The house music great Moodymann quietly returned with a new track at the end of May. “I’ll Provide” revolves around a fantastically degraded low-end, a bass as garbled as it is groovy. Moodymann drops flirtatious lines from the Prince school of seduction: “I don’t know what you want from me/But …
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You don’t hear the 1986 Genesis song “Tonight Tonight Tonight” very often these days, but back then it was absolutely inescapable. This was a weird period of time where seemingly half the songs on the radio were either by Genesis or one of the many offshoot acts like Phil Collins, …
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On Wednesday night, incarcerated rapper Max B released his second newly recorded song in as many weeks. “Don’t Push Me” offers a singsong update of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s seminal single “The Message;” along with the recently released “Hold On,” the latest track will appear on Max B’s …
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Jay-Z will host a listening party for the upcoming posthumous Prince LP, Originals, during a June 6th Tidal event in Los Angeles. The streaming service will also offer its members the chance to attend celebrations elsewhere in the U.S., along with Spain, Poland, Brazil and other countries. The 15-track Originals, …
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Hip-hop is currently awash in luxury dad rap. In the last decade rap has seen an emergence men with unresolved daddy issues dealing with the mundane and costly realities of becoming fathers themselves. Jay-Z faced the thought of losing his family in the wake of infidelity on 4:44. Kanye West’s …
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Despite calls for Madonna to boycott Eurovision 2019 because of its location in Tel Aviv, Israel, the singer delivered what has been dubbed a controversial performance at the annual event Saturday. At the beginning of the night, the Madame X singer vaguely acknowledged the divisiveness of her appearance telling the …
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Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus play a pair of time traveling cowboys in the outrageous, cameo-filled new video for their “Old Town Road” remix. The Calmatic-directed clip opens with Lil Nas X and Cyrus running from the law with a fat bag of cash. After the duo make …
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Hatchie, a.k.a. Harriette Pilbeam, has released a new song “Obsessed,” accompanied by a video. The singer and bassist also announced North American fall tour dates. The third single for her upcoming debut album Keepsake, “Obsessed” pushes the singer further into shoegaze-y territory, with fuzzy guitar and searing lyrics reminiscent of …
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Rising K-pop group NCT 127 (a sub-group of the much larger NCT) stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden on Tuesday night to perform their song “Superhuman” and play a very fun game of Flinch with the late-night host. In Flinch, three members at a time stood behind a …
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Is Woodstock 50 proceeding? Depends who you ask. For the beleaguered three-day event, scheduled for August in Watkins Glen, New York, there was good news and iffy news on Wednesday. Woodstock LLC, the organizers of the festival, had filed a petition for an injunction against Dentsu Aegis, the Japanese advertising …
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