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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Megan Thee Stallion will take on hosting duties at an awards show for the first time as she takes the lead role at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, the network announced Thursday. The artist previously hosted “Saturday Night Live” and co-hosted “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Megan is up for five awards herself during the VMAs, the most of any hip-hop artist, including best collaboration — a nom shared with GloRilla, with whom she’s been out on tour — and best hip-hop. Her MTV VMAs wins go back five years, when she first won best power anthem with the song “Hot Girl Summer.” In June, she released her third album, “Megan” — her first as an independent artist, on her own Hot Girl Productions label (with distribution by Warner Music Group).

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How the DNC Roll Call Went From Snooze to Sensation: DJ Cassidy on Lil Jon’s Cameo and the Playlist That Turned a Dull Tradition Into a Dance Party

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The reviews are in for DJ Cassidy‘s 75-minute DJ set Tuesday night… and they’re coming from unusual quarters. Said conservative commentator Meghan McCain: “I’m sorry but this #DNC2024 roll call with DJ Cassidy, themed state music and party/club atmosphere is blowing the RNC’s roll call out of the water.

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John Legend to Perform Prince Medley to Introduce Tim Walz at Democratic Convention

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic John Legend will pay tribute to vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s home state of Minnesota by performing a medley of Prince songs Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention. The news was first reported by Rolling Stone and the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Tribute Album for L.A. Musician Don Heffington to Feature Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple, John C. Reilly, Dave Alvin and More (EXCLUSIVE)

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Don Heffington, a beloved L.A. musician who died of leukemia in 2021, will be the subject of a charity tribute album coming out this fall, with featured artists including Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple, Buddy Miller, John C. Reilly, Dave Alvin and Watkins Family Hour.

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Jason Isbell to Perform at Opening Night of Democratic National Convention

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic On a night when President Joe Biden will be addressing the Democratic National Convention, another guest will be speaking up — or singing out — for the working Joe. Jason Isbell will be performing on the first night of the convention in Chicago, singing his working man’s anthem “Something More Than Free.” Although the DNC’s musical guests have so far not been announced in advance, Isbell’s impending appearance became clear to the world Sunday night via CNN.

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St. Vincent’s ‘All Born Screaming’ Tour Further Certifies Her as Rock’s Dark (but Oddly Cheerful) Queen: Concert Review

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic St. Vincent has done some fairly high-concept tours over the last decade. Going out in support of 2017’s “Masseduction” album, on her synth-pop-glorifying “Fear the Future Tour,” she put pop-art video projections on the big screen, obfuscating masks on her band members, and a lot of latex in the dressing room, to magnify her candy-colored dominatrix look.

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Taylor Swift’s ‘Poets’ Tops Album Chart for a 15th Week, as Chappell Roan Reaches a New High of No. 2

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Chappell Roan‘s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” continues its run as one of the pop phenomena of the year, reaching a new high of No. 2 on the Billboard 200, in results released Sunday. The album chart continues to be dominated, however, by Taylor Swift‘s “The Tortured Poets Department,” which hit the No.

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Shelby Lynne on Making a New Record When She Thought She Was Done, Working With an All-Star Female Creative Team, and How She Saved Her Own Life

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Long before Chappell Roan picked up the nickname of “your favorite singer’s favorite singer,” that was how people thought of Shelby Lynne, the Alabama-bred singer-songwriter who long ago reset the bar for voices that expressively explore the crossroads between country and soul. Her 2000 breakthrough album “I Am Shelby Lynne” helped win her the best new artist Grammy, though in truth she’d had a long career before that, making her way through the Nashville system from her teen years on, and certainly has been active since, pursuing an ever-more-independent career outside of any pop or country mainstream.

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Katy Perry to Receive Video Vanguard Award, Perform Hits Medley on MTV VMAs

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Katy Perry will be honored by MTV with this year’s VMAs Video Vanguard Award, the network announced Thursday, with the singer also set for a performance slot on the Sept. 11 Video Music Awards telecast. She’s set to perform some of her greatest hits — with her new single, “Lifetimes,” which came out last week, likely to be part of any medley.

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Greg Kihn, ‘Jeopardy’ and ‘Breakup Song’ Hitmaker, Dies at 75

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Greg Kihn, the rock singer-songwriter who scored with “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and helped definite an era of power pop in the 1980s, died Tuesday at age 75, his family announced in a statement. The cause of death was complications from Alzheimer’s disease. With the Greg Kihn Band, the singer reached No.

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Dead & Company Close Out 30-Night Sphere Run: What a Short, Stunning Trip It’s Been. Will They Be Back?

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic By all rights, the residency by Dead & Company at Sphere shouldn’t have seemed that historic. After all, they were the third band into the venue, following U2’s opening 40-show run, followed by Phish’s brief but sweet four-concert stop in Las Vegas, both of which received the appellation of “mind-blowing.” Creative ground had been broken, new bars had been set, and it’d been sufficiently established that no one would ever be tempted to call the venue “Dolan’s folly” again (if anyone had been brave enough to do so in the first place).

