Phil Elverum is set to drop his first album as the Microphones in 17 years, Microphones in 2020, out August 7th on P.W. Elverum & Sun. The new album comprises one 44-minute song and will also include an album-length short film, out August 6th. On Tuesday, June 16th, Elverum released …
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Norah Jones‘ eleventh studio album, Pick Me Up Off the Floor, is out now. On Friday, the singer-songwriter and pianist shared a new music video, “To Live,” alongside the LP’s release. Filmed in quarantine, the clip shows a stylized Jones and several bandmembers — drummer Nate Smith, bassist Jesse Murphy, trumpeter …
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Dead Cross have shared their cover of Black Flag’s “Rise Above,” which the hardcore supergroup recorded in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The band’s rendition of the Damaged classic was accompanied by footage of the recent protests in Los Angeles — as well as instances of police brutality …
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Vince Johnson, whose music first reached millions of households through the Netflix documentaryTiger King, put out a new ramshackle country-rock song on Friday. Johnson was mostly unknown before the show, but that has changed: The release of “Killer Carole” was accompanied by the announcement of his new publishing deal with …
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History is a fickle motherfucker, but you gotta hand it to whatever forces have aligned to drop a new Run the Jewels record in this particular moment. By the fourth installment, most pop culture franchises can start to seem pretty tired. Not El-P and Killer Mike: On RTJ4, the duo …
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Billie Eilish penned a lengthy essay Saturday that supported Black Lives Matter, touched on white privilege and demanded justice for George Floyd. “I’ve been trying to take this week to figure out a way to address this delicately,” the singer prefaced. “I have an enourmous [sic] platform and I try …
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If you didn’t parade around your room in 1999 wearing blue eyeshadow while blasting “… Baby One More Time” on your stereo, you missed out. It was a golden age for girl groups and boy bands, a time when pop stars flourished and tabloids knew no bounds. The Internet was …
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“I came to Key West [Florida] with a little bit of luggage and a lot of songs,” says Jimmy Buffett, who talks about his entire career, including its earliest days, in a wide-ranging conversation with senior writer Brian Hiatt on the latest episode of the Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition …
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Ellie Goulding revealed on Wednesday that she will be releasing her fourth album, Brightest Blue, on July 17th via Interscope Records. The 18-track LP will have two sides, “Brightest Blue” and “EG.0,” and feature collaborations with serpentwithfeet, blackbear, Lauv, Diplo, Swae Lee and Juice WRLD. “[The album’s first half] reflects …
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Future‘s High Off Life waltzed to Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The 21 songs on High Off Life amassed 155 million streams, led by the long-running hit “Life Is Good,” a collaboration with Drake. Future’s release also sold 26,000 copies — thanks to more …
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