One song. That’s all Lil Nas X has in his repertoire. But it was all he needed to satisfy a jostling, anxious crowd who waited in the rain until nearly 1:00 a.m. at day one of Spotify‘s four-day CMA Fest takeover in Nashville to get a glimpse of the viral …
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Detroit indie rocker Stef Chura has released the fourth and final single to her sophomore album Midnight, which will be released this Friday. The video features Chura in a cheerleader uniform, playing her guitar in a school gym. “Dreaming of/Being nice/I projected you on a screen,” she sings against the …
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Sheryl Crow assembled an all-star crew for her new song, “Prove You Wrong,” with Stevie Nicks and Maren Morris. The track will appear on Crow’s new album of collaborations, Theads, out August 30th via Big Machine. Crow, Nicks and Morris unsurprisingly deliver a powerhouse vocal performance, trading lyrics and coming …
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David Crosby might not seem like the obvious candidate for an advice columnist. After all, this is a man that has abused just about every drug in the world, alienated most of his former bandmates and spent time in a Texas prison. But we approached him to spearhead this column …
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An interview of Kamala Harris at the MoveOn “Big Ideas Forum” was interrupted by a protester who jumped onstage and wrested the microphone from Harris before being removed. While Harris was discussing, of all things, the gender pay gap, the male animal rights protester, Aidan Cook, stormed the stage and …
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The Chainsmokers’ video for “Call You Mine” featuring Bebe Rexha employs an old music video trick that goes back to Spike Jonze and beyond. The story is told in reverse, showing Rexha driving backwards through the streets of L.A. with the bodies of the DJ duo in the backseat and a …
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Patti Smith has announced a new memoir, Year of the Monkey. Published by Knopf, the book will be released on September 24th. Year of the Monkey recounts the year 2016, which Smith spent in solidarity following the singer’s run of New Year’s concerts at the Fillmore in San Francisco.“I began …
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You do not have to squint very hard to see Brian De Palma in Domino. Not literally, mind you … he doesn’t usually take his Hitchcock fetish to constant-cameo lengths. But he’s there in the ominous zoom-in to a gun that a Copenhagen cop named Christian (Game of Thrones‘ Nikolaj …
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Jennifer Hudson made a surprise appearance at the Pulitzer Prize awards ceremony in New York City to pay tribute to Aretha Franklin. The singer offered a rousing version of “Amazing Grace” at annual Pulitzer Prize luncheon at Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library, which honored the 103rd class of Pulitzer winners. …
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Portland electronic outfit Chromatics unveiled a new cover of Hole‘s “Petals,” which appears on the soundtrack for the new Netflix film, The Perfection. Chromatics deftly turn the sprawling Celebrity Skin closer into a concise yet atmospheric tune. Over a blend of gauzy synths and guitars that alternately prickle and carom …
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