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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Justin Townes Earle has spent a dozen years–beginning with his 2007 debut E.P. Yuma–working towards the cheeky, New Testament-referencing title he bestows upon himself on his new album. From the beginning, Earle has been a relentlessly principled artist, fixed in his old-fashioned ways of what it means to be a …
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Pink kicked off her two-night stand in New York City on Tuesday night, the final U.S. dates of her Beautiful Trauma World Tour, with a special guest: country singer Chris Stapleton. The Nashville star emerged from the shadows near the end of the show to re-create their collaboration “Love Me …
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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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Michael Pelchat is one of more than 40 million Americans who are active on the immensely popular app TikTok; like many others, he uses it to make madcap dance videos set to music, searching for a new kind of fame. In February, he uploaded a snippet of a then-unknown song, …
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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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