Americana trio the Lone Bellow have announced their new album Half Moon Light. Due in early 2020, the record finds the group reconvening to release their first LP since 2017’s Walk into a Storm. The band previews Half Moon Light with the song “Count on Me,” a message of reassurance …
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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, …
Read More »Everyone Is a Russian Asset
Hillary Clinton, not long ago the nominee of the Democratic Party, had some choice words about the state of American politics Friday. “I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the …
Read More »Did You Notice When TikTok Banned Explicit Lyrics?
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 …
Read More »Watch Tyler Childers Croon Love Song 'All Your'n' on 'Kimmel'
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 …
Read More »Of Course Amazon Is Putting on a Music Festival
While Spotify grapples with podcasts and Apple explores bundling albums with other entertainment, Amazon continues to barrel into the music business from entirely other directions. Weeks after throwing a somewhat absurdist concert for Prime Day and debuting high-resolution music streaming, Jeff Bezos’ conglomerate will put on an all-out music festival …
Read More »RS Charts: Travis Scott's 'Highest in the Room' Explodes to Number One
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 …
Read More »Queen Push Trump to Take Down Campaign Video Featuring 'We Will Rock You'
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 …
Read More »Watch Bad Bunny Perform '200 MPH' at Pornhub Awards
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 …
Read More »Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk': 10 Things You Didn't Know
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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