Dominant just a few years ago, the electronic pop genre known as EDM has faded from the commercial mainstream — just two producers associated with it are in the Top 50 this week. So artists in this space have been forced to come up with creative ways to maintain a …
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Listen to this week’s YouTube Music playlist here Carly Rae Jepsen, “Party for One” Sounds like: A perfectly tuned pop formula Perfect for: Celebrating being alone instead of feeling lonely Pop’s most romantic songwriter is back with a new kind of love story. On “Party for One,” Carly Rae Jepsen …
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Swamp Dogg interrupts his own booty call in the surreal video for “Sex With Your Ex,” a track from the cult soul singer’s recently issuedLove, Loss, and Auto-Tune LP. The clip follows a carnal-minded Swamp Dogg throughout his various sexual encounters –including being tied up in bed, making out on …
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A lot of movie critics didn’t love the new Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, aside from Rami Malek‘s eerily accurate Freddie Mercury – just as many ’70s music critics never warmed to Queen. But it didn’t matter:Bohemian Rhapsody had a huge opening weekend, overcoming a rocky production process that included the …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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These days, when Ray Davies listens to his band’s masterstroke, 1968’s The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, it’s with “a bit of misery.” The frustration he was feeling at age 23, when he wrote it, is still fresh: The Kinks were banned from playing in the U.S. following …
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