A little after midnight last night, Weezer shocked their fans by dropping a new album of cover songs. Since they’ve basically ran out of colors at this point, they’re calling this one The Teal Album. It begins with their shock comeback hit “Africa” and then gets into Michael Jackson’s “Billie …
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Ty Segall and the Freedom Band reboot and recharge the rocker’s 2012 track “Love Fuzz” on the first offering from their upcoming live album, Deforming Lobes, out March 29th via Drag City. From its introductory back-and-forth barrage of guitars, Segall and the Freedom Band transform the original garage chug of …
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Welcome to ‘Will I Get Fired For This?,’ an occasionally recurring column in which staff writer Charles Holmes — whose duties include but are not limited to watching and writing about music videos — watches a new music video that he fears will get him fired. Read the previous entry …
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Ella Mai won’t wait around long for her suitor to come around in her new video for “Shot Clock.” The song appears on her eponymous debut album, which was released last year. The Colin Tilley-directed visual emphasizes the pressing countdown with scenes shot on a basketball court. In the clip, …
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Cardi B, Post Malone and Camila Cabello are among the first slate of artists set to perform at the 61st Grammy Awards. The initial lineup also includes Shawn Mendes, Janelle Monáe, Kacey Musgraves and Dan and Shay. Alicia Keys will host the show, which will air live on CBS February …
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Ozzy Osbourne, Disturbed, Shinedown and Bush will lead this year’s Rocklahoma, the hard-rock fest that invades Pryor, Oklahoma on Memorial Day weekend. Ace Frehley, Lita Ford, Jackyl, Seether, Buckcherry, Asking Alexandria, Blackberry Smoke, Tech N9ne, Steel Panther and Bad Wolves are also on the lineup at the “Catch the Fever” …
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Sam Smith teams with Fifth Harmony’s Normani for the sultry new single “Dancing With a Stranger,” which the duo released digitally Friday. “Dancing With a Stranger” is the result of a chance meeting between Smith and Normani: Smith was writing new music at a Los Angeles studio while Normani recorded …
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Backstreet Boys celebrate domesticity in their homespun video for new single “No Place.” The breezy cut appears on the vocal group’s upcoming 10th LP, DNA, out January 25th. Throughout the clip, each of the band’s five members –AJ McLean, Howie Dorough, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Littrell – hang …
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Queen guitarist Brian May released a new song on New Year’s Eve to mark the voyage of the New Horizons space probe as it passed by the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule. It’s the farthest object in the solar system that a spacecraft has visited, and it took 12 years to …
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Independent Chicago rapper Noname kicked off the new year by unveiling her first new song of 2019, “Song 31.” It’s also her first new music since releasing Room 25, named one of Rolling Stone‘s Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2018. Over winsome, jazz-tipped melodies, the rapper poetically rhymes about the drive …
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