The K-Pop group SuperMbeat out the R&B singer Summer Walker to earn the top album on the latest RS 200. SuperM contains members of the already-popular groups EXO, SHINee, NCT 127, and WayV. The new ensemble’s Number One debut with The 1st Mini Album was the result of a massive …
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This week’s installment of Walking the Floor finds Kendell Marvel returning to the show for a third time, having most recently chatted with podcast host Chris Shiflett during an episode recorded backstage at Dierks Bentley’s Seven Peaks Festival. The pair’s newest conversation revolves around Solid Gold Sounds, the solo album …
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Schadenfreude may be universal, but the keen, delightful unease of watching HBO‘s Succession — whose second season wraps this Sunday evening — is particularly amplified for anyone who works in media, the industry of total chaos over which the show’s magnificently out-of-touch plutocrats preside. In response to deep obsession and/or …
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The well-coiffed guys from the new K-pop supergroup, SuperM, are sitting around a conference room at the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles, and feeling like they may have left something on the table. Two days earlier, the seven-piece unit — put together using members from four established K-pop boy …
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FKA Twigs taps into the suburban experience in her new video for “Home with You,” off of her upcoming album Magdalene, out October 25th. It depicts a hazy club scene that transforms into a journey back to the English countryside. “‘Home with You’ is a record that I’ve written from …
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Kim Shattuck, the singer and guitarist who co-founded and led the SoCal punk band the Muffs alongside contributions to Pixies and NOFX, died Wednesday at the age of 56. A rep for Shattuck’s band the Coolies confirmed her death to Rolling Stone. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). “We …
Read More »Chance the Rapper, Future Lead Rolling Loud Los Angeles 2019 Lineup
Chance the Rapper, Future, A$AP Rocky and Meek Mill lead the lineup for Rolling Loud’s 2019 Los Angeles edition. Lil Uzi Vert, Juice WRLD, Young Thug, Lil Baby and Playboi Carti will also headline the hip-hop festival, set for December 14th and 15th at Banc of California Stadium. Other performers …
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Following the release of her inaugural LP When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? earlier this year, Billie Eilish made her Saturday Night Live debut as musical guest, appearing on the Woody Harrelson-hosted Season 45 premiere. Appearing in a box made to look like Grand Central station in …
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Ahead of her Saturday Night Live debut, Billie Eilish has announced the North American leg of her Where Do We Go? World Tour, which finds the singer invading arenas in 2020. The trek kicks off March 9th in Miami, Florida and includes stops at venues like New York’s Madison Square …
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David Hasselhoff dropped a sprightly rendition of Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Head On” featuring the Cars‘ Elliot Easton on guitar. The shoegaze cover will appear on Hasselhoff’s upcoming LP Open Your Eyes, out September 27th via Cleopatra Records. The Baywatch icon stays true to the original “Head On,” which Jesus …
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