John Mayer explained how a driving creative force behind his new album, Sob Rock, was a desire to make a record that was equivalent to “shitposting” on the internet, in a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. Recalling how he was told at the start of his …
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When Travis Scott failed to earn a Grammy nomination for 2016’sBirds in the Trap Sing McKnight, “that was a real dark day,” says Sickamore, the rapper’s longtime A&R, who now works at Interscope Records. Scott returned on Friday withAstroworld,an imposing LPthat’s at once baroque and bludgeoning, sludgy and slick. The …
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