Caroline Polachek, formerly of synthpop group Chairlift, has announced a forthcoming solo album and shared two of its tracks, “Ocean of Tears” and “Parachute.” The album,Pang, will be out in autumn. Pang marks Polachek’s second solo release since Chairlift announced their split in 2016, and the first under her own …
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Kenya Barris and Kid Cudi will be bringing the rapper’s upcoming album Entergalacticto life in a new “adult animated” Netflix series, the streaming service announced on Monday. The series will showcase songs from the forthcoming record, and will “follow a young man on his journey to discover love.” A release …
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Hayley Kiyoko dropped “I Wish,” her first new song since her 2018 debut LP Expectations. The song arrived with Kiyoko’s self-directed, magical video. The video opens with a girl in a plaid school uniform running up the stairs of her home. There, her friends sit in circle as the girl …
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One of the highlights of Bruce Springsteen‘s hit Broadway show was the singer talking about his love of his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey. While he spent his early years singing about wanting to leave home, “Now I live ten minutes away from where I grew up,” he said. Now, …
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Chelsea Wolfe has released her latest video for “American Darkness,” a track from her forthcoming albumBirth of Violence, out September 13th. The moody, black-and-white clip, directed by Karlos Rene Ayala, features disparate people – mostly women – dancing and expressing themselves in solitude. Wolfe says the video was inspired by …
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Philadelphia indie rocker (Sandy) Alex G unveiled a devastating new song about the death of a friend, “Hope,” which will appear on his forthcoming album House of Sugar, out September 13th via Domino. “Hope” is centered around an upbeat rush of acoustic guitar and shuffling drums, but the song gets …
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Half the joy of being an R&B fan is incessantly complaining about the state of R&B — the lack of hits, the sexlessness of its 2019, the cottage industry of lullaby drones filling downtempo streaming playlists. Then Ann Marie drops “My Body,”and my complaints about R&B quickly seem lazy. The …
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Steven Van Zandt reflects on his early days as a musician, the first time he met and performed with Bruce Springsteen and portraying his beloved character Silvio Dante on the Sopranos in the latest installment of “The First Time.” Van Zandt traces the first time he played guitar to 1963, …
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Daptone Records and the Helsinki, Finland-based soul label Timmion Records teased their upcoming compilation, Bad Education, with a beautifully beseeching new song, “Until You’re Mine,” from Wanda Felicia and the Timmion house band Cold Diamond & Mink. “Until You’re Mine” boasts a drum and bass groove that moves with a …
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AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson’s travel series Life on the Road, which aired in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2017, is coming to America’s AXS TV in September. The show features Johnson traveling all across the globe to interview rock stars like Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, Sting, Billy Joel, …
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