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Fitz and the Tantrums took over the stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform two tracks, “All the Feels” and “I Just Wanna Shine,” both off their new album All the Feels. Playing on the show’s outdoor stage, the band gave an upbeat rendition of both songs, which have a …
Read More »Taylor Swift: The Rolling Stone Interview
T aylor Swift bursts into her mom’s Nashville kitchen, smiling, looking remarkably like Taylor Swift. (That red-lip, classic thing? Check.) “I need someone to help dye my hair pink,” she says, and moments later, her ends match her sparkly nail polish, sneakers, and the stripes on her button-down. It’s all …
Read More »Whitney Houston Hologram Tour Plots First 2020 Dates
The upcoming Whitney Houston hologram tour will kick off in early 2020 with its first round of international dates. The trek, “An Evening With Whitney,” launches January 23rd, 2020 in Mexico and wraps April 3rd in Minsk, Belarus, with North American shows tentatively planned for fall 2020. The BASE Hologram …
Read More »Billy Corgan Pays Tribute to Ric Ocasek: 'Gonna Miss You Forever'
Billy Corgan paid tribute to Ric Ocasek, the former leader of the Cars and esteemed producer-for-hire who died Sunday in his New York City apartment at the age of 75. Corgan helped produce the New Wave icon’s 1997 solo effort Troublizing, and wrote the album’s final track, “Asia Minor.” “Devastated …
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Bernie Sanders Discusses the Debate, Joe Biden, and Corporate America
The third Democratic debate was a bizarre affair, marked by whimsical outbursts by Kamala Harris (“Hey-y-y-y, Joe” seemed to catch everyone off guard), the unveiling of Yosemite Sam-inspired epithet (Cory Booker’s “Dagnabit”), and heated exchanges between Julian Castro, Joe Biden, and “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg. One candidate who didn’t participate in …
Read More »Watch Green Day Showcase New Sound With Thrilling 'Father of All…' on 'Kimmel'
Green Day ripped through their new song, “Father of All…,” the title-track from their next album, on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday. The new song, which arrived earlier this week, is a fast-paced rocker that finds frontman Billie Joe Armstrong using his upper register to lend a sweet edge to his …
Read More »Watch Angel Olsen's Stunning, Cinematic New Video for 'Lark'
Angel Olsen roams the hills of North Carolina in the lurid, cinematic new video for “Lark.” The track is the second single off her upcoming album All Mirrors, out October 4th via Jagjaguwar Records and currently available for pre-order. “‘Lark’ is a song that took many years to finish,” Olsen …
Read More »Jennifer Lopez Is a Divine Queenpin in 'Hustlers'
A Best Actress Oscar nomination for Jennifer Lopez? You better believe it. Her see-it-to-believe-it performance in Hustlers is that dazzling, that deep, that electrifying. At the Toronto Film Festival, where art films get the most attention, this glitzy true-crime knockout about New York strippers who take their drooling Wall Street …
Read More »How Artists Are Gaming Streaming Searches to Score Hits
At the end of June, the singer-songwriter Noah Gundersen announced plans for a new album titled Lover. “This record is deeply personal,” he said in a statement. “It’s about love, it’s about failure, it’s about drugs, it’s about sex, it’s about age, it’s about regret, it’s about itself (very meta, …
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