Jay Som has a close encounter of the third kind in the latest video for “Nighttime Drive.” The song is the third single off the indie rock hero’s upcoming sophomore album, Anak Ko, out August 23rd via Polyvinyl Records. A slice-of-life snapshot from tour, the warm, folk-rock stride of “Nighttime …
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Ari Lennox turns up the seduction in her new video for “BMO.” The video for the song, which appears on her recently released LP, Shea Butter Baby, was inspired by visuals from Missy Elliott and Total. In the Child-directed video, the R&B singer’s sultry vocals are vibrantly matched by the …
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At first listen, Panamanian singer Sech might be easily mistaken for a long lost Latino member of Boyz II Men. (And had he been alive in 1991, he surely would have finessed the band’s Spanish-language hit, “Al Final de Camino.”) As part of a new generation of Latin pop stars …
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R. Kelly was charged with soliciting a minor for sexual purposes and soliciting prostitution from someone under 18 today in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The alleged incident took place 18 years ago, in July 2001, according to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. The StarTribune said it was unclear if Kelly would …
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Red Hearse have shared “Everybody Wants You,” an emotional track off the group’s upcoming self-titled debut album. On the pop-tinged ballad, the band, thenew trio of Bleachers frontmanJack Antonoff, singer Sam Dew and producer Sounwave, lament a hard-to-reach lover. The lyrics reveal an effort to win someone over (“I could …
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Brockhampton have unveiled their new song and video for “I Been Born Again.” It’s the first single the group has released since 2018’s Number One-charting Iridescence, and also the first new music they’ve unveiled this year. In the Spencer Ford-directed visual, a foreboding beat sets the tone for the primarily …
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The Hollywood Vampires — the supergroup of Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper and Joe Perry — performed their cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” on The Late Late Show With James Corden Tuesday. Depp fronted the epic slow-burner with expert care and attention, starting his vocals at a rumble and building, with …
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Death Cab for Cutie pay tribute to three children who died 20 years ago in a freak explosion on “Kids in ’99,” a sweet and somber song off their upcoming release, The Blue EP, out September 6th. On June 10th, 1999, a gas pipeline operated by the Olympic Pipeline Company …
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Trisha Yearwood wrestles with heartache and shadows from the past in the intensely dramatic “Workin’ on Whiskey,” the latest preview of the singer’s forthcoming album, Every Girl. Backed by keening guitars, Yearwood’s vocals move from delicately tender to powerfully agonizing as she equates romance with hard liquor, singing, “I’ve tried …
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Since moving to Charleston Danny McBride has welcomed several famous friends to his home, but none so strange as Kanye West. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote his new HBO series The Righteous Gemstones the actor described a truly insane day with the rapper. “I had a …
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