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Per chairman Taylor Swift, here's what we know about 'The Tortured Poets Department'

Per chairman Taylor Swift, here’s what we know about ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

LOS ANGELES — It's the dawn of a new era — a new Taylor Swift Era, that is. This week, the 14-time Grammy Award-winning artist will release her 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department," which she first announced at the Grammys in February. While accepting the pop vocal album award for "Midnights" — her first of two wins that night — Swift thanked her fans by divulging "a secret that ...

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Per chairman Taylor Swift, here’s what we know about ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

LOS ANGELES — It's the dawn of a new era — a new Taylor Swift Era, that is. This week, the 14-time Grammy Award-winning artist will release her 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department," which she first announced at the Grammys in February. While accepting the pop vocal album award for "Midnights" — her first of two wins that night — Swift thanked her fans by divulging "a secret that ...

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Toni Braxton reveals she was told to hide lupus diagnosis

Managers reportedly advised Toni Braxton against going public with her lupus diagnosis back in 2010. The 56-year-old singer-songwriter revealed in a recent sit-down that her handlers told her to hide her chronic illness out of fear it would impact her ability to get work.
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Two-time Grammy Award-winner coming to Knitting Factory on Wednesday

Tori Kelly may already be a two-time Grammy Award-winner with five studio albums in her discography, but the acclaimed singer-songwriter still feels like she is on a self-journey where she “continues to evolve and grow.” Kelly’s lifelong journey has not only inspired her freshly released self-titled album, “TORI,” but will bring her to Spokane for the first time as well.
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Album review: Beyoncé’s imagination is unlocked on the freewheeling ‘Cowboy Carter’

A costume, an accent, a narrative mode, a homecoming: For Beyoncé, country music is all that (and more) on “Cowboy Carter,” the pop superstar’s boot-scooting blowout of a new studio album. It’s as sprawling and as rigorous as we’ve come to expect from the most intellectually ambitious artist in music; it also can make you wonder — and this of course is easy for me to say — whether Beyoncé ...