On Friday, Nicki Minaj released Queen, her fourth studio album. An early standout — outside of the internet-breaking “Barbie Dreams” — is “Chun Swae,” the Swae Lee-featuring, Metro Boomin-produced track that anchors the album’s midpoint. It’s an off-kilter, sweet and swirling song, and its unique tone is set wholly by …
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Lizzo, James Bay, Chromeo and more remember the celebrity sightings that left them starstruck for the first time in a new video for Rolling Stone filmed at Lollapalooza. For Lizzo – the budding singer and rapper out of Minneapolis, Minnesota – that unforgettable moment came when she was in fifth …
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Over the last two years, this former Artist You Need to Know has been slowly emerging from the shadows while offering up brutally honest snapshots of young black womanhood in the 21st century. Her new EP – the first release since she revealed herself at June’s BET Awards – opens with a …
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Aphex Twin has released a jittery video for his new song “T69 Collapse,” which contains landscapes made of meat throbbing along with the track’s bleeps and bloops. It creates an effect that alternatively looks like Minecraft on acid and a kaleidoscopic astral constellation. The music itself is a barrage of …
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On Friday, 11 children between the ages of one and 15 years old were found living in extreme poverty on a remote compound outside Amalia, New Mexico, after the Taos County Sheriff’s Department was forwarded a note, believed to have written by someone inside, pleading, “We are starving and need …
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Last weekend, President Trumptweetedthat he is willing to shut down the federal government if Democrats don’t support his list of border security measures. It wasn’t clear at the time whether the president was serious, or whether this was just another one of his Twitter “opinions” that shouldn’t be taken literally. …
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Haley Heynderickx sings with warped-wood strength and radical tenderness. On her debut LP, released in March, she used that voice to give 2018 the war cry it needed, first singing, then howling, a statement that doubles as the album’s title:“I NEED TO START A GARDEN!” During a recent concert in …
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It’s only July and already 2018 has been another banner year for rock archaeology. The second half looks as promising, with the imminent Tom Petty retrospectiveAn American Treasure, and the certain return, in 50th-anniversary bells and whistles, of the Beatles’ White Album. But you probably need a break from all …
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Four months after Stephen Colbert joked on The Late Show about a nu-metal band’s crowdsourcing efforts to buy a new tour van, the late-night show host not only helped purchase the vehicle but also starred in the group’s new music video. Colbert first mentioned Louisville, Kentucky’s Flaw in a March …
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Proponents of a new effort to study marijuana on Capitol Hill believe their bill has the greatest chance of becoming law because it seeks to do something both relatively uncontroversial and completely novel: Remove politics from the debate over marijuana altogether, while putting the nation’s scientists in the driver’s seat. …
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