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Just over 50 years since the landmark album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society came out, it’s been certified gold in the U.K. The award means that the LP has sold more than 100,000 copies in the band’s native country.It’s still uncertified in the United States, where it …

Mariah Carey visited The Tonight Show Friday, the same day her new album Caution arrived, to perform “The Distance” and discuss the Glitter resurgence with Jimmy Fallon. To celebrate the release of her 15th studio album, Carey delivered a show-stopping rendition of “The Distance” alongside the single’s featured guest Ty …

Paul McCartney has shared his unreleased home-recorded demo for Wings‘ John Lennon-inspired Wild Life closer “Dear Friend.” The unearthed, piano-and-vocals-only rendition, as well as its newly remastered studio version, feature on the upcoming reissue of the 1971 LP, due out December 7th. “With ‘Dear Friend’, that’s sort of me talking …

Twenty-five years later, the earth is still reeling from the spectacle of Smashing Pumpkins’ early Nineties triumph, a keening feedback-drenched rainbow that melded dream-pop gauze and arena rock bluster, Joy Division emotions and Cheap Trick aspirations. Generations of zeros-turned-heroes followed after 1993’s Technicolor guitar-army bubblegumSiamese Dream, 1995’s bloated but pointed …

In 1990, Alan Elliott was a newly hired A&R man at Atlantic Records when he took a get-acquainted meeting with one of the label’s Mount Rushmore figures, producer Jerry Wexler. Wexler’s days with Aretha Franklin soon came up. “He said to me, ‘You heard Amazing Grace, right?’” recalls Elliott, referring …

Lady Gaga‘s Born This Way Foundation announced a campaign called the #MultiplyYourGood Challenge. From now through December 21st, the foundation incentivizes holiday giving by matching charitable donations, volunteer work or gently used items given by participants to one of its own nonprofit affiliates. Those who participate are entered in a …

UPDATE (11/13):Es Devlin, Lorde’s collaborator on herMelodramaTour stage design, took to Instagram to share other examples of her work in which glass boxes are featured heavily. Devlin posted three stills from the 2007 staging of ‘Carmen’ at the English National Opera, which also used a suspended glass box with performers …

Pusha T‘s performance at Tyler, the Creator’s 2018 Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival Saturday stirred up some unexpected drama as, during theDaytona rapper’s set at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium, the words “Fuck Drake” boldly appeared on the screen behind him, seemingly reigniting Pusha T and Drake’s beef. https://thisforall.net/QuakeGW/status/1061509724896706560 However, Pusha T …

The singer Lucky Daye makes music full of live funk, strings and brass — it’s more William DeVaughn than the Weeknd, and as a result, it’s not the type of R&B you usually find on mainstream radios or massive playlists like Today’s Top Hits. But the fact that Daye’s music …

Beyoncé voiced her support for Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke with a series of posts on Instagram just hours before polls closed on Election Day Tuesday. The pop star – and Houston native – posted three pictures in which she wore a “Beto for Texas” hat. Accompanying the first …