Chilean-American indie-pop star Francisca Valenzuela teams up with L.A.-based producer Alexmaax, A.K.A. Max Hershenow of electronic duo MS MR, in the spellbinding new dance track, “0y1.” This marks Hershenow’s debut under his new solo moniker. An umbral reflection on digital love, “0y1” is the first of several songs that Valenzuela …
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Eight months after scoring a surprise hit with their fan-demanded rendition of Toto’s “Africa,” Weezer surprise-released a full covers LP,Weezer (The Teal Album). The record is out now viaCrush Music/Atlantic Records and available via iTunes, Spotify and other digital retailers. The Teal Album– which arrives weeks before Weezer (The Black …
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On Thursday, Weezer followed up the surprising success of their 2018 cover of Toto’s persistent hit “Africa” withThe Teal Album, a collection of10 faithful covers by the rock band ranging from Black Sabbath (“Paranoid”) to Michael Jackson (“Billie Jean”). The most surprising — and immediate fan favorite — has been …
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5 Seconds of Summer play out a racetrack death-wish in the new “Lie to Me” video, the latest single off their 2018 album, Youngblood. Filmed at Los Angeles’ Irwindale Speedway, the members of 5SOS mope around the track, walking slowly or even hanging out in one of the race cars, like lead …
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Maroon 5 keyboardist PJ Morton has defended the band’s controversial decision to headline the Super Bowl LIII. Maroon 5 have faced a backlash for aligning with the NFL after numerous artists, including Rihanna and Cardi B, declined to perform at the Super Bowl in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. “I think …
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Bradford Cox was 16 years old when he wrote his autobiography for the first time. “The title was The Burden of Time Is Fucked,” he says. It was more like a zine, really —the product of a lonely, queer, working-class kid in Athens, Georgia, reaching out to a future self. …
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O ne day in the summer of 2017, Daniel Hernandez, better known as the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, appeared outside a Brooklyn row house to shoot the video that would make him a star, and eventually ruin his life. Against the menacing strains of his viral hit “Gummo,” he and a …
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In 1994, a 26-year-old R. Kelly married a 15-year-old Aaliyah. In 2001, a sex tape of R. Kelly allegedly urinating on a 14-year-old girl was released to the press. The “Pied Piper of R&B” has been accused of statutory rape, sexual coercion and even maintaining a “sex cult” full of …
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Two years on from the release of her acclaimed LP Spades & Roses, Caroline Spence is prepping the release of her third album Mint Condition, which will feature guest appearances by Emmylou Harris and Ashley Ray. The Nashville singer-songwriter has received several comparisons to Americana leading lights like Patty Griffin …
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The Chief dishes out some fatherly advice to his sons, Joy Williams puts a new spin on a Depeche Mode classic and Kacey Musgraves teams up with Ronnie Milsap in this list of songs to stream this week. Eric Church, “Some of It” The follow-up single to “Desperate Man” finds …
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