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Tim McGraw looks to Eighties pop radio with his new release, a yearning cover of the Cars‘ 1984 hit “Drive.” It’s McGraw’s latest music to appear since he issued “Thought About You” late in 2018. McGraw has occasionally been known to put his own spin on a popular song, including …

Raphael Saadiq’s had a hand in a remarkable amount of landmark r&b over the past 30 years, though you may not know it — from his family band Tony! Toni! Toné! in the early ‘90s, through his role in the supergroup Lucy Pearl, and his work on records from D’Angelo’s …

Jeff Buckley swoons the crowd with a gut-wrenching performance of “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” in a previously unreleased live video. The song is the seventh track off the late singer’s legendary debut Grace, which turns 25 today. Filmed at the Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 19, 1994, …

What’s the point of a label compilation? Ideally, it’s a showcase that communicates depth and shines a light on the lesser-known artists on a roster by placing them on the same stage as the label’s stars. Control the Streets Vol. 2, the new compilation from Atlanta trap incubator Quality Control …

One of Miley Cyrus‘ most underrated periods was her brief, teenage flirtation with rock. When she first began showing the world she was more than a Disney princess, she released the hair metal-tingedCan’t Be Tamed. She has not returned to the genre much since then, opting instead for rap and …

Hiss Golden Messenger — the eclectic Durham, North Carolina, Americana outfit — have released the new song “Happy Birthday, Baby” a month before the release of their seventh studio album, Terms of Surrender.  The group’s leader and creative mastermind M.C. Taylor wrote the track, which features a nursery rhyme-like counting …

It’s hard to fathom when Hayley Kiyoko rests. Between working on the follow-up to 2018’s Expectations and directing the video for her new single “I Wish,” the multi-hyphenate star also found time to star in Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down” video. During an interview at Rolling Stone‘s “Morning …

Katy Perry laments the conflicting feelings that come post-breakup, when love and intimacy fades and emotional distance pervades in her new song, “Small Talk.” It’s the second single the singer has unveiled in 2019, following the release of “Never Really Over.” Co-written by Perry, Johan Carlsson, Charlie Puth and Jacob …

Big Sean performed his latest song “Single Again” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night, incorporating a “speed dating” scenario onstage. The rapper came out dressed in a jacket with name tag on it, and during the performance he sat down at two rose-covered tables with prospective partners …

“I was 15 when I first felt loneliness/Cut my hair, only listened to Loveless,” sings Clairo on “White Flag.” Who can’t relate? My Bloody Valentine’s ur-shoegaze landmark — a deep sonic cave that remains one of the best hiding-from-the-world listening experiences ever — is a fitting namecheck on this beautiful …