If you don’t know Supa Bwe, you know his sound. The 29-year-old Chicago rapper has championed a combustible blend of hip hop, pop-punk, and R&B and helped carve out what would become a fertile, crowded lane occupied by younger stars like Lil Uzi Vert, XXXTENTACION, Trippie Redd, and YNW Melly. …
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Former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello recruited another guitar hero, Gary Clark Jr., for his new song, “Can’t Stop the Bleeding,” which he’s releasing ahead of his upcoming tour. The track, which also features electronic music producer Gramatik, starts off like a fairly straightforward blues rocker. Clark sings …
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Juice WRLD brought his smooth-talking rhythms to the stage of The Tonight Show with a performance of “Hear Me Calling,” a track off his recent album Death Race for Love. The relatively low-key live rendition of the song follows its video game-inspired music video, which dropped last month. In the …
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Faye Webster released a new song “Flowers,” which features Atlanta rapper Father. Webster also released a video of the single, accompanied by new tour dates. “What do you prefer?/I don’t have that much to offer,” Webster sings in the clip, laying in a bed of vibrant flowers. The floral theme …
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Beyoncé released the first trailer for Homecoming, a documentary film about her legendary headlining performance at Coachella in 2018. The trailer features the voice of Maya Angelou, overlaying previously unseen footage from rehearsals leading up to the Coachella performance. The film will premiere on Netflix on April 17th – between …
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Not long after the London-based singer Nilüfer Yanya signed with an American label in 2017, she ran headlong into a creative wall. “Knowing that whatever I wrote might be on the album, that put a block on my head,” she explains. At first she responded to the pressure with perverse …
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Spanish superstar Rosalía touched down on Buenos Aires last Friday afternoon, to make what would be her first appearance at Lollapalooza Argentina. Luckily for her many fans who missed the show, the livestream broadcast of her full set is now available to watch online. Rosalía performed two songs she wrote …
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You haven’t truly lived until you’ve been on the business end of a David Lee Roth zinger. “Can you do a drum sound, like in dance music? Everybody has their own version,” he asks mere seconds into our phone call. After a few oomph-oomph-oomphs, he cuts me short. “All right, …
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Lil Uzi Vert is back. On Thursday, the rapper released his first solo song since 2018’s “New Patek.” It also ends his early retirement from music, which he announced via Instagram in January. The new song — “Free Uzi” — arrives under strained circumstances. Since his announced “retirement,” Uzi has …
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On Friday night, the Zombies will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and deservedly so. Few keepsakes of the British Invasion sound as non-musty as “She’s Not There,” their first hit, or “Time of the Season,” their last. Colin Blunstone’s singing, which seems to float above …
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