Kesha had just finished previewing her new album, Rainbow, for industry types at a Los Angeles recording studio three years ago when she encountered a stout, bearded guy with a “friendly, happy” vibe in the hallway. “You must be an artist,” he said, referring to her bright-red Nudie suit festooned …
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Miranda Lambert and Luke Combs lead all nominees at the 54th annual CMA Awards, which were announced Tuesday morning from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. Lambert scored seven total nominations on the strength of her album Wildcard, while Combs, on a hot streak since the release of his …
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Death Cab for Cutie’s major label debut album Plans turns 15 this week, and to celebrate, the band will be streaming the album’s 2006 short film Directions on their YouTube page. The film features visuals for every song on the record, each by a different director. “Fifteen years ago we …
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Similar to how he did in 2015’s “Kill a Word,” Eric Church personifies emotions and troublesome states of mind in his new song “Crazyland.” The ballad, out Friday, is the third release off Church’s to-be-announced next album. Church wrote the new track with Michael Heeney and Luke Laird (who himself …
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On a Friday evening this summer, a group of the most urgent voices in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, hip-hop scene took to a stage in the city’s Greenwood district to tell a story they felt the world needed to hear. “When [we] came out, the energy just shifted,” says St. Domonick, …
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Sixx:A.M., the hard-rock group Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx formed in 2007, has teamed with a slew of famous faces for a new charity single, “Maybe It’s Time,” which will raise money for people early in the process of recovering from opioid abuse. The band previously released the song on …
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Thin Lizzy will pack 74 previous unreleased tracks into a new box set, Rock Legends, set to arrive October 23rd via UMC. The six-CD/one-DVD collection, which is available to preorder, spans the band’s whole career and comprises a mix of demos, radio sessions, live recordings and rare single edits. The …
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The German DJ-producer-label-owner Cinthie deploys an old R&B sample to lethal effect in “Concentrate,” a relentlessly buoyant house cut from her new album Skylines – City Lights. Cinthie loops “Concentrate,” a track by the Gaturs and New Orleans R&B stalwart Willie Tee — Diddy borrowed from the same source on …
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Katy Perry has released her second video for “Smile,” featuring the pop star playing a video game version of herself as she battles giant spiders, circus trapeze acts and more while dressed as a clown. Much of the video is in CGI, with a live-action Perry playing the video game …
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Mickey Guyton will release her third EP for Capitol Nashville on September 11th. Titled Bridges, the project features six tracks, including the gender-discrimination ballad “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?” and her personal tale of racial inequality, “Black Like Me.” The Texas native wrote each of the EP’s songs over …
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