Hip-hop’s Internet-mediated underground currently teems with talented women like Maryland MC Rico Nasty. While her debut mixtape for Atlantic Records doesn’t feel like a major creative breakthrough, it’s a solid introduction to a dynamic, hard-charging voice in what Rico herself dubs “sugar trap.” She raps with adrenalized passion on the …
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The Hold Steady‘s Craig Finn and the Gaslight Anthem‘s Brian Fallon will unite for a joint North American tour this fall. The duo will perform stripped-down solo sets without a band during the brief trek, which launches October 2nd in Boston, Massachusetts and wraps October 27th in Denver, Colorado. A …
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Over a decade ago, Lily Allen burst into the pop mainstream with “Smile,” a cheery song that wrapped its withering indictments of a straying lover in Jackie Mittoo keyboards and skipping-stone grooves. The combination of Allen’s voice – which, thanks in part to Mark Ronson’s retro-minded production, brought to mind …
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Lily Allen struggles with love and searches for relief in the new video for “Lost My Mind,” set to appear on her new album, No Shame, out June 8th. The Myles Whittingham-directed clip is set in a lone bedroom where Allen sings the snappy, yet melancholy pop tune as she …
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Troye Sivan delivers extravagant glamour in the gorgeous video for his latest single “Bloom.” Bardia Zeinali directed the colorful visual that sees Sivan channeling a variety of fashion-forward, genderqueer looks. With lips painted bright red, Sivan dances and sings in front of exorbitant floral arrangements, painted clouds and a variety …
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Kim Gordon‘s Body/Head will return this July with the experimental guitar duo’s second studio album The Switch, the follow-up to the former Sonic Youth rocker and Bill Nace’s 2013 debut LP Coming Apart. The Switch features five tracks recorded in the same Massachusetts studio and under the guidance of the …
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U2 performed a live, stripped-down version of “Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way” from 2017’s Songs of Experience at Third Man Records. The band stopped in to record the track, which will be available on limited edition vinyl, during their Nashville, Tennessee Experience + Innocencestopover the weekend. “‘When …
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Less than a day after Pusha-T appeared to diss Drake on the Daytona song “Infrared,” the Views rapper fired back at Pusha-T and the song’s producer Kanye West in a new track titled “Duppy Freestyle.” On “Infrared,” Pusha-T reignited his Drake feud – a beef sparked by Drake’s “Two Birds, …
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Ringing electric guitars may be at the core of Blackberry Smoke‘s smoldering Southern rock sound, but the Georgia natives’ songs sound just as good when the band unplugs. Case in point: a new acoustic version of “Best Seat in the House.” One of the highlights of the group’s latest LP, …
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On the latest single from his sophomore album, Zayn disses a deceitful ex on “Entertainer.” The track’s minimalist, plaintive tone heightens his fragility, which comes across in his defensive lines like: “I watch you and laugh with and fuck with you/ Don’t you take me for a fool/ In this …
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