The Strokes kicked off 2020 with a brand new song, which the New York band performed during a show in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve. The track, which is titled “Ode to the Mets,” according to Stereogum, is apparently on an upcoming new album due out this year. Frontman Julian …
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A-ha has unveiled a 4k restoration of their revolutionary rotoscoped video for their Eighties smash “Take on Me.” A-ha famously released two versions of “Take on Me” and two videos for the song. The first arrived in 1984, and the second appeared on the Norwegian outfit’s 1985 debut album, Hunting …
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Mac DeMarco marked Christmas with a no-frills rendition of the holiday staple, “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” On YouTube, DeMarco said he recorded the song Wednesday, December 25th, at his own Jizz Jazz studios. The cover moves with a delightful, stripped-down swing as DeMarco croons the tune over a …
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Dua Lipa joined host Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 this week to talk her upcoming album,Future Nostalgia, and her sudden rise to fame with her hit single from 2017, “New Rules.” “Maybe the first time I was like, ‘Oh, something’s happening,’ was when I played Glastonbury,” the British …
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Juice WRLD‘s mother, Carmella Wallace, touched on her son’s struggles with addiction in her first statement since the rapper, whose real name was Jarad Higgins, died after suffering a seizure at Chicago’s Midway Airport Sunday morning. “We loved Jarad with all of our hearts and cannot believe our time with …
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The musical legacy of legendary soul label Stax Records will be explored in a limited edition eight-LP box set from record subscription service Vinyl Me, Please. VMP Anthology: The Story of Stax Records features eight albums from the Memphis label’s golden period of 1957 to 1975, with LPs from Otis …
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Dove Cameron is out with “Out of Touch,” her fourth new song this year and the first she recorded for this slate of tracks. Above a mellow, mid-tempo guitar riff, Cameron sings about recovering from a tiff with her lover and how she hopes to reconcile. She wants this person …
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In November, Billie Eilish and her brother-producer Finneas O’Connell performed an acoustic set at Jack White’s Third Man Records for a small group of family, friends and fans. Now, that performance is coming to vinyl. An LP of Eilish’s acoustic set will be released to Third Man record stores in …
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The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli unveiled a scorching new song, “Pantomima” — the first release from his debut solo album under his own name. Random Desire is out February 21st via Royal Cream/BMG. “Pantomima” opens with a strong bass line, soft hi-hat taps and a prickly guitar lick that soon …
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Post Malone‘s “Circles” returned to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songschart this week thanks to 15.9 million streams. Malone’s single, which preceded his hit album Hollywood’s Bleeding, previously enjoyed four weeks on top of the RS 100 in September. Malone’s victory was a narrow one: Arizona Zervas’ …
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