The 1975‘s Matty Healey has vowed that going forward the band will add an inclusion rider to any festival contract stating they’ll only play if a certain percentage of the other artists on the bill are women or non-binary. The singer made the claim on Twitter Wednesday after sliding into …
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Nicki Minaj returns with her first solo track of 2020 with “Yikes.” She released the “set-up track,” as she called it during an event at Pollstar Live 2020, late night on Thursday, delaying the release a few hours after its planned midnight drop. “Yikes, I play tag and you it …
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When Fat Possum Records gave Neil Hagerty the finances to record his most recent record as Howling Hex, he made a pledge. “Everyone in the Midwest is walking around high and dying on OxyContin,” Hagerty tells Rolling Stone. “[I told the label] that I would just drive around in the …
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Brian Wilson expressed his displeasure with the Mike Love-led Beach Boys‘ decision to play the upcoming convention for the trophy hunting organization, Safari Club International. “This organization supports trophy hunting, which both Al [Jardine] and I are emphatically opposed to,” Wilson wrote on Facebook. “There’s nothing we can do personally …
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Kesha released her anticipated new album High Road this past Friday, and she’s now shared a new music video for the title track. “High Road,” directed and produced by Magic Seed, follows Kesha on grainy VHS film, taking a psychedelic journey through the desert, into an opulent resort and around an …
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Meghan Trainor and Nicki Minaj take over the workplace in the new video for “Nice to Meet Ya,” directed by Matthew Cullen (Katy Perry, Black Eyed Peas, Kygo, Weezer). The clip stems from a treatment written by Trainor and is inspired by one of her favorite movies, 1988’s Working Girl. …
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In a new interview with Zane Lowe, Demi Lovato discussed her upcoming Grammys appearance — her first live performance in nearly two years — and the song she’ll be premiering on the telecast, “Anyone.” The track was written and recorded four days before Lovato suffered an overdose in the summer …
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Eminem‘s latest album,Music to Be Murdered By, at times leaned heavily on one of the rapper’s time-honored attributes: a dependence on shock value. In its two most attention-grabbing moments, he raps from the perspective of the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people in 2017 (“Darkness”), and throws in an …
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The Strokes, Robyn, Wu-Tang Clan and Disclosure lead the 2020 lineup for the III Points Festival in Miami, Florida, which will be held May 1st and 2nd at Mana Wynwood in the Wynwood Arts District. The art, technology and music festival announced its eclectic, forward-thinking dance music and indie rock …
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Steve Martin Caro, lead singer of the Sixties baroque-pop band the Left Banke, has died at the age of 71. Caro’s death was first announced on a Left Banke Facebook fan page that both he and surviving members of the group frequented; the group’s Twitter later confirmed the singer’s death, …
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