Lizzo is releasing her major label debut, Cuz I Love You, in April, and the title track offers a fiery taste of her incredibly vocal and genre range. It’s the second single off the LP, following up the retro “Juice.” “Cuz I Love You” starts with a bang: Lizzo belts “I’m …
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H.E.R. made her Grammy Awards debut tonight with a performance of her song “Hard Place.” The rising R&B star is up for five awards tonight, including Album of the Year and Best New Artist. The multi-instrumentalist took the stage strumming her guitar, offering up simmering vocals as the song grew more …
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Hüsker Dü began making records in the Reagan era, and their hardcore-punk-bad-trip-psychedelia — exemplified in a white-knuckled cover of The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” — was a perfect reflection of WTF rage at America’s right-wing hijacking. So it’s welcome and fitting to hear new music from ex-frontman Bob Mould during …
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Singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt hails from California — both Southern and Northern — and her first LP pegged her as one part late-Sixties Laurel Canyon, one part early 2000s freak folk. Her style blossomed on her 2015 follow-up, On Your Own Love Again, with stranger melodies (one song is even called …
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About a year after Smashing Pumpkins issued their fuzzy, trippy debut, Gish, a thief stole Billy Corgan‘s favorite guitar. The band had just finished a gig at Detroit’s Saint Andrew’s Hall in June 1992 when a friend who was acting as a roadie told him, “Somebody just walked out the …
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Nick Cave lends his vocals to “Our Lady of Light,” a slow-building duet with author-writer-actor Larry “Ratso” Sloman that will appear on the latter’s debut album, Stubborn Heart, due out April 5th. The song has an orchestral backdrop, an easy tempo and dreamy, Fifties-style backup vocals — it all sounds …
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Following the arrest and detention of 21 Savage (real nameShe’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph), the rapper’s legal team has released a statement about his current situation. According to Charles H. Kuck, Abraham-Joseph’s immigration lawyer of the firm Kuck & Baxter, ICE refuses to release the rapper “on bond of any amount.” It’s …
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The last eight months have been full of “first since” moments for the Backstreet Boys: “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” became their first Grammy-nominated song since 2002, their first single to crack pop radio’s Top 20 since 2005 and their first Hot 100 entry since 2007. On Sunday, the group’s …
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Just one day before they kick off their 2019 North American tour in Vancouver, Interpol have released the new song “Fine Mess” via their website and all major streaming services. “Lately something has come over all of me,” Interpol frontman Paul Banks sings on the haunting tune. “My welts all …
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Justin Timberlake‘s Man of the Woods tour has not gone as planned. Last fall, the singer had to cancel multiple rounds of arena dates due to severely bruised vocal cords, a setback that left the singer devastated. “I’ve never encountered anything like this,” Timberlake told Rolling Stone in an e-mail …
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