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1 of 2 | Dolly Parton performs during an event celebrating the Kansas statewide expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in Overland Park, Kan. Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday, March 3, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn., at age 82. (AP...

(Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) Legendary pop/R&B vocalist Roberta Flack, who was launched to stardom in the early ’70s by the Grammy-winning hits “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” has died, according to a statement from her rep. No cause of...

The Eminem of this era was something else. These days his music is impressive on a technical level, but this diss towards Suge Knight, accusing him for Pac and biggies death, brings out visceral anger and other emotions that seem to have cooled down with age. It also shuts up the "Eminem never...

He beat up one of the most iconic female artists ever leave alone being accused of violence and sexual harassment by multiple women and he still somehow has a career. If he wasn't so furked up in the head he would have been remembered as one of the most important music artists of all time. God...

Nouhad Wadie Haddad (Arabic: نهاد وديع حداد, romanized: Nuhād Wadīʿ Ḥaddād, Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: [nʊˈhaːd waˈdiːʕ ħadˈdaːd]; born November 21, 1934[1][2][3][4]), known as Fairuz (Arabic: فيروز, romanized: Fayrūz, pronounced [fajˈruːz]),[a] is a Lebanese singer. She is widely considered...

This is "The Seekers" performing their hit song in the sixties. The song is elevated by Judith Durham's beautiful and haunting voice. Here again they perform the same song in 2013. Note that Judith's voice still sounds the same. It's amazing that after fifty years her voice still sounds as...

What a way to end the Nas-Hitboy collaboration.

I went to hip hop’s 50th birthday party, and all I got was a collection of insipid lists. And a new Sprite commercial. To be fair, there were also the usual puff pieces. The New York Times detailed “How Hip Hop Conquered the World.” But I’ve been with it almost every step of the way, and have...