Bebe Rexha‘s voice makes a quirky, squirmy sound that may not be your cup of squeak. But if it is, then it’s crazily irresistible and, given the right melody, unstoppable. Her serpentine wail is the precious ingredient in some of today’s biggest hits, the factor that’s turned otherwise bland songs …
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Last time we heard from Ruston Kelly in April’s foul-mouthed “Asshole,” the Nashville alt-folkie was getting himself thrown in jail. On his aching new song “Jericho,” the first to be premiered from his debut LP Dying Star, the walls he’s surrounded by are metaphorical. “Jericho” finds Kelly channeling the dark …
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When Teyana Taylor’s new album arrives on Friday, it will mark the end of a bold experiment in distribution: Five seven-track albums over five weeks, each produced by Kanye West. Less remarked upon is the fact that West is overseeing an album by an R&B singer – a rare activity …
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All hail the greatest rock video trilogy of all time – Aerosmith‘s Alicia Silverstone Trilogy, which kicked off 25 years ago this week. The future Clueless starlet played the plucky teen heroine of three perfect videos – “Cryin’,” “Amazing” and “Crazy.” As soon as “Cryin’” hit MTV in the summer …
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Flying Lotus has offered up an enthralling new track titled “Heroes Pt. 5” to the Adult Swim Singles series. Keeping with the producer’s mind-bending, genre-blending style, the new song’s atmospheric synths glide along untethered from its propulsive beat and space funk bass lines. The track also samples and manipulates dialogue …
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Kesha announced a four-day Caribbean cruise festival that sets sail February 17th through 21st of 2019. The singer will perform two unique sets during the Weird and Wonderful Rainbow Ride, which will feature both music and other activities. The initial lineup boasts a diverse mix of musicians and entertainers including …
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Putting Dierks Bentley on a stage in the middle of New York City is a bit like taking a fish out of water – or, in his case, a mountain man out of the wilderness. Tuesday morning, Bentley showed up for a Today Show Summer Concert, where he performed a …
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For Dierks Bentley, there’s nothing quite as welcoming as an elk carcass and a tray of weed brownies, high up in the Colorado mountains. At least that’s what greeted him when he arrived at the Studio in the Clouds, an eco lodge-cum-recording mecca in Telluride, to make his newest LP, …
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Tony Joe White is getting back to his roots, fifty years on from when he cut his first recordings. The swamp-rock veteran’s latest LP, Bad Mouthin’, takes its name from the first song he ever wrote, a grimy country blues that’s only just seeing the light of day after more …
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Talib Kweli is facing accusations of sexual harassment from a former collaborator who claims that the rapper held her career “hostage” after she rejected his advances. Res, an artist who was signed to Kweli’s Javotti Media and appeared on numerous Kweli tracks, made her claims against the rapper (real name …
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