Carly Rae Jepsen is celebrating the holidays early with her bubbly Christmas jingle “It’s Not Early Till Somebody Cries.” On the upbeat synth-pop single, Jepsen details the antics of a dysfunctional holiday gathering. “My boyfriend is a vegan so they fed him fish/My uncle made it worse by talkin’ politics/I …
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Amanda Shires is one of Nashville’s most celebrated singer-songwriters, winning widespread acclaim for such releases as 2018’s To the Sunset and last year’s debut from The Highwomen, the all-star group she founded with Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby.Last month, Shires released “The Problem,” a single recorded with her …
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Ludwig Göransson has had a hand in some of the most innovative and influential film and TV scores of this decade — Black Panther,The Mandalorian, and now Tenet, the latest sci-fi thriller from Christopher Nolan. “I sawBatman Begins when I was 18 or 19, in Sweden in the movie theater, …
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After hovering in the Top Five for multiple weeks, Internet Money’s “Lemonade” — which features vocals from the high-streaming acts Gunna, Nav, and Don Toliver — jumped to Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. The track amassed 18.3 million streams and 1,800 downloads, enough to …
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Gwen Stefani has released a new holiday song, “Here This Christmas,” which will serve as the theme song for this year’s Hallmark Channel “Countdown to Christmas” programming. The cheery track moves with a skipping drum groove while it bursts with all manner of bells, horns, and strings. Stefani crafts a …
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Nada Surf have released a 10-minute short music film for their song “Just Wait,” directed by Mark Pellington. The visual serves as an abstract accompaniment to the song, filmed in Los Angeles, Cambridge, and Sydney. Pellington, who has worked with artists as diverse as Imagine Dragons, Low, Chelsea Wolfe, and …
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Polo G has a record deal, a hit song, and two critically acclaimed albums, but he considers one of his greatest accomplishments to be simply making it to age 21. Surviving a violent childhood in Chicago is a persistent theme across the versatile rapper’s catalog. “You can be as young …
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I’m a sucker for a good scary song. Just throw in some eerie wind effects, a creature howling, a zombie or two gibbering, and you’ve got my attention. Halloween is to me what Christmas is to Mariah Carey fans: an excuse to listen to thematic songs all month long. (Oh, …
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The Bird and the Bee — the collaboration between singer Inara George and producer Greg Kurstin — have announced their first-ever Christmas album Put Up the Lights. The duo also shared a pair of tracks from the seasonal LP, the original “You and I at Christmas Time” and a rendition …
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If you’re looking for indie-pop thrills this quarantined fall, you won’t find many better than the ones onMy Favorite Shrine, the debut EP from New York City trio Ribbon Stage. Jamming five songs into eight minutes — the longest, “Personal Hell,” maxes out at a lean 2:21 — the EP …
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