St. Vincent performed her stripped-down rendition of “New York” during Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s Brooklyn residency Tuesday. The radical reworking of the track features on Annie Clark’s new album Masseducation, which reinterprets the songs off her 2017 LP Masseduction. While the original take of “New York” boasted strings, multi-tracked vocals and …
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Idina Menzel unveiled a stunning cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” The track will appear as a bonus song on the singer’s upcoming album, Idina: Live, which arrives October 12th. Menzel’s version of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” boasts a simple piano arrangement that’s bolstered perfectly by an …
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Esperanza Spalding is determined to turn her music into an event. After writing and recording her 2017 album, Exposure, during a continuous 77-hour live stream, she’s devised a similarly splashy roll-out for12 Little Spells. This time, she’s unveiling one song per day at 12:12 p.m. EST for 12 days — …
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There’s a simple but effective formula to a Sheck Wes song: a bass-rattling beat, off-key singing, basketball references and a lot of “bitch” ad-libs. Also, the Harlem rapper loves to say his own name. It doesn’t matter if it’s the basis of a hook (“Live Sheck Wes, bitch, I’m dying …
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Tina, a musical based on the life and music of Tina Turner, will open make its Broadway debut in Fall 2019. It is currently playing at the Aldwych Theatre in London’s West End. Tinamade its world premiere in London in April 2018 and will continue to run there for the …
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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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“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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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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