Paisley Park has announced that it will hold a celebratory event for Prince on Wednesday, April 21st, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the artist’s death. “Prince’s passing remains incomprehensible to all of us,” Paisley Park executive director Alan Seiffert said in a statement. “We celebrate his life and legacy …
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On the fifth anniversary of Phife Dawg’s death, March 22nd, a new video has arrived for the rapper’s posthumous single, “Nutshell Part 2,” featuring Busta Rhymes and Redman. The video was directed by Tony Reames and features old footage of the late A Tribe Called Rapper spitting the spirited track …
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Days before the release of his new album Justice, Justin Bieber performed an intimate set for NPR‘s Tiny Desk series. Accompanied by We the Band, Bieber debuted “Peaches,” a sultry track he performed on keyboards. The set also included the Justice tracks “Holy” (the studio version features Chance the Rapper), “Hold On,” …
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Composer Emile Mosseri and Minari star Yeri Han have released a new live performance video for the acclaimed film’s original song, “Rain Song.” The simple, socially distanced clip has the feel of a visual collage as Mosseri builds the delicate song out of piano, acoustic guitar, and synthesizer. Han appears …
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Last month, Miley Cyrus performed a special concert as part of Super Bowl LV’s official pregame event in Tampa Bay, Florida. The event was one of the first live concerts of its size since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic last March, put on for an audience of vaccinated and …
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Andra Day evokes civil rights icon Angela Davis in the new visual for “Tigress and Tweed,” from The United States vs. Billie Holiday soundtrack. In the one-shot video, Day replicates Davis’ historic 1972 interview from a California State Prison cell, where she spoke about the Black Panthers, protests, and police …
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Janet Jackson will mark the 40th anniversary of her eponymous 1982 debut album with a two-part documentary that will simulcast on Lifetime and A&E, the networks announced on Wednesday. Tentatively titled Janet, the documentary is projected to premiere in early 2022. The pop icon, who serves as an executive producer …
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Japanese Breakfast‘s Michelle Zauner continues her busy year with the announcement of Jubilee, her third album, out June 4th. Zauner dropped the single “Be Sweet” Tuesday, featuring a hilarious self-directed video that stars Zauner and Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa Dabice as FBI agents. They work late nights, tracing maps and gripping …
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Chloe x Halle premiered the video for “Ungodly Hour” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday. The title track to their recent album, the video was directed by Alfred Marroquín and features the sibling duo in shiny blue bodysuits, hooked up to machinery and fluorescent lights. They’re later …
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Bright Eyes have dropped a somber cover of Vic Chestnutt’s “Flirted With You All My Life.” The rendition opens with mournful pedal steel and piano, as opposed to the original version’s drum intro. “I’ve flirted with you all my life/Even kissed you once or twice,” Conor Oberst sings. “And to …
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