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    Sheryl Crow Says Music Biz Has Sold Out… Um, Rememba ‘All I Wanna Do?’ (See)

    Keith Girard
    Sheryl Crow slammed the music industry for forcing artists to be “brand oriented,” if they ever hope to succeed. But, hey, if it wasn’t for a bit of crass commercialism on her part, where would she be? Remember “All I Want to Do?” Crow’s breakthrough hit appeared on her 1994 debut album Tuesday Night Music Club and it’s about as commercial as you can get....
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    Courtney Love in the Hole to Uncle Sam To Tune of $500,000 in Back Taxes

    Keith Girard
    Courtney Love is in the hole. She reportedly owes Uncle Sam more than $500,000 in back taxes after paying off another unpaid tax bill from 2009. But don’t weep for her. She’s worth more than $150 million, despite a decade of reckless spending. Her fortune is based her ownership stake in late husband Kurt Cobain’s music publishing rights for his band Nirvana. She inherited it when Cobain committed suicide in 1994....
    CELEBRITIESMusic
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    Pink, Battling Flu, Cancels Second Concert on Doc’s Orders; Is She Anti-Vaccine?

    Keith Girard
    Pink, one of the hardest working singers in show business, is down with the flu and bagging her performance at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. The move came on doctor’s orders. Her whole family is battling the virus. What no flu shots? Pink, real name Alecia Beth Moore, doesn’t turn up on any celebrity list of anti-vacciners, but it was a little odd that daughter Willow also came down with chicken pox in 2013....
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    This Artist Just Passed 2 Billion Apple Music Streams and It’s Not Taylor Swift

    Keith Girard
    Taylor Swift may be everywhere with her music, but she’s yet to pass this landmark–2 billion Apple Music streams. That honor belongs to… Rihanna! The “Diamonds” singer has become the first female artist to achieve that goal. She hit it over the weekend. She crowed about it on social media. She posted a meme of a child dancing for joy and quipped “when I found out that I was the first female artist to cross 2 billion worldwide streams on Apple Music!”...
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    Ja Rule Partner Pleads Guilty to Bahamas Festival Fraud: Rapper Off the Hook

    Keith Girard
    Ja Rule was left with egg on his face after his high-end Bahamas festival went bust last year. But the rapper’s partner Billy McFarland appears to be taking the fall. He’s pleaded guilty to two fraud charges. Ja, real name Jeffrey Bruce Atkins, was neither arrested nor charged, but because of his notoriety he bore the brunt of the public relations fallout....
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    James Bay Second Album ‘Electric Light’ Coming; Can He Beat Sophomore Slump?

    Keith Girard
    James Bay’s 2015 debut album Chaos and the Calm was a chart-topper and he’ll find out whether he can escape the sophomore slump with the release of his second album Electric Light on May 18. “If I had to describe my first album visually it would probably be a flame, while this new album is about a real sonic and artistic evolution for me,” the 27-year-old singer said in a statement....
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    Jimmy Kimmel Mean Tweets: Who Looks Like Ball Sack With a Face? (See!)

    Keith Girard
    Jimmy Kimmel harvested some mean Tweets for the latest segment on his show and came up with some pointed doozies, all targeting popular musicians. Guess who could ruin a Denny’s meal, who looks like a ball sack, who looks like a ferret and who’s the Pottery Barn of Rap. Viewers had their pick to mix and match from Nick Jonas, Adam Levine, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Pink, Usher, Alice Cooper and other artists....
    Music

    Ariana Grande May Add Some Pop Star Glitz to Wicked on Broadway

    Keith Girard
    Ariana Grande, who began her career in 2008 in Broadway musical 13, could be making a return to the Great White Way as witch Elphaba in the long-running Disney hit Wicked. Jackie Burns is currently reprising the role. The 24-year-old pop star is reportedly in discussions to take on the role and seems an odds on favorite to take it. She has made no secret that she is a huge fan of the production....
    BROADWAYTheater