Sam Elliott uses his incomparable drawl to recite the lyrics of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” in a Western saloon in a teaser for an upcoming Super Bowl LIV commercial. The spot finds Elliott in his full-on “Stranger from The Big Lebowski” cowboy persona as he sits down at …
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In 2019, the success of Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road” made every other single look puny in comparison. The track amassed more than 2 billion streams, 1 billion more than the runner-up. And even though no one buys music anymore, Lil Nas X sold nearly 1.5 million downloads — …
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Gary Clark Jr. talked the Grammys, religion, his new album This Land and his Texas beginnings in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning. “I was raised real religious – Baptist, go to church every Sunday. The fear of God was very present in the house,” Clark Jr. said. “I’m not, …
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One week ahead of the release of their ninth studio album, Little Big Town offer an advance listen to the title cut from Nightfall. “Turn the lights down, we can watch the stars crawl/You and I fall, baby, when the night falls,” Karen Fairchild sings, as her bandmates harmonize behind …
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“The Box” isn’t the best song on Roddy Ricch‘s (great) debut album, Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial (that would be “God’s Eye”). It’s also not the most ambitious (“War Baby”), or the obvious hit single single (“High Fashion”). It is, however, the album’s biggest hit since its release in …
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Spike Jonze‘s long collaboration and friendship with the Beastie Boys will be the focus of an upcoming photo book, the first from the Oscar-nominated director and music video visionary. Beastie Boys, out March 17th, 2020 via Rizzoli, collects over 200 of Jonze’s personal photographs of the trailblazing trio. Surviving Beastie …
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Travis Scott cruises around in a fancy Bugatti in his gritty video for “Gatti,” a track from the emcee’s new Cactus Jack Records compilation EP, JackBoys. Pop Smoke also appears in the lo-fi clip, rapping from the passenger seat as Scott steers around at night. Directors Cactus Jack and White …
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Sharon Van Etten tapped Norah Jones for a performance of “Seventeen” on The Late Show. The live rendition of the track, which comes off Van Etten’s album Remind Me Tomorrow, saw both singers joining voices as Jones played keys alongside Van Etten’s acoustic guitar. The song takes on an emotional …
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So, How Was Your Decadeis a series in which the decade’s most innovative musicians answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their decade. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Ever since Slipknot broke out in the late Nineties, frontman Corey Taylor has become …
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Wham!’s “Last Christmas” has gotten a holiday makeover. A 4k restoration of the music video for the iconic Eighties Christmas song is now available on YouTube, provided by the original director Andy Morahan. The clip for “Last Christmas” was originally filmed in 1984 at a Swiss resort called Saas-Fee, and …
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