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Grammy-nominated musician Marcus King’s new album explores his mental health journey

10Apr

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Grammy-nominated musician Marcus King’s new album explores his mental health journey

Grammy-nominated musician Marcus King’s new album explores his mental health journey - CBS News Watch CBS News Marcus King’s new album takes a personal look at the darkest days of his mental health journey. It also focuses on the Grammy-nominated musician’s hope found through therapy and music. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

10Apr

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Pop Music Is Mad. Social Media Loves It

Not everyone is buying it. Despite the study’s findings, “I don’t believe hip-hop lyrics are more angry,” says Dame Aubrey, head of A&R for CMG Records and Management, a music label that represents rappers Moneybagg Yo, BlocBoy JB, and GloRilla. If anything, Aubrey says, what changes we do hear are a product of how music has expanded. It’s simple, Aubrey says: more people, more perspectives. The medium is more accessible now because of the technology available. “There’s just a lot more artists with opportunities to be heard because it basically became a trend to make music.”One major adjustment in all of this is the mechanics of how a song gets popular, and what its popularity generates.In the age of social media, that can often translate into more of the same kinds of sounds, althoug...

2024 CMT Music Awards celebrate country music tonight. Here’s what to know for the show.

7Apr

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2024 CMT Music Awards celebrate country music tonight. Here’s what to know for the show.

The CMT Music Awards are tonight, and country music's biggest stars have flocked to Austin, Texas, to celebrate the genre. The CMT Awards, or Country Music Television Awards, celebrate the best in country music videos and television performances. Fans vote on the winners of each award. Here's everything you need to know about how to watch the CMT Music Awards and red carpet arrivals, who will be performing, and more. When does the CMT Music Awards red carpet start?The CMT Music Awards red carpet starts at 7 p.m. ET, one hour before the awards show kicks off. You can expect to see celebrities, performers and more arriving at Austin's Moody Center. The red carpet coverage on CMT will be hosted by Cody Alan, Carissa Culiner and Marley Sherwood. ...

ABBA fans mark 50 years since ‘Waterloo’ took the world by storm

6Apr

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ABBA fans mark 50 years since ‘Waterloo’ took the world by storm

LONDON -- It’s 50 years since ABBA won a major battle with “Waterloo.”A half-century ago on Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song, which opens: “My my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way.”The song rang out again Saturday at London’s Waterloo railway station — also named after the 1815 battle that dealt defeat to the French leader — where a choir belted out a rendition for commuters.In the English coastal town of Brighton, where the 1974 competition was held, fans were staging a flashmob dance and silent ABBA disco to mark the anniversary.Eurovision victory turned ABBA into a pop juggernaut, by far the most successful band to win the pan-continental music contest, which will ho...

Glass Animals return this summer with a new album, each song exploring a ‘different side of love’

5Apr

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Glass Animals return this summer with a new album, each song exploring a ‘different side of love’

NEW YORK -- Glass Animals' latest album was born thanks to a massive storm, a house on a cliff and an existential crisis. What emerged from that? A 10-track collection exploring love.The indie-pop band's frontman, songwriter and producer Dave Bayley found himself in an Airbnb house high on stilts below Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, alone, sick with fever and wondering about Glass Animals' place in the universe.Then came a powerful storm: Trees tumbling down the hill, roads flooded and his rented house perched precariously. “My existential crisis went to the next level,” Bayley says, laughing.But in the dazed calm that followed, Bayley saw people emerge from the storm and embrace — families, couples, friends, neighbors. “I felt like I was sitting in space in this house, looking down on ...

Paul McCartney praises Beyoncé’s “magnificent” version of “Blackbird” in new album

4Apr

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Paul McCartney praises Beyoncé’s “magnificent” version of “Blackbird” in new album

Beatles legend Paul McCartney's praised Beyoncé's cover of the band's song "Blackbird," saying that it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired him in the first place.Last week, Beyoncé released "Cowboy Carter," a 27-track country album that bends the genre. In it she included "Blackbiird," which was originally written by McCartney in 1969 and included in the band's double album "The Beatles.""I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the song in the first place," McCartney said in an Instagram post, on Thursday. "I think Beyoncé has done a fab version and would urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out. You are going to love it!" The 81-year-old rocker went on t...

Hits for sale: Notable artists who have had their music catalogs sell for big money

4Apr

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Hits for sale: Notable artists who have had their music catalogs sell for big money

On Thursday, it was announced that American rock band Kiss had sold their catalog, brand name and IP to Swedish company Pophouse Entertainment Group in a deal estimated to be over $300 million. They're the latest to participate in an ongoing trend of blockbuster acts and their rights holders inking deals to sell their back-catalogs, often for impressive sums.It's big business — especially considering that two-thirds of all music streamed is made up of catalog music, and streaming accounts for 84% of all music industry revenue. Not every artist disclosed the amounts involved but some deals have been estimated at as much as half a billion dollars. (A figure that could be eclipsed when the Michael Jackson estate sells the singer's catalog.)Let's take a look at some notable cases.The singer k...

Country star Megan Moroney talks CMT Music Awards nominations

4Apr

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Country star Megan Moroney talks CMT Music Awards nominations

Country star Megan Moroney talks CMT Music Awards nominations - CBS News Watch CBS News Country star Megan Moroney joins "CBS Mornings" ahead of the CMT Music Awards after receiving three nominations. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

4Apr

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Kiss sells catalog, brand name and IP. Gene Simmons assures fans it is a ‘collaboration’

It’s never really the end of the road for Kiss. The hard rock quartet have sold their catalog, brand name and IP to Swedish company Pophouse Entertainment Group in a deal estimated to be over $300 million, it was announced Thursday.This isn't the first time Kiss has partnered with Pophouse, which was co-founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus. When the band's current lineup — founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons as well as guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer — took the stage at the final night of their farewell tour in December at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden, they ended by revealing digitized avatars of themselves. The cutting-edge technology was created by George Lucas’ special-effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, in partnership with Pophouse. The two compa...

Bailey Zimmerman talks nontraditional way he broke into music business ahead of CMT Awards

4Apr

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Bailey Zimmerman talks nontraditional way he broke into music business ahead of CMT Awards

Bailey Zimmerman talks nontraditional way he broke into music business ahead of CMT Awards - CBS News Watch CBS News Bailey Zimmerman will perform at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday. Zimmerman, who is nominated for an award, took a nontraditional path to breaking into the music business. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On