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Louie Rankin, the Jamaican-born dancehall artist, died on Monday morning in a car crash, the Associated Press reports. Rankin, born Leonard Ford, was in a vehicle that was struck by a transport truck in Ontario. Police say he was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. He was 61. Rankin began his recording career
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Nardwuar the Human Serviette—best known as simply Nardwuar—was honored by his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada over the weekend. The city named Sunday, September 29 Nardwuar day, in recognition of his three decades working in music. At the same event, the radio host and interviewer was also inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of
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Frank Ocean has discussed his creative headspace and new music plans in a cover story for W Magazine. An album influenced by “Detroit, Chicago, techno, house, French electronic” and other “iterations of nightlife” is in the works, he tells W’s Diane Solway, though there’s no news on a release date. Asked whether the record would
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Kanye West has announced a documentary about the making of his new album Jesus Is King. Kanye previewed the film at an event at Detroit’s Fox Theatre called “Jesus Is King: A Kanye West Experience,” and again at a similar event Saturday night at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. The documentary, which is also titled Jesus Is
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