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Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis has been found guilty of orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996. The jury found Davis guilty of one count of murder with a deadly weapon in a drive-by attack in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours after a week long trial in Vegas. Davis said he would appeal after the verdict was read out in court, according to BBC News. Shakur was gunned down after a car drove alongside him and opened fire as he travelled from a Mike Tyson boxing match. He died from his injuries…

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the destruction of many musicians’ livelihood during the early years of this decade, but Davachi—who was an early adopter of Bandcamp Friday, releasing a remarkable run of EPs in 2020—points to another detrimental effect in a recent interview with Bandcamp Daily. “It’s gotten so much worse, this need for immediacy and digestibility,” she said, explaining why her works this decade have grown longer. “I was naturally leaning in those directions, but since Covid, I’ve done it more intentionally.”That might explain why she’s chosen to stitch all these recent commissions back to back rather than allowing…

Kacey Musgraves once again paid tribute to Dolly Parton during her Middle of Nowhere Tour. During her show at Madison Square Garden in New York on Monday night, Musgraves paused the concert to remember the beloved country superstar a week after her death at 80. “I’m not over it, and I’m never gonna be over it,” Musgraves told the packed venue as images of Parton were shared on a large screen above the stage. “The world definitely lost a light, and it’s hard for me to talk about. And I know how much Dolly meant to everybody also in this room.…

Sometime during the last dozen years, or after the Afghan Whigs consecrated their second iteration with 2014’s Do to the Beast, Greg Dulli seems to have realized his band’s sound was no longer shocking. A quarter-century earlier, the Cincinnatians were one of the first non-Seattle bands signed to Sub Pop, catalyzing waves of next-Nirvana hubbub. But they were always the American cousins of the Bad Seeds, pulling, to paraphrase Dulli from a 1993 interview, the guts out of soul to make bludgeoning, romantic, and depraved rock ’n’ roll. They didn’t just cover the Supremes and Al Green on 1992’s Uptown…

In hindsight, the unfinished nature of “Ceilings” lent itself well to an overhaul. Not every pairing offers the same possibilities. Faye Webster discards the Police pastiche of “I Care” for a comfier, bossa nova-inflected pop-rock stroll. But the text is so garishly sarcastic that Webster—one of our finest working ironists—can’t quite finesse her way in. Julien Baker and Mustafa are similarly stranded by “Time Is Happening,” a downcast slab of pop-punk that they’ve reworked as a maudlin slowcore duet. No stranger to spinning lyrical straw into pop gold, superstar emeritus and ball-knower Elton John recorded “Seein’ Stars” as a duet,…

Water, California, doesn’t exist on any map that I’m aware of. At least, I can’t find any place by that name—neither town, nor burg, nor suburb, nor metropolis. But thanks to a brief, breezy new album by Los Angeles’ Daniel Memmi, aka Donatell, I have a good idea of what Water might be like if it did exist: a city of perpetual dusk, where the glow of sodium-vapor streetlights slices through slatted blinds, and where the streets are always empty—save, perhaps, for the occasional car gliding noiselessly past living rooms stained blue with the nightly news.If Italo Calvino had dreamed…

The KPop Demon Hunters song was the most requested Kellyoke, said Clarkson’s team After seven seasons, The Kelly Clarkson Show has come to an end. The host delivered a sensational rendition of “Golden” for the occasion, the Oscar-winning hit song from KPop Demon Hunters. On social media, Kelly Clarkson’s team said that it was the “most requested Kellyoke EVER!” Clarkson sailed through the track’s high notes, with many fans online remarking on the singer’s powerhouse vocals. “She did it in the original key like it’s nothing! Kelly is truly a superhuman vocalist and the true American Idol,” wrote one commenter…

A Las Vegas jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, guilty of arranging the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before delivering the verdict.The case originates in May 1996 when Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, allegedly assaulted Trevon “Tray” Lane, an associate of Death Row Records boss Suge Knight, at a shoe store. On September 7, after a boxing match in Las Vegas, Lane told Shakur he saw Anderson in the lobby of the MGM Grand. Shakur then led an assault on Anderson captured by security cameras, before departing with Knight…

The former Compton gang leader charged with orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur was convicted by a Las Vegas jury on Monday, marking a long-awaited verdict in one of the most notorious unsolved killings in music history. The jurors needed only a few hours to return their verdict against Duane “Keffe D” Davis. His sentencing is scheduled for October 13, where he will face up to life in prison, per the New York Times. Shortly after hearing the verdict, Shakur’s sister, Sekyiwa, embraced a man seated behind her and wiped her eyes with a tissue,…

Dolly Parton has been laid to rest following a private funeral, her family has confirmed. The country star died aged 80 last Tuesday (August 25), with her representatives later confirming that it followed a “brief battle with cancer”. Her niece Lainey Parton confirmed on Instagram on Saturday (August 29) that the singer had been laid to rest the previous day. “This is a really hard post for me to make,” she began. “I wanted to wait until after my granny was laid to rest yesterday before I tried to put any of this into words.” Lainey, who affectionately referred to Parton as her “Aunt…