Funk icon Chaka Khan belted her recent single “Like Sugar” on Wednesday’s Ellen. The singer recruited a quartet of breakdancers for the track — a fitting touch for a song about a “funky, funky groove.” “It’s like sugar, so sweet/Good enough to eat,” she sang over a thick bassline and …
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Weeks after Rami Malek won Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, there are reports that he might be asked to strap on the fake teeth one more time for a sequel. The New York Post quotes their longtime …
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Over the last 20 years, Puerto Rican MC Ivy Queen has earned many nicknames: including La Diva, La Caballota or, simply, the Queen. But above all she is the First Lady of reggaeton — no really, the first — and lest anybody forget, she’s bounded back to claim her throne …
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Live and Bush, two alumni of the Nineties alt-rock boom, announced a joint summer tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their respective signature albums: the former’s Throwing Copper and the latter’s Sixteen Stone. The trek launches June 6th at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT and wraps September 8th in …
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The Mountain Goats‘ John Darnielle observes a brutal crime scene in the band’s new song “Cadaver Sniffing Dog.” “Hustle up the spiral stairs, see if anything’s left up there/Teams on the scene from several stations; everybody, adjust your expectations,” he sings over a shadowy guitar riff and muted bass. “Stray …
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Derek King’s “Tetris” is a baffling song, even by streaming’s everything-goes standards. It’s built around the melody of Sisqó’s 2000 hit “Thong Song,” but comes with a Bay area bounce. Instead of comparing butts to dump trucks, King’s lyrics are more interested in using the famous puzzle game as a …
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Weezer recruited the Roots and Jimmy Fallon for a “classroom instruments” version of A-ha’s “Take on Me” on Thursday’s Tonight Show. The group went suitably retro for the occasion, with Fallon and Rivers Cuomo sporting New Wave/synth-pop haircuts and neon jackets with sharp shoulder pads and rolled-up sleeves. The ramshackle, …
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Lori McKenna performs a solo rendition of “The Fixer” off her album The Tree in this new video filmed for YouTube’s Nashville Sessions. It’s a particularly dramatic reading by the New England songwriter, who shines a light on the complicated relationship between a man who is perpetually toiling away on …
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Carly Rae Jepsen is previewing her fourth album with a pair of romantic new songs that the singer unveiled Wednesday. “Now That I Found You” and “No Drug Like Me” will both appear on her as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2015’s acclaimed Emotion. On the Captain Cuts-produced “Now That I Found You,” …
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In 2018, Aerosmith announced their Vegas residency, Deuces are Wild, which kicks off April 6th at the Park MGM – the same venue Lady Gaga has been selling out for her hit residency. “It seems like it would be a really cool thing to bring some of the history back, …
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