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It’s me again, your Breitbart editor with bad music takes. Though it’s not really a regular beat for us, I do like to reflect on good songs I’ve discovered through the year — and in this here 2018, the list is a little different.

French rapper Nick Conrad could be facing charges of hate speech after releasing a new song in which he advocated for the hanging of white people and the killing of white babies.

TEL AVIV – More than twenty thousand jubilant Israelis descended on Tel Aviv’s main square Monday night for a free victory concert by Netta Barzilai to celebrate her landslide triumph at the 63rd Eurovision song contest. 

A dissident reggaetón artist imprisoned after a Cuban government agent attacked him while using the internet has been placed in solitary confinement in prison and refused to eat or drink water for one week, his mother told the Miami-based news outlet Martí Noticias this week.

Neil Young came out swinging against Google and other technology companies in a blog post this weekend, explaining that tech giants have made it so hard for artists to make money that he’s not sure where the next great group of artists is going to come from.

Best Buy will stop selling music CDs, amid the growth of digital music streaming, despite the fact that the reailer used to be the most popular music seller in the United States.

Songwriters and publishers are set to receive increased royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, and other music streaming services, following a ruling.

A ten-hour long YouTube video consisting of nothing but pure white noise has received five copyright complaints since it was published.

Digital music streaming services now reportedly account for the majority of music consumption in Britain.

TEL AVIV – Radiohead kept it classy on a muggy Wednesday night in Tel Aviv, with the only reference to the vociferous BDS campaign being waged against them playing in the Jewish state coming from frontman Thom Yorke who muttered: “A lot of stuff was said about this, and in the end we played some music.”

“Bot Dylan,” an A.I. music composer, has created over 100,000 new folks songs after studying 23,000 tradition Irish tunes.

British rock band Radiohead has no intention of listening to Roger Waters and will go ahead as planned with a concert in Tel Aviv later this summer.

A Florida man has been arrested after he threatened McDonald’s staff because they were playing Christmas music and he demanded they play Muslim music instead.

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong invited a fan onstage to play guitar with him during a performance in Oakland on Saturday night, and paid a tribute to the 36 people who perished in the December 2 fire at the Oakland warehouse known as the “Ghost Ship.”

Leonard Cohen, rock music’s man of letters whose songs fused religious imagery with themes of redemption and sexual desire, earning him critical and popular acclaim, has died at age 82, a statement on his Facebook page said.

TEL AVIV – South African rap duo, Die Antwoord, is being pressured by the boycott Israel movement to cancel its upcoming concert in Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported.

As fans across the globe mourn the loss of Prince, who died suddenly Thursday at the age of 57 at his estate in Minnesota, many are taking comfort in the music he left behind.

President Barack Obama invited several entertainers to the White House for a “youth empowerment” program — including rapper Rick Ross, who was just indicted for assaulting and kidnapping two workers he caught throwing a party at his 235-acre Fayetteville, Georgia home.

During her set at the Coachella music festival Saturday night, Canadian songstress Grimes used a huge graphic of erstwhile Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders as a backdrop.

A man known in Turkey as the “Rockin’ Imam” has been denied permission to give a concert in Portugal by Turkey’s religious enforcement authority, the Diyanet. Imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer says his concert would have been “an important publicity opportunity” for Islam in the West.

After her anti-cop, politically charged Super Bowl halftime show, members of the New York Police Department are now demanding an apology from pop singer Beyoncé for her controversial performance.

Just when the world went back to ignoring Kanye West’s latest Twitter tantrum, the rapper continued his crass commentary by begging “white publications” to stop writing about “black music.”

In a video posted by PJ Media, Marco Rubio answers 46 rapid fire questions on multiple topics, including pop culture, cars, yoga, music, and the zombie apocalypse.

American pop superstar Beyonce will perform in Tel Aviv in early August as part of her new Formation tour, Hebrew media reported Thursday. She will be performing twice, both times at Yarkon Park, the reports said.

As first reported by Ynet, Sir Elton John is returning to Israel. Six years after his previous visit, one of the most successful pop artists in history will play one concert at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on May 26.

Just when you thought Pope Francis had no more surprises up his sleeve, he has released his first prog-rock album titled “Wake Up!”

In the wake of Friday’s Parisian terror attacks, which killed more than 120 people, U2 frontman Bono said Saturday his band did not pull out of a scheduled show.

The Cold War between the West, led by America, and the Communist bloc, led by the former Soviet Union, was a titanic struggle that spanned six decades. Its grinding permanence is now largely lost to the post-9/11 generation.

Tremaine Aldon Neverson, better known by his stage name as Trey “Trigga” Songz, is the latest Obama-supporting hip-hop artist to be targeted by the IRS for neglecting to pay his federal tax bill.

“Imagine for 15 years, you go to work, and everything that comes out of your mouth is something someone wrote for you to say,” actress Rose McGowan said in regards to her recent “awakening” as an artist. McGowan has released

On September 20, U2 canceled a concert in Stockholm after reports that an off-duty officer made it through security with a gun on his person.

“Life is a funny thing, you now,” says rock and roll icon Keith Richards in the trailer for his upcoming documentary. “Nobody wants to get old, but they don’t want to die young either.”

The video for Miley Cyrus’s latest single “Dooo It” dropped this week, and to say she really “does it,” would be an understatement.

Some themes obviously reflect his current mood in his presidency including “Nothing Even Matters” by Lauryn Hill, and “The Best Is Yet To Come” by Frank Sinatra. After beginning with an inexplicably jazzy version of the Sound Of Music’s “My Favorite Things,” the playlist predictably moves into Beyonce territory with Superpower followed by Van Morrison’s “Moon Dance.”

A lot has changed for rapper, producer, and music mogul Andre Young, better known as Dr. Dre, who said in the 2001 track “Forgot About Dre” alongside Eminem, “you won’t get a crumb from me, ‘cause I’m from the streets of Compton.”

Rocker Lenny Kravitz accidently introduced fans to a new member of his band at a show in Sweden Monday.