The long-anticipated collaboration between Lady Gaga and mega-popular K-pop group Blackpink is finally here. “Sour Candy,” from Gaga’s upcoming albumChromatica, dropped on Thursday morning, providing a sugar-sweet club track for all our at-home parties. “I’m sour candy, so sweet then I get a little angry,” Jennie and Lisa of Blackpink …
Read More »Gorillaz Celebrate 20-Year Visual History With Expansive 'Almanac' Book
More than 20 years after Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett first conceived of Gorillaz, the visual history of the cartoon band will be explored in an expansive “almanac” due out this October. The Gorillaz Almanac, published by Z2 Comics, will feature 120-plus full-color pages featuring Hewlett’s artwork for the band. …
Read More »The 1975 Would Like to Invent the Future
Matty Healy knows exactly how and why he’s just been canceled. It’s Tuesday afternoon, about an hour after Notes on a Conditional Form, the sprawling, undefinable fourth album from his band, the 1975, leaked online in full. Some of the band’s most hardcore fans — people who couldn’t wait the …
Read More »The 1975's 'Notes on a Conditional Form' Is a Meandering Search for Meaning
Learning to enjoy the 1975 has always required a certain suspension of disbelief. If you can believe that a boy-band-pretty synth-pop quartet from Manchester with a poodle-haired lead singer can create nuanced, voice-of-a-generation anthems hidden inside layers upon layers of irony and bombast, then consider yourself a fan. Matty Healy, …
Read More »Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ashley McBryde Team for 'Outlaw Blood' Video
Ray Wylie Hubbard and Ashley McBryde maintain social distancing guidelines in the video for their new collaboration “Outlaw Blood.” The song will appear on the beloved singer-songwriter’s guest-heavy album Co-Starring, due out July 10th via Big Machine. Hubbard lends his idiosyncratic singing style to a story about a tough woman …
Read More »Harry Styles Dedicates 'Watermelon Sugar' Video to the Much-Missed Act of Touching
Harry Styles has released a colorful, beach-set video for his latest single “Watermelon Sugar.” The track appears on the pop star’s sophomore album, Fine Line, released lastDecember. Filmed in January on a Malibu beach, the video opens with a cheeky dedication to “touching.” Styles is first seen walking up to …
Read More »Noah Cyrus Details 'The End of Everything' EP Track by Track, Unveils 'Young & Sad' Visualizer
Noah Cyrus‘ The End of Everything EP will be available on Friday via RECORDS/Columbia and to preview its release, the singer unveiled a new animated visualizer for the single “Young & Sad.” The clip opens with a message from her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus. She tells Rolling Stone it was …
Read More »Bad Bunny in Captivity
S omewhere on the northern shore of Puerto Rico sits a modest Airbnb with white stucco walls and a roof covered in fake grass. Inside, the island’s most exciting young superstar is fighting off boredom any way he can. It’s mid-March, days after Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced ordered …
Read More »Bob Dylan Cancels U.S. Summer Tour in 'Interest of Public Health and Safety'
Bob Dylan‘s U.S. summer tour has been canceled. The trek — originally scheduled to kickoff on June 4th in Bend, Oregon at Les Schwab Amphitheatre and to wrap on July 12th in Bethel Woods, New York at Bethel Woods Center of the Arts — could not be rescheduled for 2020, …
Read More »Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd Lead 'Back to the Future' Reunion on Josh Gad's 'Reunited Apart'
The cast of the Back to the Future films, including Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, reunited on the second episode of Josh Gad‘s new YouTube series, Reunited Apart. The episode included appearances from other cast members Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen and Elisabeth Shue, plus a surprise appearance at the …
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