The high-flying hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz released “Pistol On My Side,” a boisterous collaboration with Lil Wayne, on Friday. The track will appear on Swizz Beatz’s upcoming solo album, Poison,his first full-length since 2007. “Pistol on My Side” opens with an ostentatious orchestral passage, as if it’s the theme to …
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DA-dun-dun! Twenty years ago this October, a Louisiana-bred, not-quite 17-year-old Mickey Mouse Club vet named Britney Spears released her Swedish fireball of a debut single, “…Baby One More Time” – and the Nineties as we knew them were instantly over. On the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now …
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The 1975 have detailed their upcoming third album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, revealing the LP’s 15-song track list and impending release date. The album, the follow-up to 2016’s I Like it When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It, arrives November 30th and …
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Arin Ray, a former X Factor contestant turned R&B songwriter turned frontman, gets caught in a dangerous love triangle in his new video for “Communication.” “Communication” is far and away the best song on Ray’s debut album, Platinum Fire, which came out in March. It’s minimal — little more than …
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Ariana Grande paid tribute toAretha Franklin with a rendition of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” at the Queen of Soul’s funeral ceremony at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit on Friday. Grande the 1967 classic coolly, largely avoiding the melismatic displays that she is known for. The …
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“Hey Jude” sums up the Beatles’ turbulent summer of 1968 — a tribute to their friendship, right at the moment it was starting to fracture. The single was a smash as soon as they released it on August 26th — their biggest hit, topping the U.S. charts for nine weeks. …
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Brooklyn’s AfroPunk is, by many measures, the annual festival with the most continuously exceptional line-up of acts. This year’s slate is no different: Erykah Badu, Janelle Monáe, Pusha T and Miguel lead a superb collection of not only musicians and DJs from across genres but across the world as well. …
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Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators have released a bluesy new song, “Mind Your Manners,” from the group’s upcoming album Living the Dream. The Guns N’ Roses guitarist alternates between ragged power chords and squealing solos throughout the song; on the chorus, Kennedy layers his voice into stacked harmonies. …
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Smokey Robinson joined Aretha Franklin for a stunning rendition of the Robinson-penned “Ooo Baby Baby” on Soul Train in 1979. At the time, Franklin was going through a commercial drought: Her last Top 20 crossover hit was released in 1974, and she hadn’t had much success with the disco wave …
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The Breeders put out a crafty video for their song “Nervous Mary,” using puppets in place of frontwomen Kim and Kelley Deal. A fan of the group’s from Finland, Milla Risku, made the puppets, and the band shot the clip on a tour stop while in Nijmegan, Holland. People walk …
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