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Ariana Grande delivers a sleek sendoff to her exes on the singer’s surprise new single “Thank U, Next,” which arrived without notice just moments before the latest episode of Saturday Night Live aired on the East Coast. Grande opens the song by name-checking four of her high-profile boyfriends – Big …

Panic at the Disco add a rock edge to their reworked version of “The Greatest Show,” a song from the Oscar-nominated soundtrack of film musical The Greatest Showman. The band’s frontman and lone official member, Brendon Urie, stays faithful to the original’s theatrical arrangement of brass fanfare and densely layered …

Vicky Cornell, widow of late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, has fileda medical malpractice suit against his doctor,claiming that Dr. Robert Koblin “negligently and repeatedly” prescribed Cornell “dangerous mind-altering controlled substances… which impaired [his] cognition, clouded his judgement and caused him to engage in dangerous impulsive behaviors that he was unable …

“Weird Al” Yankovic is returning to the road in 2019, where the musician will employ a full symphony orchestra for every show. Unlike this year’s Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour – where he played a set consisting almost entirely of his lesser-known original tunes – he’ll be breaking out all …

Janelle Monáe returned to the Late Show Friday to deliver a transfixing performance of her Dirty Computer single “Make Me Feel.” The rendition opened in black-and-white video with Monáe delivering a Janet Jackson-like dance routine before the performance of the Prince-inspired song wiped to full color with backup dancers, backing …

In April, Kimbra released Primal Heart, a slick electronic pop album teeming with sharp hooks. She’s been tinkering with the results ever since. She took “Version of Me,” a brooding, self-castigating ballad from the piano-and-microphone school, and reworked it with simmering harmonies from the singer Dawn Richard. “Top of the …

Nine Inch Nails highlight the rabid energy of their stage show in a new live video for “Ahead of Ourselves.” The black-and-white clip, filmed during the band’s ongoing “Cold and Black and Infinite” North American tour, shows frontman Trent Reznor adopting a forceful pose – grabbing the microphone stand and …

Swedish singer Tove Lo has entered herBlue Lips era with a short film based on the songs from the album. The film follows the release of her Major Lazer collaboration “Blow That Smoke.” She co-wrote the film with director Malia James. Tove Lo stars as Ebba, who goes on an …

Bittersweet, somber and haunting, “Cry Alone” is peak Lil Peep. The song was recorded in 2017, before the young rapper’s death, and features him singing about the intersection of drugs and death. “I don’t wanna die alone right now, I just did a line of blow right now,” Peep says …

On Tuesday, the single “Broken,” by the previously hit-less group Lovelytheband, broke a notable threshold: It has now reached more than one billion listeners. No song has gotten more play on what’s known as “Alternative” radio — the catch-all home of guitar-bass-and-drums acts, including Weezer, the Struts and Elle King …