George Martin‘s AIR Studios currently sits in ruin on the Caribbean island of Montserrat thanks to the devastation of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and a series of volcano eruptions in the Nineties. But throughout the Eighties, everyone from the Rolling Stones and the Police to Elton John, Duran Duran, Dire …
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Grimes, Alanis Morissette, and Will.i.am will serve as judges on the upcoming reality singing series Alter Ego, Fox announced Friday. A spin on The Masked Singer concept — where celebrities perform wearing ostentatious costumes to hide their identity — Alter Ego will feature unknown singers performing as their “dream avatar” …
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Dan + Shay will release a new album, Good Things, on August 13th. The duo has previewed the release with the title track, “Good Things,” which is accompanied by a music video directed by Patrick Tracy. Good Things, produced by the band’s Dan Smyers, features 12 tracks, including “10,000 Hours,” …
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Music Box Films has unveiled a red band trailer for the upcoming film, EMA. Starring Mariana Di Girolamo and Gael García Bernal, the Spanish-language film centers on two “artistic free spirits in an experimental dance troupe whose lives are thrown into chaos when their son Polo is involved in a …
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This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s 2021 Hot List, in the July/August issue of the magazine. When Torrey Peters, 39, was writing her debut novel, Detransition, Baby, she imagined how “trans girls talk to each other” — about sex with bad men, jobs, babies — and used …
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Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, the Postal Service) has released a new collaboration with electronic producer Tycho. The song, titled “Only Love,” is a breezy track that has been a long time coming for the two artists. “I had been a fan of Ben’s work for a long time …
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Jason Isbell’s Ryman Auditorium residency will reestablish its place as a Nashville fall tradition in 2021 with eight nights of performances. After being forced to take 2020 off because of the pandemic, the singer-songwriter’s run of shows will return to the Ryman October 15th and stretch through October 24th. In …
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Olivia Rodrigo‘s Sour returned to Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart with 101 million streams. The 11-song set has now led the ranking on three different weeks — only one other album, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous, has matched that feat in 2021. After launching at Number …
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The video starts with an enthusiastic preteen girl stampeding onstage in a jewel-toned V-neck to an infectious pop beat, inexplicably holding a jumbo-sized pencil. “Dear Elle, he’s a lucky guy/I’m like gonna cry/I’ve got tears coming out of my nose,” she belts off-key, before she’s immediately followed by a bevy …
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Maluma has released a cameo-studded video for his new song “Sobrio,” the first official single from an upcoming album from the Latin singer. Directed by Jessy Terrero, the visual sees Maluma drowning his sorrows in a boozy onstage performance, along with more fantastical scenes of him pouring his heart out …
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