"We felt some kinship to the alt-rock scene of the early Nineties, but we wanted to do it on our own terms. We wanted to be able to love Hank Williams and love punk rock." While this sentiment from Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller isn't a strange concept today, it was still a relatively underground idea when he and his bandmates unleashed their raw-and-rowdy major label debut Too Far

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Nine Inch Nails appeared on the most recent episode of Twin Peaks: The Return, with Trent Reznor and company performing Not the Actual Events' "She's Gone Away" onstage for

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Oh, what a long night. The 2017 BET Awards, broadcast live on BET from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles Sunday night and hosted by a perpetually game Leslie Jones, clocked in at a full four hours – and not all of those heavily produced, star-studded seconds, minutes and hours flew by. Thankfully, the inspired, audience-approved performances (Migos, Khalid, Bruno Mars, a reunited

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Sometimes, after witnessing a work of art that truly challenges and moves us, it's easier to be flippant than philosophical. So let's get the flippancy out of our system right away. After all, following an hour of television like last night's episode of Twin Peaks, people are bound to have questions. "What did I just witness?", for example. Or "How did David Lynch and Mark Frost

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After receiving a Lifetime Achievement award at the 2017 BET Awards, New Edition proved their status as one of the most iconic, influential vocal groups in R&B history with a medley of songs. Prior to their acceptance speech, the young actors who played the group in their BET biopic performed their various hits and solo tracks for the audience.

An awkward transition during the

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Xscape made a triumphant return to music at the 2017 BET Awards with a powerful medley. The R&B vocal group announced their reunion earlier this year and will appear at the 2017 Essence Festival for their first show in nearly two decades.

Seated and in brightly sparkling outfits, the quartet began belting out a trio of their biggest Nineties hits. Starting with "Understanding," each

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Lorde scored her first Number One album as her second LP Melodrama topped the Billboard 200 in its debut week, leading the way on a shook-up Top 10 that featured six new

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Nile Rodgers revealed that he pulled a Prince-inspired song from Chic's upcoming new song because "it felt wrong."

"The last two times I saw Prince

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Q-Tip paid tribute to Mobb Deep's Prodigy on his Beats 1 radio show with a two-hour play list dedicated to the rapper's classic tracks. Prodigy died Tuesday at the age of 42.

"We lost a great

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The Barden Bellas reunite for one last farewell performance in the first trailer for Pitch Perfect 3, the latest comedy about Anna Kendrick's a cappella crew.

The new film finds the Bellas hitting hard times post-college, with the singers unable to parlay their music skills into careers: Rebel Wilson's Fat Amy is now a street performer called "Fat Amy Winehouse," while other

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Saturday night, tens of thousands of people filled San Bernardino's Glen Helen Amphitheater to hear Tool play a song about California sinking into the sea. While the band hasn't released a note of new music in 11 years, their audience has only snowballed, and the group used a date on their current tour to play their

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Seattle indie rockers the Head and the Heart are one of the best-traveled bands in America at the moment: in 2017 alone, they're playing Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and just about every other big-name festival in the country.

Those festivals might not even exist if the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival hadn't been a massive success. That festival, a

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California governor Jerry Brown denied parole for Manson Family member Bruce Davis, despite a parole board recommending the

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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivered a speech prior to Run the Jewels' Pyramid Stage set Saturday at the Glastonbury Festival.

"And if you see that far look at the wall that surrounds this wonderful festival. There’s a message on that wall for President Donald Trump," Corbyn said (

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Stephen Colbert hinted at a potential 2020 presidential run during an appearance on a Russian late-night TV show.

Colbert, who is visiting Moscow for an upcoming segment on The Late Show, told Evening Urgant after some vodka shots, "I am here to announce that I am considering a run for president

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On Sunday, a U.S. F/A-18E "Super Hornet" fighter aircraft shot down a Syrian SU-22, a Russian-made fighter-bomber. On Monday, Russia issued an unprecedented warning to the United States: "Any aircraft, including planes and drones belonging to the international coalition, operating west of the River Euphrates, will

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DJ Khaled recruits Travis Scott, Big Sean and Rick Ross for his

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Producer Metro Boomin teams with his What a Time to Be Alive collaborator Drake and Migos' Offset on a new track titled "No Complaints." The track premiered Friday as part of Drake's OVO Sound radio show on Beats 1.

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Game of Thrones may be leaving HBO following its eighth season, but another project from author George R.R. Martin will soon head to television: Syfy has ordered a pilot based on Martin's 1980 novella Nightflyers.

The story, which was previously adapted for a 1987 film, revolves around a team of scientists

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Miley Cyrus isn't big on labels that limit her ways of being. In a recent interview with ITV program Lorraine's host Ross King, the former Disney star opened up about how she's transformed as an artist over the last few years.

"I feel like I proved what I wanted to do," Cyrus said. "I feel like I have respect and

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