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Carly Rae Jepsen’s Joyous Low-Stakes Rom-Com Continues Unfettered
The television landscape in this era of Peak TV comprises many overlapping tiers and ecosystems. Within this moment of seemingly infinite choice, there are genres -- dramas, comedies, talk shows,...
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Lady Antebellum, Citing Racial Sensitivity, Change Their Name To Lady A
The Nashville country trio Lady Antebellum have been around for well over a decade, and they've found huge success while using a name that most of us would consider to be questionable at best. Today,...
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Blues Singer Lady A Condemns Lady Antebellum’s Name Change
Yesterday, the Nashville country trio Lady Antebellum announced that they would be changing their name to "Lady A" due to the term antebellum's inescapable association with slavery and racism. The only...
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Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood Apologizes For His “Drunken Joke” Of A Band...
Recently, several music industry institutions have decided to change their names due to the renewed dialogue about racism in the wake of George Floyd's murder. Nashville country trio Lady Antebellum...
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Lady A, The Band, Sue Lady A, The Singer
Last month, the popular Nashville country trio Lady Antebellum announced that they were changing their name to Lady A due to the term antebellum's unfortunate association with slavery. Which was all...
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Lady A Responds To Lady A(ntebellum) Lawsuit
Yesterday, the Nashville country trio Lady A(ntebellum) filed a lawsuit against blues singer Lady A over their right to use the same name after they announced last month that they were changing it due...
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Lady A Explains Why Co-Existence With Country Band Will Not Work: “Lady...
After changing their name to Lady A for racial sensitivity reasons, the pop-country trio formerly known as Lady Antebellum then decided to sue a blues singer also named Lady A over their right to use...
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Watch Lady A Discuss Her Conflict With Lady Antebellum On Desus & Mero
Nashville pop-country band Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A last month. As they explained to their fans, they dropped the Antebellum because "we did not take into account the associations...
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Blues Singer Lady A Countersues Country Band Lady A For Trademark Infringement
The saga of Lady A vs. Lady Antebellum continues: As Rolling Stone reports, Lady A, the Seattle blues singer born Anita White, countersued Nashville pop-country band Lady A -- fka Lady Antebellum --...
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Battle Of The ‘00s Hard-Rock Bands
Change is inevitable. The clock ticks, the earth travels around the sun, we age and celebrate birthdays/anniversaries, and time marches on. But if you tab over to Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay...
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Edgy And Dull: 20 Covers Of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire,” Rated
A few weeks back, we premiered Low's cover of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire," and it was great (more on that below). It's their contribution to a forthcoming Springsteen tribute titled Dead Man's...
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The Week In Pop: Get Used To Calvin Harris Being The Biggest DJ In The World
Calvin Harris is the biggest DJ in the world. This is true in terms of dollars (he's Earth's highest-paid party-rocker, by an even larger margin than last year) and human bodies (he appeared to draw...
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The SpongeBob Musical Includes New Music By David Bowie, Dirty Projectors,...
SpongeBob SquarePants is making its way to Broadway. According to Entertainment Weekly, a musical based on the popular long-running Nickelodeon series will debut in June 2016 in Chicago, with a move to...
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MusiCares’ Lionel Richie Tribute Lines Up Stevie Wonder, Pharrell, Demi...
Lionel Richie is the latest legacy artist to be honored with the MusiCares Person Of The Year award -- last year's was Bob Dylan -- and the organization has just announced who will be performing at the...
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Corny Pop-Rap Will Never Die
Macklemore flopped. We won't have official figures until a few days from now, but This Unruly Mess I've Made is only projected to sell about 50,000 copies in its first week -- probably good for a top-5...
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Country Catch-Up: Rating The Genre’s Most Popular Albums Of 2016 So Far
Big wheels keep on turning. Like any self-sustaining music ecosystem, the country music industry continues to churn out hits all year round, and occasionally this column checks in on that world --...
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I Guess This Is Growing Up: Blink-182 Are Back For Mall Punk’s Classic Rock...
Hey you! Out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old: Everything you grew up on is classic rock now. It's something every generation has to grapple with, but like college, marriage, raising...
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Movie Musical Soundtracks Have The Charts Feeling Like La La Land
This is one of my more controversial views, a position so conservative some might call it retrograde, but in light of this past week’s events I'm feeling emboldened to revel in it: I thought La La Land...
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There’s Only One Way To Find Out If The Grammys Will Suck Again This Year
Remember last year when it seemed like the Grammys might turn out OK and then they sucked as usual? They will probably suck again this year! But damn, NARAS does a good job of getting my hopes up every...
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