It’s unlikely that Greta Van Fleet singer Josh Kiszka woke up this morning troubled by all the accusations that he’s copy-and-pasted Robert Plant’s vocal style. Or that his bandmates are too fazed by Pitchfork pegging them as Led Zeppelin–aping hacks in a scathing review of their new debut, Anthem of …
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Billie Eilish unveiled the dark visual for her new single “When the Party’s Over.” The 16-year-old singer-songwriter is currently on a sold out tour of North America. The video opens with Eilish wearing all white with chains around her neck. She sits at a table in a room that matches …
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Kesha performs as a one-woman band in her black-and-white video for “Here Comes the Change.” The acoustic ballad appears in On the Basis of Sex, the upcoming film chronicling the career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The clip opens with the singer lugging a bass drum into an …
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Now that Ozzy Osbourne is on the mend, following the staph infection that forced him to reschedule the last few North American dates of his No More Tours 2 Tour, he’s getting back onstage earlier than expected. On December 31st, he’ll headline a one-off Ozzfest at the L.A. Forum and …
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Pearl Jam were cresting when they made an appearance on the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards. Not only did they win Video of the Year for “Jeremy,” trouncing video warhorses like Aerosmith, Peter Gabriel and R.E.M., but they also performed on the show, giving the network footage to air when …
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New York City’s Caroline Rose took her songwriting to a new level of wit and heart with Loner, the album she released in February. It’s full of deftly drawn characters, like the numbingly normal partygoers in “More of the Same” or the comically exaggerated versions of Rose herself in “Money” …
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It’s been a tumultuous week for Vic Mensa. The Chicago rapper faced criticism following a performance during the BET Hip-Hop Awards in which he denounced domestic abusers, with a line that many assumed was aimed at the late Florida rapper XXXTentacion.“Only time you bear arms is in a wife-beater, loser/Your …
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“We’ve been doing new tracks that are really fantastic and we’ve just been getting into them,” Jimi Hendrix told Rolling Stone in February 1968, right after he and the Experience had played San Francisco’s Fillmore West. “You have these songs in your mind. You want to hurry up and get …
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Listen to this week’sYouTube Music Playlist here. Halsey, “Without Me” Sounds like: A textbook diss for a toxic ex Perfect for: Establishing your romantic boundaries and your self-worth Last year, with Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, Halsey gave us a script-flipping take on Romeo & Juliet — and she’s still all about …
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Gladys Knight fronted a soulful gospel tribute to the late Aretha Franklin on Tuesday at the 2018 American Music Awards. Ledisi, Mary Mary, Donnie McClurkin and CeCe Winans joined for the all-star medley performance, which highlighted Franklin’s gospel roots and herseminal 1972 album,Amazing Grace. Knight opened the show-closing set with …
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