For the past four years or so, the story has been that pop music is dying, comatose, or at the very least, suffering a yearslong debilitating hangover. In 2017, rap overtook pop;2018 killed the pop star. Last year around this time, hip-hop dominated our midyear rankings of the biggest albums. …
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Queen Latifah was the Lifetime Achievement Award honoree at this year’s BET Awards. To commemorate her pioneering work for generations of female rappers to follow, four of her acolytes took the stage Sunday night to perform a medley of the Queen’s biggest hits. Rapsody kicked things off with “Ladies First,” …
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Diana Ross’ music has taken in many stages: the Supremes, early solo hits, Lady Sings the Blues. But her late-Seventies dance hits remain some of her most beloved work. And apparently, Ross herself seems to agree — at least judging by “Thank You,” the first single from her upcoming comeback …
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of experimental rock band Liars and, for frontman Angus Andrew, their upcoming 10th album, The Apple Drop, out August 6th, is indicative of their journey. “[Working on this record] let me re-imagine the whole trajectory of what Liars has been,” he tells Rolling Stone. …
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Eric Clapton is returning to the road in September for an eight-city run of North American shows. It kicks off September 13th at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, and wraps up September 26th at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. According to a press release, these will be …
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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the 1996 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Songs and Music From She’s the One, and his estate is celebrating with the release of a reimagined version of the LP they’re calling Angel Dream (Songs and Music from the Motion Picture She’s the …
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Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen virtually staged the television debut of their new single “Like I Used To” on Tuesday’s Tonight Show. Performing together from Los Angeles’ Zebulon, the two singers and their backing band delivered their recently released track, the result of a year-long collaboration. “Even though we …
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Lil Baby and Lil Durk‘s collaborative album The Voice of the Heroes rises to Number One on the Apple Music Pre-Add Chart, seeing more Pre-Adds during the week leading up to its June 4th release than any other album on the platform. Pre-adds allow listeners to queue up an album …
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Nelly Furtado is marking the 15th anniversary of her hit album Loose with a digital reissue featuring a selection of rare remixes and bonus tracks. The set is out Friday, June 4th. Released in 2006, Loose marked Furtado’s third album, following her 2000 breakout debut Whoa, Nelly! (featuring the hit …
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Andra Day, Mavis Staples, and Wynton Marsalis have been tapped to perform at the 2021 Newport Jazz festival, which will take place July 30th through August 1st at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island. The lineup also features Khruangbin, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Yola, Cory Wong, Makaya …
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