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“I ain’t going to be caught loitering around that song,” Tanya Tucker said when Brandi Carlile suggested she record a version of Miranda Lambert‘s Grammy-winning “The House That Built Me” for her upcoming album While I’m Livin‘. “There is nothing I can bring to that table.” But Carlile proved too …

The Lumineers have announced a 2020 headlining North American tour in support of their upcoming album III. The folk-rock band will play 30 arenas and amphitheaters across the U.S. and Canada, beginning February 1st in Asheville, North Carolina and wrapping June 12th in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Indie-rock act Mt. Joy will …

Sleater-Kinney have released the lyric video for “Can I Go On,” the latest single from their forthcoming album The Center Won’t Hold. The record, produced by St. Vincent, arrives August 16th. “Can I Go On” combines existential despair and rage over the current era in its seething guitar riffs and …

Cramming the plot of Ghostbusters 2 into a four-minute pop song is no easy task, but Bobby Brown handled it with tremendous skill on his New Jack Swing masterpiece “On Our Own,” which peaked at Number Two on the Hot 100 30 years ago this week. “Found about Vigo, the …

Kesha is all about the positive vibes on her latest track, “Best Day (Angry Birds 2 Remix),” which comes off the soundtrack of the upcoming The Angry Birds Movie 2. Produced by Ryan Lewis and co-written with Lewis and Scott Harris, the upbeat song is presumably a remix of a …

The Claypool Lennon Delirium conjure a demented fish-human showdown in their psychedelic “Little Fishes” video. Animator Micah Buzan uses the song’s intro lyrics as a springboard, particularly Les Claypool‘s visions of men “gobbling” up mercury-heavy fish and the pollutant settling “in their soft and supple brains.” Using those elements — …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …