Billy Joel, “the King of Long Island,” visitedJimmy Kimmel Live Thursday in Brooklyn, with the singer impersonating Bruce Springsteen, announcing an extension to his Madison Square Garden residency and performing “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)” during the episode. The interview came the day after both Joel …
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Bootsy Collins plays scalding funk on new single “Hot Saucer,” featuring singer-songwriter Musiq Soulchild and rapper Big Daddy Kane. The iconic Funkadelic bassist anchors the track with a dirty, distorted bass. Soulchild croons a series of food-as-sex metaphors (including nods to collard greens and “cheese on grits”) and Big Daddy …
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Tove Lo embarks on a debaucherous road trip with a frisky puppet in the wild new video for “Disco Tits.” The track will appear on the Swedish pop star’s upcoming album, Blue Lips, which is expected to arrive in November via Island Records. The Tim Erem-directed clip opens with Tove …
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The xx performed “Dangerous” and“Say Something Loving,”two melodic tracks from their third LP,I See You, on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! Bassist Oliver Sim opened “Dangerous” with a thumping low-end, while resident beat-maker Jamie xx bounced around the stage to trigger brass samples and electronics. Sim and singer Romy Madley Croft …
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Success came quickly for 18-year-old British singer-songwriter Steven Demetre Georgiou when he began releasing singles under the name Cat Stevens in 1966. His debut single “I Love My Dog” rose to Number 28 on the UK singles chart and follow-up single “Matthew and Son” hit Number Two. But it would …
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Ed Sheeran will return to North America for a stadium tour in 2018. The trek begins August 18th at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California and wraps November 10th at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Sheeran announced the 15-show tour on his Instagram, noting the concerts were just the “first batch.” …
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Brian Wilson released a breezy new surf-rock song, “Run James Run,” from his upcoming solo career retrospective LP, Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology. The track – which the Beach Boys mastermind co-wrote with Joe Thomas and recorded in 2017, specifically for the project – opens with a British Invasion guitar …
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UPDATE:Avicii: True Stories, the career-spanning documentary about the late Swedish DJ-producer, is now set for a wider U.S. theatrical release, following its one-night-only screening in 2017. The film will hit Los Angeles, California on Friday, December 14th, followed by New York, New York on Friday, December 21st. Avicii: True Stories, …
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UPDATE:Hear the full It’s Electric! episode between Lars Ulrich and Dave Grohl below. When Dave Grohl stopped by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich‘s Beats 1 radio show, It’s Electric!recently, he told the story of how Foo Fighters became Mick Jagger‘s backing band on Saturday Night Live in 2012. As Grohl explained …
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Born Onika Maraj in Trinidad before moving to Queens, New York as a child, Nicki Minaj harbored artistic ambitions early in her life, and attended Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School – the performing arts academy made famous in the movie Fame. After graduation, she toiled on the fringes of New …
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