Angel Olsen is standing on a rainy sidewalk in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, smoking a cigarette. “I’ve just had a really emotional day,” she says, staring at the Manhattan skyline across the river. “I cried a little bit. I feel OK now.” Olsen is preparing for the release of her new album, …
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Tyler Childers transformed the stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live into an intimate country venue with his performance of “All Your’n.” The musician, accompanied by a live band in front of a colorful nature-themed backdrop, took on the raw, emotive track, which comes off his recent album Country Squire. In the …
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It took less than 15 months for TikTok to commandeer the attention of the music industry. The platform combines a giant and still-growing user base with a vaunted algorithm that repeatedly discovers and elevates new music; it has already earned comparisons to YouTube, the world’s biggest streaming service. Major labels …
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Travis Scott‘s new single “Highest in the Room” debuted at Number One on the RS 100 with 45.5 million streams — more than twice as many as the Number Two single, Juice WRLD‘s “Bandit,” featuring Youngboy Never Broke Again. Scott also boosted sales of “Highest in the Room” by bundling …
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Queen forced President Donald Trump to remove a video from Twitter featuring the band’s 1977 hit “We Will Rock You” last week, Buzzfeed reports. Trump tweeted the video last Wednesday, October 9th, and it was unavailable on Twitter by Sunday, October 14th. The clip reportedly featured footage of Trump speaking …
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Bad Bunny followed in the footsteps of Kanye West by performing at the 2019 Pornhub Awards in Los Angeles. The Latin trap singer, who was the first performer announced at this year’s ceremony, appeared alone onstage against a revolving neon backdrop where he performed “200 MPH” from his 2018 debut …
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Fleetwood Mac‘s 12th album is both demented and debonair, familiar and foreign — a sprawling double LP that, like the Beatles’ White Album before it, reveled in its own messiness, jumbling together the work of three distinct songwriters. Singer Stevie Nicks and keyboardist Christine McVie carried the commercial weight on …
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Fish-eye lenses and 360-degree camera tricks flesh out Jason Aldean‘s new music video for “We Back.” Filmed at an Aldean tour stop, the clip shines a light on the Georgia native’s consistent drawing power as a live performer: there are wide shots of packed amphitheaters and up-close looks at passionate …
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Alessia Cara is a master at imitating other singers, which she has previously showcased several times before on The Tonight Show, including on the popular segment “Wheel of Impressions.”In a new segment, Jimmy Fallon tapped Cara to perform Billie Eilish‘s hit single “Bad Guy” while doing an impression of seven …
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Latin America has spawned countless musical movements in the 2010s, but in many ways, Chilean music has experienced its own distinct revolution. As Javiera Mena, Alex Anwandter, Gepe and Dënver ushered in a new era of South American indie-pop — loaded with roots revival, electronic wizardry, political discourse and more …
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