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Yahoo
16-05-2025
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Hear Tate McRae Join Morgan Wallen on Intimate Ballad ‘What I Want'
Morgan Wallen has dropped his new album, I'm the Problem, which includes the highly-discussed collaboration with Tate McRae. The crooning ballad sees the pair sharing vocals as they sing about a temporary relationship between two broken people. Wallen announced the duet last month, causing McRae's fans to criticize her decision to work with the country singer. 'If McRae had a country-pop pivot in mind, there were plenty of options that wouldn't place her next to one of country's most radioactive stars,' Rolling Stone wrote at the time. 'She's stepped into the hazard zone, but it's unlikely to completely derail her rising star — it might just bring her to an audience that doesn't care much about morals as long as the music is good. It'll have to run its course.' More from Rolling Stone Morgan Wallen Explains Abrupt 'SNL' Exit: 'I Was Just Ready to Go Home' Morgan Wallen Radio Coming to SiriusXM Ed Sheeran, Doja Cat, Burna Boy, Rosé, and More Feature on 'F1' Soundtrack I'm the Problem features 37 tracks, including collaborations with Post Malone, Eric Church, and Ernest. 'We recorded around 50 songs for this album and ended up cutting 13,' Wallen explained in a statement. 'I feel like we accomplished what I had in mind, and a huge shoutout to my close collaborators on this too. They came in ready and fired up every single day, and they inspire me as much as anything else.' In support of his new album, Wallen will hit the road for his I'm the Problem tour across North America and will kick things off in Houston, Texas, at NRG Stadium with Corey Kent and Koe Wetzel on June 20. Other special guests planned for the stadium run include Brooks & Dunn, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Gavin Adcock, Ella Langley, and Anne Wilson. McRae's latest LP, So Close to What, arrived earlier this year and went to No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. She is currently out on her global Miss Possessive Tour, which continues through September. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Yahoo
14-04-2025
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The Avett Brothers to perform at Minnesota State Fair Grandstand
The Avett Brothers will headline a Minnesota State Fair Grandstand show in 2025. The fair announced the folk band will also have special guests The Milk Carton Kids performing on Friday, Aug. 29. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 18 at 10 a.m. CT via the state fair website. Tickets prices range from $54 to $121.75 (party deck). The North Carolina-based band consists of brothers Scott and Seth Avett, along with Bob Crawford and Joe Kwon. Others who tour with the band include Mike Marsh, Tania Elizabeth and Bonnie Avett-Rini. The Avett Brothers last performed in Minnesota at the Xcel Energy Center on Oct. 24, 2024, as they co-headlined with Duluth-based Trampled by Turtles. The band was previously scheduled to perform as headliners at the 2021 Basilica Block Party before backing out two days prior due to a COVID-19 exposure. The Avett Brothers has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and hit mainstream waves in 2009 with their major label debut, "I And Love And You." The group's 2012 album, "The Carpenter," made it to the fourth spot on the Billboard Top 200. "Magpie And The Dandelion," released in 2013, reached No. 5 on the Billboard Top 200. The band's latest album, "The Third Gleam", debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Americana/Folk Albums chart, No. 1 Rock Albums, and No. 1 Vinyl Albums. Their single, 'Victory", hit No. 1 on the Americana Radio Singles Chart as well. It's marks the seventh Grandstand Series headlining show to be announced for the 2025 season. Others include:Atmosphere & Friends — Aug. 23 Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls — Aug. 24 The Happy Together Tour featuring The Turtles and others — Aug. 25 Def Leppard and Brother Cane — Aug. 26
Yahoo
30-03-2025
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Madison Beer Grabs Attention With Her Red Carpet Photo
