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Following up Kanye West and Paul McCartney's "Only One" collaboration earlier this month, Rihanna has released a new duet track with the two musicians. "FourFiveSeconds" features vocal from Rih and Kanye, with Paul McCartney on guitar.
Get the single "FiveFourSeconds" on iTunes by clicking the photo above.
Update 2/3: The video for "FourFiveSeconds" has premiered on Rihanna's Vevo account. See it below:
Garth Brooks at his press conference at the TD Garden on January 22nd, 2015 (Benjamin Esakof/Roman's Rap-Up).
Following his retirement 14 years ago, Country-Legend Garth Brooks is making a comeback into the music scene by embarking on yet another World Tour. At a press conference prior to his show in Boston at the TD Garden, Brooks talked about his return to touring, and differences between country music now and when he first started, among other topics. See a clip from the press conference below:
Following Brooks' press conference, we caught up with the singer for a brief one-on-one interview:
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Summer is only a few months away, which means time for tour announcements!
Industry heavyweights Fall Out Boy and Wiz Khalifa announced that they're embarking on a joint 2015 Summer Tour. Dubbed the "Boys of Zummer Tour," the trek will take the artists to over 40 North American cities beginning on June 10th in New Jersey.
See if the "Boys of Zummer Tour" will be coming to a city near you below:
Wednesday, June 10, Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
Saturday, June 13, Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
Sunday, June 14, Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center
Tuesday, June 16, Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
Wednesday, June 17, Toronto, ON - Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Thursday, June 18, Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Saturday, June 20,** Bangor, ME - Darling's Waterfront Pavilion
Tuesday, June 23, Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Wednesday, June 24, Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Friday, June 26, Hartford, CT - XFINITY Theatre
Saturday, June 27, Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Sunday, June 28, Virginia Beach, VA - Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
Tuesday, June 30, Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
Wednesday, July 1, Noblesville, IN - Klipsch Music Center
Thursday, July 2, Burgettstown, PA - First Niagara Pavilion
Friday, July 3, Hershey, PA - Giant Center
Saturday, July 4, Scranton, PA - The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
Friday, July 10, Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
Saturday, July 11, Tinley Park, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Sunday, July 12, Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
Tuesday, July 14, St. Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Wednesday, July 15, Columbus, OH - LC Pavilion
Friday, July 17, Atlanta, GA - Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood
Saturday, July 18, Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
Sunday, July 19, Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion
Tuesday, July 21, Bonner Springs, KS - Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
Wednesday, July 22, Tulsa, OK - BOK Center
Saturday, July 25, Dallas, TX - Gexa Energy Pavilion
Sunday, July 26, Austin, TX - Austin360 Amphitheater
Tuesday, July 28, Albuquerque, - NM Isleta Amphitheater
Wednesday, July 29, Denver, CO - Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
Thursday, July 30, Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
Saturday, August 1, Ridgefield, WA - Amphitheater Northwest
Sunday, August 2, Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheater
Tuesday, August 4, San Francisco - Bay Area Venue TBD
Wednesday, August 5, Sacramento, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheater
Friday, August 7, Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay Events Center
Saturday, August 8, Chula Vista, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Monday, August 10, Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
YG performing in Boston, MA on January 12th, 2015 (Benjamin Esakof/Roman's Rap-Up).
Have you ever been to a concert where the singer/rapper entered the stage riding a gold tricycle? Didn't think so.
That's what happened Monday night when YG brought some West Coast energy to the House of Blues in Boston. Check out the below gallery for photos from the show:
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If you've been on any social media account in the last six months, chances are you're familiar with these two stars. With millions of followers on Vine, Twitter and more, Jack Gilinsky and Jack Johnson (a.k.a Jack & Jack) are charting their way to a successful career in the music industry and beyond. Only in their late teens, Jack & Jack finished off 2014 big, attending the American Music Awards and performing for a sold out crowd at an arena in their home town of Omaha, Nebraska.
Jack & Jack called into Roman's Rap-Up to discuss their HUGE plans for 2015, along with revealing to us something that none of their fans know about them and more. Read/listen to the interview below:
Roman's Rap-Up: You had an absolutely insane 2014, between going to the iHeartRadio Music Festival, American Music Awards, having a sold out show in your home town, not to mention having millions of followers on every social media account. What’s all this huge success been like?
Jack J: 2014 was just unexplainable, it was definitely the best year of my life so far.
Jack G: It was totally unexpected. It just started on an app called “Vine” and we were making funny videos to show our friends and what not, and it just kind of caught on... we never expected any of this. We’re just really grateful for all of this.
Roman's Rap-Up: How did you guys get started making Vines?
Jack J: It was just out of boredom one summer day in Summer 2013. It was the [time] between our Junior and Senior year in High School. We were just totally bored and doing the same old stuff every day. We’re from Omaha, Nebraska so there aren't a lot of extracurricular things to do necessarily during the summertime for kids. It was a way for us to express our humor and you know, a few people in our city started laughing at our videos. It just started spreading. We didn’t expect it to be what it was, we weren’t trying to necessarily become “Vine Famous” when we started, but, I mean that ended up happening which is pretty cool. We couldn't be more grateful for all the support we’ve gotten from everybody.
Roman's Rap-Up: How did you guys meet? Have you always known each other?
Jack J: Yeah we’ve known each other since before the summer before Kindergarten.
Jack G: I was 4 and Jack J was 5 and I mean immediately when you meet someone with your same name and your 4 and 5 years old, that’s a reason right there to become best friends. That’s exactly what happened and we actually happened to be wearing the same shirt with different colors on and it just happened so quick. I don’t know, it’s just amazing to see us being 4 and 5 and being best friends over having the same name and now nothing has changed really.
Roman's Rap-Up: How did you both get into music?
Jack G: We’ve always been into music, listening to every genre, finding out sounds we liked best, and you know we like every genre and stuff, but I would say Jack J influenced me in the music I listen to today because he is always on the internet, you know searching for new stuff, looking for what’s hot, who’s not really been heard of yet and he always shows me all these things that I remember back in 4th grade when we originally had this idea to start making music together and he showed me this rap that he wrote and he's like, “Man I want you to sing the chorus,” and I was like “what’s a chorus?” and he was like “It’s the thing that comes after every verse and it gets repeated after every verse." You know the song “Sexy Can I” by Ray J, well we made a parody of that song.
Jack J: So we’ve always been writing music, I mean it used to be more for like comedic purposes because that’s all we really knew as kids, being funny and goofy as 4th and 5th graders so I mean thats when we started writing song parodies to Top 40 songs at the time and putting them up on Youtube. You know, that was all fun, but when we started expanding this fan base we were like, “Why not share the music we know we can make with the world?” Now we have people to market to. We’ve always been really musical people. I mean, getting a following on Vine just gave us an opportunity to share it with the world.
