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Bright Eyes have shared a cover of Thin Lizzy’s ‘Running Back’ as part of Secretly Canadian’s 25th anniversary celebration. The band originally recorded their version of the song in August 2020 for a SiriusXM Session, but the cover was given an official release yesterday (January 14) as part of the label’s ongoing singles series, which aims
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Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has dropped a new track with The Game called ‘Eazy’. The pair have shared numerous collaborations in the past, including 2005’s ‘Crack Music’, 2007’s ‘Wouldn’t Get Far’, 2012’s ‘Jesus Piece’, and 2015’s ‘Mula’. Listen to ‘Eazy’ below. In the new single, Ye addresses his pending divorce from
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Lamar’s PGLang, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are producing a new, racially-charged comedy. By Grant Rindner January 14, 2022 Kendrick Lamar performs during Lollapalooza Buenos Aires 2019 at Hipodromo de San Isidro on March 31, 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Courtesy of Santiago Bluguermann/Getty We’re still all eagerly awaiting Kendrick Lamar’s new album, but in the
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Brockhampton have today announced they are taking an “indefinite hiatus.” On Instagram, the LA-based hip-hop collective revealed that their upcoming shows – at the O2 Academy Brixton in London on February 7 and both weekends of Coachella 2022 – will be their “final performances as a group.” They’ve also cancelled all the other dates of
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deathcrash have released ‘Doomcrash’, the final preview of their forthcoming debut LP Return. The track follows previous singles ‘Horses’ and ‘Unwind’. Listen to it below. Talking about the new song, bassist Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement: This all started with a really over-the-top doom riff I would play on the bass in rehearsal sometimes,
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The Weeknd’s new album, Dawn FM, uses radio as a narrative device. But he’s not the first to do it. By Al Shipley January 13, 2022 Illustration by Michael Houtz. Photographs by Getty Images.  Last week, The Weeknd dropped the year’s first blockbuster album, Dawn FM. His last album, After Hours, unspooled a cinematic storyline
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Jenny Gillespie Mason was pregnant with her second child when the idea of Sis started coming together in 2015. The Bay Area-based singer and composer, who is also the founder of Native Cat Recordings, had already been putting out records under her own name for several years, and the new project was born partly out
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Alynda Segarra has previewed her upcoming Hurray for the Riff Raff album with a new single, ‘Pierced Arrows’. Following previous offerings ‘Rhododendron’ and ‘Jupiter’s Dance’, the track arrives alongside a video directed by New Orleans artist Lucia Honey. Check it out below. According to Segarra, ‘Pierced Arrows’ is “a heartbreak song, lost in the realm of
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UK post-hardcore band Rolo Tomassi have released a new song called ‘Closer’, taken from their upcoming album Where Myth Becomes Memory. It arrives today alongside a video directed by David Gregory. Check it out below. “We wanted to show a completely different side to the record by releasing this single,” keyboardist and vocalist James Spence said
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Plus: that time he watched beefy Christian muscle men rip phone books in half. By Gabriella Paiella January 10, 2022 Danny McBride.Kevin Winter / Getty Images On Sunday, HBO premiered a new season of its acclaimed comedy series about three fuckup siblings idiotically vying for control of their perpetually disappointed father’s corrupt empire. That’s right,
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If an awards show happens with no broadcast, does it even really exist? By Keith Phipps January 10, 2022 Brad Pitt poses in the press room during the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 05, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.Courtesy of Kevin Winter/Getty Images. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association,
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Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, and Julien Baker have announced a co-headlining tour of the United States. The Wild Hearts Tour kicks off in Virginia on July 21 and will run until August, with support from Brooklyn-via-Rochester singer-producer Spencer.. In partnership with PLUS1, a dollar from every ticket will support people rebuilding their lives after incarceration;
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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is a memorable spectacle for the eyes, capturing the enormous scale of Frank Herbert’s story on a vivid visual medium. Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser, who has previously worked on films such as Lion, Zero Dark Thirty, Let Me In, and Rogue One, worked together with Villeneuve to bring to life the wonder and the horror of
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James Mtume, the percussionist, songwriter, and producer who performed with jazz greats before leading his own eponymous group, has died at the age of 75. The news was confirmed by his son to Pitchfork, among other sources. No cause of death was revealed. The daughter of Mtume’s late creative partner Reggie Lucas, Lisa Lucas, wrote
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Believe it or not, we’re apparently going to see a softer side of Fez this season. By Frazier Tharpe January 9, 2022 Angus Cloud in Euphoria.Courtesy of Eddy Chen/HBO. It’s been almost two-and-a-half years since HBO’s Zendaya-fronted teen drama Euphoria wrapped its first season, and in season 2 (which began an eight-week run tonight), creator-writer-director
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Michael Lang, the co-creator and organizer of the 1969 music festival Woodstock, has died at the age of 77, Variety reports. He passed away on Saturday at Sloan Kettering in New York City. The cause of death was a rare form of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to family spokesperson Michael Pagnotta. Born in Brooklyn in 1944, Lang
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Public pleas to reconcile, real estate drama and two famous rebounds: The mega-couple’s news cycle continues even in divorce. By Grant Rindner January 7, 2022 Kanye West in Chelsea on January 05, 2022 in New York City.Courtesy of Gotham/Getty. We’re creeping up on a year since Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from Kanye West, but
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Calvin Simon, a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, died on Thursday. “We lost another Original member of Parliament/Funkadelic,” former P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins wrote in a statement on Twitter. “A friend, bandmate & a cool classic guy, Mr. Calvin Simon was a former member of Parliament/Funkadelic. He’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in
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Nashville pop-country singer Maren Morris has unveiled a new single, ‘Circles Around This Town’, alongside an accompanying music video. The track was written by Morris with frequent collaborators Ryan Hurd, Julia Michaels and Jimmy Robbins and produced by Greg Kurstin. Check out the Harper Smith-directed visual below. “I could see the visuals for ‘Circles Around
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The legendary director, who died Thursday at the age of 82, had a memorable role on The Sopranos as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg—a.k.a. Tony Soprano’s therapist’s therapist. By Gabriella Paiella January 7, 2022 Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot KupferbergCourtesy of HBO Peter Bogdanovich, director and titan of 1970s Hollywood, died on Thursday at the age of
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