Since his days as a hitmaker in the 1990s and early 2000s, the Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández has excelled at stately, immaculately orchestrated ballads — the perfect launching pad for his potent baritone. On “Decepciones,” Fernández’s band works at a leisurely pace, with a gently strummed rhythm guitar keeping time …
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Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas, stopped by BBC Breakfast in London ahead of their performance at the BRIT Awards, where the duo will live premiere their new Bond theme song. The pair discussed their newfound fame, writing “No Time to Die,” and why Eilish has been forced to back …
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Rising Alabama MC Chika unveiled a hard-hitting new track, “Industry Games,” set to appear on her upcoming EP by the same name. Produced by Sean Momberger, Lido and Ye Ali, “Industry Games” boasts a clattering mix of drums and bass, balanced by a melody of synth pings that echo with …
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On March 27th, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real will release Naked Garden, a companion album to 2019’s Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) featuring previously unreleased tracks and alternate versions of songs from the same sessions. The lead offering from Naked Garden is a blistering alternate take …
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Josh Homme picks up a hitchhiking Grace Libby in the hallucinatory video for Desert Sessions’ “If You Run.” The track appears on the supergroup’s latest compilation, Desert Sessions Vols. 11 and 12, a.k.a. Arrivederci Despairand Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels. Directed by Rio Hackford, the clip shows the …
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The Struts broke through over the past seven years by winning over audiences while opening for Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses, the Rolling Stones, and others. Now, they’re hitting the road once more as headliners. In an interview with NME, Dave Grohl called the bombastic group “the best opening band …
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Fourteen years since its release, Shakira and Wyclef Jean‘s bilingual mega-hit, “Hips Don’t Lie,” is the gift that keeps on giving. As of Monday, the song has made its debut on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart at Number 79. Following Shakira and Jennifer Lopez’s momentous Super Bowl halftime …
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Ahead of the Valentine’s Day release of Changes, Justin Bieber returned to Saturday Night Live to perform a pair of singles from his new album, “Yummy” and the Quavo-featuring “Intentions.” For “Yummy,” the singer turned the Studio 8H stage into a large green box where Bieber and a trio of …
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Kelsea Ballerini performed two songs off her upcoming album Kelsea on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night, her latest single “Homecoming Queen?” and the vulnerable “LA.” “I’ve got a love n’ hate relationship with LA,” Ballerini sings in the atmospheric mid-tempo track, which finds the Tennessee native sharing feelings of …
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) wants to convince Americans that she should be the next president of the United States — but her own cousin thinks otherwise. That cousin just happens to be Nika Danilova, a.k.a. goth-pop singer-songwriter/producer Zola Jesus. “I’m not fucking around with my Bernie support,” Danilova tweeted earlier …
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