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Eddie Money, the big-voiced rock belter who had a string of huge hits in the ’70s and ’80s, has died. Money had recently announced that he’d been diagnosed with with stage 4 esophageal cancer. Variety reports that Money, according to a statement from his family, passed away this morning. He was 70. Eddie Money was born Edward Joseph Mahoney in Brooklyn, and he came from an Irish Catholic family...
On a steamy midsummer night at Charli XCX's L.A. home, a dance party is going down in her living room. "Gone," the funky third single on the English pop singer's new self-titled album, blasts from speakers that are near a naked mannequin by the fireplace. Instead of hosting a typical listening session at a studio or in a conference room at her label, Charli is throwing a house party at her fairytale-cottage-meets-Addams-Family-inspired...
British singer-songwriter Charli XCX is a different sort of pop princess. She's independent and infectious as hell, but she's also quirky, insightful, a major hit-writer who proudly keeps a foot planted in the underground. (You can read our September cover story on this very subject.) Charli first made a name for herself as a pop writer when Swedish duo Icona Pop’s “I Love It” landed...