Madison Beer had everyone seeing blue on Saturday evening in California. The 26-year-old singer and influencer, who has close to 40 million followers on Instagram, recently went viral for her outfit at the 2025 Billboard Women in Music Awards at the YouTube Theater on March 29 in Inglewood, California. Beer, who first went viral when she was a teenager, first gained notoriety when she published covers to songs by Justin Bieber and Adele. The New York native released her debut album, "Life Support," in 2021. She later released her 2023 album, "Silence Between Songs," in 2023. Both of Beer's albums landed on the Billboard Top 200. She's gone on tour internationally, too, while building up a massive fan base on social media. This weekend, Beer turned heads with her sizzling red carpet - well, the carpet was actually blue, matching her dress - photo on Saturday night. It's safe to say that Beer's fan base were big fans of her dress on Saturday evening. "Holy cow, i'm flabbergasted... she is so stunning !!!" one fan wrote. "She looks incredible," one fan added. "Looking absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!!" another fan wrote. "SHES INSANE," one fan added. Beer has posted some emotional messages following her concert stops, too. "A feeling that is hard to put into words - thank you forever and ever australia , this was a dream come true. < 3 i love you endlessly….. it was an honor to finally meet u <3333 i couldn't believe my eyes while looking out at you all. thank you from the bottom of my heart < 3 < 3," she wrote after leaving Australia. Beer, 26, is very much on the rise moving forward.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
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Rock band announced for NYS Fair
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Mark your calendars, another concert has been added to this year's New York State Fair lineup. Another concert announced for 2025 New York State Fair O.A.R., short for Of a Revolution will be at Suburban Park on Saturday, Aug. 23 at 8 p.m. The group is known for its songs like 'Shattered (Turn The Car Around),' 'Peace' 'Love And Memories,' 'That Was A Crazy Game of Poker,' and more. 'O.A.R. is a huge part of the soundtrack of an entire generation,' said Julie LaFave, Fair Director. According to the Fair, O.A.R. released back-to-back albums to be included in the Billboard Top 200 chart, including 'King,' which debuted at No. 12 and 'The Rockville LP,' which reached No. 13 on the Billboard Top 200 and vaulted to the top overall spot on the Billboard's Independent Album Chart. The band recently released its 10th studio album. O.A.R. continues to sell out live shows across the country and has also released six live albums from various shows. The Fair starts Wednesday, Aug. 20, and runs through Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1. Artist: Place: Time: Date: Cheap Trick Chevy Court 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21 Kidz Bop Chevy Court 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23 O.A.R Suburban Park 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23 Busta Rhymes Suburban Park 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24 Herman's Hermits Starring Peter Noone Chevy Court 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26 Sister Hazel Chevy Court 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26 Maddie & Tae Chevy Court 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28 Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Roy Ayers, Vibraphonist Who Injected Soul Into Jazz, Dies at 84
Roy Ayers, a vibraphonist who in the 1970s helped pioneer a new, funkier strain of jazz, becoming a touchstone for many artists who followed and one of the most sampled musicians by hip-hop artists, died on Tuesday in New York City. He was 84. His death was announced on his Facebook page. The announcement said he died after a long illness but did not specify a cause or say where in New York he died. In addition to being one of the acknowledged masters of the jazz vibraphone, Mr. Ayers was a leader in the movement that added electric instruments, rock and R&B rhythms, and a more soulful feel to jazz. He was also one of the more commercially successful jazz musicians of his generation. He released nearly four dozen albums, most notably 22 during his 12 years with Polydor Records. Twelve of his Polydor albums spent a collective 149 weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart. His composition 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine,' from a 1976 album of the same name, has been sampled nearly 200 times by artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg. The electric piano hook from 'Love,' on his first Polydor album, 'Ubiquity' — which introduced his group of the same name — was used in Deee-Lite's 1990 dance hit 'Groove Is in the Heart.' 'Roy Ayers is largely responsible for what we deem as 'neo-soul,'' the producer Adrian Younge, who collaborated with Mr. Ayers and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest in 2020 on the second album in the 'Jazz Is Dead' series, which showcases frequently sampled jazz musicians, told Clash magazine. 'His sound mixed with cosmic soul-jazz is really what created artists like Erykah Badu and Jill Scott. It was just that groove. 