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Kacey Musgraves sure knows how to have a fun night in Nashville.
The sassy Grammy-winner dressed up as Ronnie Dunn on Saturday night (3/22), complete with a goatee and tattoos, and sat in at Robert’s Western World for an unannounced performance of “Neon Moon" to an intimate audience.
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Charlotte Sands, who has been writing songs since she was nine, broke through in 2022 with the standalone single, “Dress,” which spent more than 15 weeks on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart and earned her the Breakthrough Artist award at the Heavy Music Awards in London.
Since then she has released two LP albums, can we start over? (2024) and Satellite (March 6, 2026), along with multiple EPs. The most recent singles are “HUSH,” “neck deep” and “Afterlife.”
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Noah Kahan surprised an Austin audience at SXSW on Monday (3/16) with a stripped-down acoustic set of eight tunes.
In town to bring attention to his Netflix documentary, Noah Kahan: Out of Body which starts streaming next month, he was also there to promote his forthcoming LP, The Great Divide and the tour that will support it.
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Soulidified is a pop and R&B quartet formed in 2025 on Netflix’s Building the Band, a competition built around vocals rather than image.
Malik Heard, Landon Boyce, Shade Jenifer, and Bradley Rittmann selected solely from what they heard in isolation booths.
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Kanye West, or Ye as he likes to be called now, will perform two nights at the enormous SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California next month.
For various reasons Ye has only had three concerts in the US since February 2022.
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You oughta know by now that SXSW has a long history of guest appearances and one-of-a-kind collabs.
So when attendees of this year's music festival saw that St. Vincent was doing a DJ set on the same bill as Alanis Morissette at the world famous Stubb's on Saturday (3/14), they should have assumed something special could have been in the works.
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Grammy-winning Rosalía used the opening night of the LUX Tour on Monday (3/16) at LDLC Arena in Décines-Charpieu, France, to introduce a large portion of her new album live for the first time.
Born in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Spain, and trained in flamenco at the Catalonia College of Music, Rosalía's 2022 album Motomami reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200, one of the highest-charting Spanish-language albums by a female artist at the time.
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FKA twigs is so prolific that while kicking off her Body High Tour in Miami on Friday, (3/14), which one would think is to help support her most recent album, EUSEXUA Afterglow, she also busted out with several new additional unreleased songs.
The 5,500 fans at Factory Town also watched as she danced, sang, an performed in a way that's beautifully unique to her, and she ended the night with some pole work.
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Sabrina Carpenter headlined opening night (3/15) of Lollapalooza Chile, by debuting a new tune, arresting horsegiirL, and returning to stage for her first proper show in nearly four months.
The giant festival audience were appreciative and prepared.
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The 2026 Oscars last night (3/15) was memorable for many reasons including the fact Sinners become the most-nominated film in Academy Awards history with 16 nominations.
Many of the milestones involved women. On Sunday, filmmaker Autumn Durald Arkapaw become the first woman to an Oscar for Cinematography in the Academy's 98-year history. Amy Madigan set the longest gap between nominations and a win at 37 years between nominations. Jessie Buckley becoming the first Irish winner of Actress in a Leading Role.
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South Korea took home its first golden Oscar in the Best Original Song category when “Golden,” from the animated feature KPop Demon Hunters.
The songwriting team of EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park were awarded the trophies for the tune that was performed by the fictional girl group HUNTR/X in the Netflix film and sung by EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami
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The majestic and historic Slane Castle sits on a hill above the River Boyne in County Meath, Ireland, about 30 miles away from Dublin.
The current Georgian mansion was built in 1785 by the Conyngham family who replaced an earlier fortified structure that had stood on the estate since the 15th century.
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