The National have announced a new album, I Am Easy to Find, which is available for preorder and will be released on May 17th via 4AD. The band has also unveiled the LP’s first single, “You Had Your Soul With You.” A stuttering, bright melody and beat serves as an …
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The Hold Steady adopt an Exile on Main St. swagger with their brass-heavy new song “The Last Time That She Talked to Me.” Throughout the track, frontman Craig Finn gazes back on a past relationship, picking apart scenes in reliably dense detail. “If all of my existence is ever on …
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Authorities are reportedly investigating a new videotape that appears to show R. Kelly having sex with an allegedly underage girl, CNN reports. The tape was obtained by lawyer Michael Avenetti, who is representing several clients connected to R. Kelly’s alleged sexual assault of minors. Per CNN, Avenetti handed over the …
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“Thank U, Next” accelerated the rise ofAriana Grande’s already ascendant career. It was her first Number One on the Billboard Hot 100, served as the launching point for one of Grande’s most successful projectsand proved that a pop star looking to hip-hop for inspiration in the streaming age could pay …
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Showtime announced Saturday that the network had acquired a feature documentary about The Go-Go’s.The film will premiere late this year. The Alison Ellwood-directed film features “full access” to the band, along with “candid interviews and archival footage to tell the real story of their meteoric rise to fame and the …
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“We live in a time where anyone can release their own music online,” says Jon Foster, a Toronto-based composer, producer and drummer who, alongside his writing partner Steve Poloni independently recorded and released the soundtrack for the short film, “Camista,” in October of last year. While sites like Soundcloud and …
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Billie Eilish has mapped out a North American trek in support of her much-anticipated debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? After Eilish’s pair of performances at Coachella in April, the trek itself launches May 29th at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and runs through …
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Bow Wow was arrested and charged with battery after the rapper and a woman were involved in a physical altercation early Saturday morning in Atlanta. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Bow Wow, real name Shad Moss, and the woman, identified as Leslie Holden, had the alleged fight outside a Midtown …
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Tekashi 6ix9ine, the embattled rapper embroiled in a mounting series of federal counts of racketeering, has pleaded guilty to nine counts according to documents obtained byRolling Stone. 6ix9ine (real name Daniel Hernandez) had previously pleaded not guilty since his arrest in November. Denied bail, he has spent the ensuing months …
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