'That's not to say people around then weren't making music with a groove," he added, 'but he is definitely a pioneer.' Roy Edward Ayers Jr. was born on Sep. 12, 1940, in Los Angeles, one of four children, and the only son, of Roy and Ruby Ayers. His father was a scrap dealer and an amateur trombonist; his mother, a schoolteacher and piano tutor, gave Roy lessons from an early age. Speaking to the English newspaper The Nottingham Post in 2013, Mr. Ayers recalled that his first exposure to the vibraphone came via a giant of the instrument, when his parents took young Roy to see him perform: 'I got my first set of vibraphone mallets from Lionel Hampton when I was 5 years old, so I always wanted to be like Lionel Hampton. At one time, when I was very young, I was thinking I was going to be Lionel Hampton. My mother and father always played his music, so I was reared on Lionel Hampton.' Mr. Ayers studied music and music history with the celebrated instructor Samuel R. Browne, whose other students included Dexter Gordon and Charles Mingus, while attending Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles. He made his first records in the months after his 21st birthday, under the leadership of the saxophonists Curtis Amy and Vi Redd. He made his debut as a leader before he turned 23 with the aptly titled United Artists album 'West Coast Vibes.' Mr. Ayers received his first national exposure in 1966, when he joined the band of the flutist Herbie Mann, one of the more successful musicians in jazz at the time. He would go on to make 11 albums as a member of Mr. Mann's group for Atlantic Records and Mr. Mann's own label, Embryo. Mr. Mann helped him get a contract with Atlantic and produced his four albums for the label and Columbia Japan between 1967 and 1969. Those were instrumental albums very much in keeping with the post-bop style of the era, but the Laura Nyro-written title track of his 1968 album, 'Stoned Soul Picnic,' with its use of electric bass and a horn section emulating the sound of a church choir and electric bass, foretold Mr. Ayers's next period. In 1970, he formed the Roy Ayers Ubiquity, the band with which he would become a soul-jazz star. The name was suggested by his manager, Myrna Williams — and, he explained in a 2016 oral interview for website The HistoryMakers, the choice 'was wonderful, because I can tell everybody I can be everywhere at the same time.' After his contract with Atlantic ended, Mr. Ayers began a long and fruitful partnership with Polydor. He and his band released 11 albums from 1970 to 1977, with such evocative titles as 'Change Up the Groove' and 'Vibrations.' In addition to using electric instruments and producing grooves more suited to a dance floor than a jazz club, the Roy Ayers Ubiquity included vocals by Mr. Ayers. Some members of the group were featured on Mr. Ayers's soundtrack for the 1973 blaxploitation film 'Coffy,' starring Pam Grier. While the group was popular and would ultimately prove highly influential, it received a mixed reaction from critics. Reviewing a performance at the Village Vanguard in New York in December 1970, John S. Wilson of The New York Times wrote, 'Even though Mr. Ayers gets a hard, heavy tone from his vibraphone, his playing is often buried under the eruptive power of his accompaniment or is absorbed by the very similar sound of the electric piano.' Mr. Wilson went on to say that the fuzztone attachment Mr. Ayers had added to his vibes 'produces a rasping noise, which, in its amplified state, gives one an all too vivid idea of what it might be like to be locked in a closet with a troupe of demented bagpipers.' Much as Mr. Ayers's career had been nurtured by Mr. Mann, he would nurture his younger charges in Ubiquity; he also produced an album by the group, without him, in 1978. The keyboardist Philip Woo, who was part of the band in its later stages and continued to work with Mr. Ayers after Ubiquity's dissolution in the early 1980s, wrote in an email: 'Roy Ayers discovered me in Seattle in 1976 when I was 19. It is very unusual for an artist to pick up musicians while on tour, so I was very fortunate for this to happen. I was in local bands until then. I credit him for launching my career.' Three of Mr. Ayers's most significant albums were collaborations: with the trombonist Wayne Henderson, a founder of The Jazz Crusaders, in 1978 and 1980, and with the Afrobeat trailblazer Fela Kuti in 1980. That album, 'Music of Many Colors,' was recorded in Mr. Kuti's native Nigeria. Mr. Ayers was the inspiration for the 2022 memoir 'My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family,' by the musician and record producer Nabil Ayers, who wrote of growing up as Mr. Ayers's son even though Mr. Ayers played no role in raising him. Information on other survivors was not immediately available. In the last decades of his career, Mr. Ayers recorded for several different labels while staying loyal to the genre he had helped create. He also made guest appearances on albums by Rick James, Whitney Houston, George Benson, the rapper Guru and others. Discussing his legacy as an artist and entertainer with The HistoryMakers, Mr. Ayers said: 'There's an old saying, when you do what you do, you do it to others too. My legacy is that I can make everybody happy. Everybody, even the negative ones.'