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VMAs: Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan to Perform as MTV Reschedules Show to Avoid Presidential Debate Conflict

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Who’s more “Hot to Go”? Chappell Roan or Kamala Harris? America will not have to make a choice. The two hottest young singers of the moment, Roan and Sabrina Carpenter, are among the first round of performers to be announced for the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.

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Charles R. Cross, Music Journalist Who Wrote Heralded Kurt Cobain Biography and Edited Seattle’s Alt-Weekly the Rocket, Dies at 67

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Charles R. Cross, a Seattle-based music journalist who edited the city’s preeminent alt-weekly, the Rocket, and penned bestselling biographies of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and other major rock figures, died Friday at age 67. “We are sorry to share that Charles Cross has passed,” the writer’s family said in a statement.

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Swifties and Deadheads — Separated at Birth? What the Eras Tour and Dead & Company’s Sphere Residency Share, as the Concert Phenomena of the Year

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The worlds of Swifties and Deadheads might not seem to have a great deal in common. There may not be that many music fans who’ve registered equal numbers of spins on their Spotify playlists for “Shakedown Street” and “Cornelia Street,” or “St.

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Laufey Feels Like She Was Born to Play the Hollywood Bowl, With a Rapturously Received Pop/Jazz/Classical Set: Concert Review

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic If a team of aesthetically attuned scientists was able to reverse-engineer the perfect Hollywood Bowl act, they might have come up with the 25-year-old Icelandic-Chinese-American sensation who goes by the singular name of Laufey. No one would actually think to come up with such an impossible checklist, but she fulfills it anyway: A chanteuse who would have seemed at home on the same stage in the 1950s, yet who appeals to a young demographic in the 2020s. A multi-instrumentalist with chops on electric guitar, piano and cello.

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Lauryn Hill Says U.S. Tour Was Called Off Due to Low Ticket Sales — Which She Attributes to Media Sensationalizing of Her Canceled Shows Last Year

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A day after a U.S. reunion tour for Lauryn Hill and the Fugees was canceled and tickets refunded without immediate explanation, the singer issued a statement late Wednesday giving her reasons for the outing being called off, attributing it to low ticket sales.

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Hozier’s New EP to Feature ‘Nobody’s Soldier,’ ‘July’ and a Bedouine Feature, ‘That You Are’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Hozier already has a single that has been among this year’s Song of the Summer contenders, “Too Sweet,” off the “Unheard” EP that he released back in March. Now, with a second EP due out next week, could he have a Song of the Fall in store, too? The artist announced on his social media Tuesday that his second EP of the year, “Unaired,” will be out Aug. 16.

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At a ‘Reefer Madness’ Reunion Concert, Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell and Other Cast Veterans Retell the Satirical Show’s History Via Signature Songs and Cut Numbers

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic If you were cataloging the signs of a stage musical that has had a robust life over a period of not just years but decades, here are two things that might be included on that list: A) The show engenders such a sense of family among those who’ve performed it that even members of casts from different times and places mix well together, and… B) You could practically create an entire alternate version of the musical just by doing a separate assemblage of the very good songs that were cut as the show went through different incarnations. Both these signposts came to the fore in “Reefer Madness: The Musical Reunion Concert,” a one-time performance bringing together actors and creatives who’ve been a part of different productions of the cult show “Reefer Madness” over the past quarter-century-plus.

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Lauryn Hill and the Fugees’ 2024 Tour Is Quietly Canceled, Three Days Before First Date

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A tour by Ms. Lauryn Hill and the Fugees set for late summer and fall has been canceled, with the dates removed from Ticketmaster and ticketholders receiving notices about receiving refunds late Tuesday. No reason was offered to fans for the cancellation in the refund notices that went out.

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Taylor Swift Leads MTV VMAs Nominations With 10, as Post Malone, Sabrina Carpenter, Ariana Grande and Eminem Also Get a Big Look

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Unsurprisingly in a year in which she has dominated all other comers in recorded music and the live sphere, Taylor Swift emerged as the leading nominee for MTV’s Video Music Awards, collecting 10 nominations in the competition for the 2024 spacemen. Post Malone followed close behind with nine nods, primarily for sharing Swift’s “Fortnight” nominations, as her featured guest on that hit. Sabrina Carpenter, Eminem and Ariana Grande tied for third place among VMAs finalists, with six nominations each.

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Shaun Martin, Grammy-Winning Musician Known for His Work With Snarky Puppy, Kirk Franklin and Erykah Badu, Dies at 45

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Shaun Martin, a multiple Grammy winner best known as a keyboard player for the jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy and a three-decade collaborator of gospel star Kirk Franklin, died Saturday at age 45. Martin had been under constant medical supervision since suffering a massive stroke in April 2023. In November, Franklin had posted a tribute hoping for Martin’s recovery against difficult odds, saying the musician was still “fighting for his life” and describing him at the time as “my right hand, my North Star, my musical collaborator for over 25 years.” Martin was also known for helping write and produce Erykah Badu‘s sophomore album, “Mama’s Gun,” as well as for being a member of Chaka Khan’s backing band, not to mention his role as a minister of music in one of Texas’ biggest churches.

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