Shawn Mendes visited The Tonight Show to play a crisp version of his single “Lost in Japan” on Thursday, September 28th. He also engaged in a sing-off with Jimmy Fallon during a goofy game called “Slay It, Don’t Spray It” and discussed his cross-genre ambitions and his upcoming appearance at …
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At an Eighties-style high-school homecoming dance, Muse performs the upbeat “Pressure” – with an upright bass and backing brass groups – before a group of rather bemused-looking teenagers and a chaperone, Terry Crews. When two students ride their bikes into the science lab, things go horribly wrong with a sequence …
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Marissa Nadler has some thoughts on the word “haunting.” “I think it does a little bit of a disservice to my music to describe it as just haunting, because there’s a lot of substance in the writing and craft,” the 37-year-old musician says over the phone from her home in …
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“Yes sir, I am wet,” declaresHélöise Letissieron “Girlfriend,” a non-binary lust-fest with slithering keytar from Cali synth scientistDâm-Funk. The lead single from the French pop heroine’s second album under the moniker Christine & The Queens arrived with a striking video – the only sortLetissier makes –riffing visually off Charles C. …
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“What is it that Mumford & Sons do?” asks the band’s keyboard player Ben Lovett. “That’s what we are searching for. I really hope this record will continue to broaden the sense of what that means.” On their third album, 2015’s Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons traded banjo and acoustic …
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UPDATE (11/12): Kanye West again delayed his new album Yandhi, from its planned Black Friday arrival to an indefinite release date. “It felt so good being on the stage last night with my brother Cudi. After performing again, I realize the new album I’ve been working on isn’t ready yet,” …
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Carrie Underwood got ample screen time on Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she sat for an interview before capping off the show with a performance of “Love Wins” from her newly released album Cry Pretty. Rather than in Fallon’s studio, Underwood’s performance took place on …
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On Thursday night, one of the off-campus AmericanaFest offerings is “Queer Roots,” a new showcase organized with the goal of celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities represented across the roots music community. Sponsored in association with Rolling Stone Country, the Change Project, BriteHeart, and Hearth PR, the event …
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Lana Del Rey teams with Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff for a folky, psychedelic new song “Mariners Apartment Complex.” The track, which premiered Wednesday on BBC1, is expected to appear on her upcoming, Antonoff-produced sixth LP. Del Rey ruminates on two of her favorite subjects, sadness and romance, throughout the brooding track. …
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“How does it feel every time I let you down?” sings the Marías’ mononymic frontwoman — the only actual María in the band — on “Clueless.” It’s the second single off the L.A. players’ upcoming EPSuperclean Vol. II, out September 28th. Inspired by a spat between the vocalist and her …
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