Rihanna is the latest artist to send a cease-and-desist letter to Donald Trump, with the Anti singer deploying legal action after her “Don’t Stop the Music” was played at the president’s rally Sunday in Chattanooga, Tennessee. “It has come to our attention that President Trump has utilized [Rihanna‘s] musical compositions …
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Former Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears has never hidden the fact that he’s inspired by glam rock icons such as Elton John and Freddie Mercury. He’s often in slinky, body-baring outfits that sparkle and show off more than his disco dreams. And in the video for “Everything I’ll Ever Need,” …
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Released on January 20th, 1975, Blood on the Tracks was many records – in conception, execution and rapid change of mind – on its way to canonization: Bob Dylan’s greatest album of the Seventies and, as much as the singer has denied it since, the most emotionally direct body of …
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Nobody goes into a movie expecting a pristine history lesson. Cramming the entire saga of a rock band like Queen into a two-hour PG-13 movie necessitates making a fair amount of difficult decisions. While big moments like Freddie Mercury‘s first show with the band and their triumphant set at Live …
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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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“Sometimes it’s necessary to not function,” says Robyn in the most functional, Scandinavian way possible: quiet and measured and with the soothing tone of some sort of woodland creature emerging after a long, restorative sleep from a cave of mystical wonders. In fact, it’s been four years since Robyn stopped …
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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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On the evening of October 16th, ASCAP hosted an opening reception for its She Is the Music Song Camp, a three-day songwriting event for female-identifying songwriters, artists, engineers and producers. ASCAP and industry initiative She Is the Music, which counts Alicia Keys as a founding member, conceived the event, which …
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For much of the Sixties, Elvis Presley‘s most visible presence was on the big screen, in a seemingly endless series of films that ranged from fun (Viva Las Vegas) to forgettable (Easy Come, Easy Go). For that reason alone, the King’s December 3rd, 1968, “comeback” special for NBC was a …
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