An upcoming Quincy Jones orchestral show in London, originally billed as a performance of three Michael Jackson albums, has been changed to “a celebration of ’80s music.” The June 23rd concert at the O2 Arena was initially announced in February as “Quincy Jones Presents Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad,” with …
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Shawn Mendes has mastered the art of the one-off single. In between his biannual albums, the singer-songwriter typically drops a new track, often tied to a re-release of the previous LP. It’s usually brilliantly catchy and all but guaranteed to be a summer hit (see: the Camila Cabello-assisted “I Know …
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For the first couple years of her career, Rico Nasty worked to develop her “sugar trap” style — melodious, Lil Yachty-indebted sing-song flexes on top of beats that sounded like souped-up versions of the Barney theme song. Her career trajectory changed course one night in late 2017, during her first-ever …
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President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of tweets and retweets on Friday night and Saturday morning covering topics like the right-wing personalities who were booted off Facebook this past week and, of course, North Korea, which launched a short-range projectile off its coast Saturday morning, according to South Korean officials. …
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Two albums into their career as a band, Old Dominion have become popular largely on the basis of upbeat material like “Break Up With Him,” “Snapback” and “Hotel Key” that plays as well at parties as it does over arena speakers. But on Friday, the Nashville band threw a curveball …
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Logan Brill is a woman on the move in her new song “Roll,” which premieres today. The swaggering track is the Knoxville, Tennessee, native’s follow-up to “Walk of Shame,” released earlier in 2019. Penned by Brent Cobb with Ben Daniel and Skip Black, “Roll” comes from a similarly funky place …
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Snail Mail—a.k.a. Lindsey Jordan—has announced a slew of North American shows this summer. The 19-year-old indie rocker has been touring in support of her 2018 debut album Lush. After hitting summer festivals, including Boston Calling, Primavera Sound and Firefly, Snail Mail will spend August headlining shows in the U.S. Jordan …
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On the near-anniversary of its first quarterly earnings report as a public company in 2018, Spotify has good news to share. In its earnings report for the first quarter of 2019 Monday, the company said that it reached 217 million monthly active users around the world — 100 million of …
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During Sting‘s Friday night appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the singer and late-night host put a twist on the Police’s 1979 hit “Walking on the Moon” with “Two Stings on the Moon.” Set against a backdrop of the moon and stars, both Sting and Fallon sported astronaut …
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Taylor Swift dropped her highly anticipated single “ME!” Thursday night, featuring Brendon Urie and accompanied by a Dave Meyers-directed video. In celebration of her new song, Swift appeared in a Good Morning Americasegment on Friday that was, true to the song, all about her. “I was 11 when I first …
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