notorious B.I.G.‘s debut album, has died. He was 57. The famed disk jockey’s death was confirmed Wednesday by Skip Dillard, the brand manager at 94.7 The Block NYC, where Cee had a show. The cause of death has not been announced.“We’ve lost one of the most important figures in the industry,” 94.7 The Block said in a social media post.Mister Cee was a key player in the rap community. He was formerly Big Daddy Kane’s DJ and an executive producer on The Notorious B.I.G.’s groundbreaking 1994 debut, “Ready to Die.”The New York native was also a radio personality on his hometown’s Hot 97. But he briefly quit his gig in 2013 after arrests in connection with sol...

Grammy-nominated artist Marcus King on his guitar being his salvation during his mental health journey: “Music is all I really had”

10Apr

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Grammy-nominated artist Marcus King on his guitar being his salvation during his mental health journey: “Music is all I really had”

Grammy-nominated musician Marcus King's new album, "Mood Swings," explores the darkest days of his mental health journey and the hope he's found through therapy and music after overcoming depression, body image issues and abandonment.King is a fourth-generation musician whose first memory growing up in Greenville, South Carolina, was opening his dad's guitar case. For King, the guitar feels like an extension of himself."'Cause it was my like original safety blanket, to escape everything," he said. "Music is all I really had to provide any kind of peace and calm waters within this storm going on in my brain and in my heart." King said his mother left when he was young, triggering abandonment issues."We've got a better relationship now," he said. "But tha...