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Nashville's music industry has never given homegrown hip-hop the support it deserves, so the city's artists and entrepreneurs are creating their own institutions.

Hip-Hop In Nashville Is Making Its Own Way

1:39pm November 05, 2020

by Jewly Hight

Rap from Nashville isn't new, nor is the city's tendency to overlook the creators and entrepreneurs behind that music – despite country artists borrowing liberally from the genre over the past decade.

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A.B. Eastwood's Ever-Expanding Beat

1:17pm November 05, 2020

by Jewly Hight

The autodidact producer spent time learning in Florida, before returning to Nashville with a vision for elevating the entire city.

The BlackSon, center, photographed with several members of the BlackCity, Funky Tenn collective.

The BlackSon And BlackCity Are Generating 'Free Power'

12:19pm November 05, 2020

by Jewly Hight

After his older brother helped The BlackSon get his artistic career underway, the pair now find themselves living in a new "city."

The Songwriting Success Of Singing Rapper Tim Gent And Rapping Singer Bryant Taylorr

12:18pm November 05, 2020

by Jewly Hight

The pair have found and are maintaining a place for themselves in the professional songwriting world of Nashville.

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Non-Lullaby Does The Trick To Soothe Fussy Baby

6:14am November 05, 2020

Every parent finds ways to soothe a crying baby. One father posted a video online demonstrating how his infant stopped crying after hearing the song "Psychosocial" by Slipknot.

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Stevie Nicks' new 24 Karat Gold concert film foregrounds songs the artist says never got their due.

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Stevie Nicks On TikTok, Tom Petty And Claiming What's Yours

9:38pm November 04, 2020

An audacious concert film, an unwitting viral hit and a second Rock Hall induction: That's just the past two years for Nicks, who says that at 72 she's finally comfortable doing everything she wants.

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"I don't think they understand that I am not a patient man," Win Butler of Arcade Fire sings in "Generation A."

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Arcade Fire Returns With 2020's First Big Post-Election Protest Anthem

11:14am November 04, 2020

by Stephen Thompson

The band gave fans a rousing preview of "Generation A" as part of Stephen Colbert's election-night special.

Baron Wolman, photographed on Aug. 2, 2011 in New York for the release of his book The Rolling Stones Years.

Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone's First Staff Photographer, Dies At 83

7:43pm November 03, 2020

by Tom Moon

Wolman was the gifted eye behind countless iconic photographs of legendary artists, including Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Miles Davis and Johnny Cash, and the tumult of the first Woodstock.

Tracy Chapman performs on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Nov. 2, 2020.

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Tracy Chapman Returns To Sing Of 'Revolution' On The Eve Of Election Day

7:56am November 03, 2020

by Stephen Thompson

In her first TV performance since 2015, the singer-songwriter performs "Talkin' Bout a Revolution," the opening song from her classic 1988 debut.

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Brace Yourself: YouTube Has A New Most-Watched Video

6:36am November 03, 2020

"Baby Shark" now has well over 7 billion views. It just ended the reign of the previous record-holder: the video for the song "Despacito."

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