Elton John is no Rich Homie Quan, 6lack is the anti-Gunna and On The Rvn is a pit stop that could been an entire road trip. Young Thug’s latest EP, which dropped late Sunday night, is a pop-leaning journey where the Atlanta rapper cedes the spotlight to a Rolodex of …
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October 1st marks the one-year anniversary of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting in Las Vegas, where a gunman opened fire on a crowd of country music fans, killing 58 and injuring more than 500. It stands as the worst mass shooting in modern United States history. On Friday night, …
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Metric showcase the bleak side of late-night clubbing when you can feel more alone even when surrounded by many people in their video for “Now or Never Now.” The track appears on new album, Art of Doubt, which was released today. Directed by Jack Nicholson’s daughter, Lorraine, the clip features …
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J.I.D’s “151 Rum” is an unrelenting song. Over the Christo and Nice Rec production, the Atlanta rapper launches into a double-time flow that would make André 3000 circa-2000’s “B.O.B.” proud. In the hands of most rappers, adding the subtitle “A Film By” to a song would be obnoxious at best, …
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Billy Currington returns today with the new song “Bring It on Over,” the singer’s first release since the 2017 single “Wake Me Up.” Written by Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip and Jesse Frasure and produced by Frasure with Dann Huff, “Bring It on Over” is sleek, modern radio country …
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Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), the mentally ill hero of the new Netflix drama Maniac, is obsessed with what’s real and what isn’t. It’s hard to blame him, since his illness often manifests itself as a hallucinatory doppelganger of his horrible brother Jed (Billy Magnussen), who sends Owen on nonexistent spy …
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“I keep having these memories. I see flashes. I think I have a life here,” Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers says in the first trailer for Captain Marvel. “But I can’t tell if it’s real.” The clip opens with her dramatically falling from the sky on to a Blockbuster video store’s …
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Last week, I attempted to review Amazon’s Forever despite a pretty exhaustive Do Not Reveal list from the show’s creators, Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard. All eight episodes of the first season are available now, so if you’ve watched it and want to think more about it — or if …
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Before the summer 2016 release of Telefone, the debut album that launched her to a quiet kind of stardom, Noname considered quitting rap. “I used to care-give, so I probably would’ve went back to doing that,” she says. “Maybe would’ve got my nursing degree, and just become a nurse. That …
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Seven years ago, the kids couldn’t get enough of arena-ready electronic dance music. Scan the Hot 100 today, and the subgenre looks like an endangered species. So producers who once waltzed to the top of the charts have been forced to drastically change their approach. Some have been trendy: The …
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