Drake claimed the top spot on Rolling Stone‘s inaugural Artists 500 chart, notching a whopping 109.6 million streams during the week of June 21st through June 27th. Drake ruled the ranking thanks to the success of his first two new songs of 2019, “Money in the Grave” and “Omertà,” which …
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Courtney Barnett joined Wilco onstage for a “karaoke” performance of “Handshake Drugs” at the band’s Solid Sound Festival this weekend. The annual festival, which takes place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, featured a set on Friday called “Wilco Karaoke,” where other artists and fans could sing Wilco songs …
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Liam Gallagher urges fans to question authority on his heavy new song “The River.” Over a dark guitar drone and distant drum thump, the former Oasis frontman belts, “Don’t believe celebrities/The money-sucking MPs, the device in your hands.” On the chorus, he proclaims, “Change comes when the water falls/I’ve been …
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YG released the black-and-white video for “Hard Bottoms & White Socks” on Monday, featuring the rapper performing onstage with a piano and vintage microphone in front of a star-studded audience. Big Boi, Kamaiyah, Machine Gun Kelly and more were among the familiar faces in the head-bobbing crowd, which gave YG …
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In March 1971, the Allman Brothers Band famously set up shop at the Fillmore East in New York City and recorded what would become one of the most acclaimed live albums of all-time, At Fillmore East. Two months prior, the band was tuning up for those famed gigs at the …
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Lana Del Rey has previewed her upcoming album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, with a snippet of the title track. The singer posted a video clip of her lip-syncing the track on Instagram, writing, “This is so much my favorite for so many reasons.” https://www.instagram.com/p/BywLYMmHWJ4/ The song was produced by Jack Antonoff, …
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One night in December 1958, Ray Charles and his band were scheduled to play a four-hour set at a Pittsburgh dance hall. At the time, this was a regular gig for the singer-pianist, a promising Atlantic-signed artist who had broken through with his 1954 single “I Got a Woman.” Charles …
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The Futureheads will release Powers, the band’s first album in seven years, August 30th. The band previewed the release with a raucous, dramatic single called “Jekyll,” a track that recalls the group’s earlier albums. The Futureheads’ last album, Rant, dropped in 2012. The album ignored the angular guitar riffs of …
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Moby has canceled the U.K. and Ireland dates of a book tour promoting his new memoir, Then It Fell Apart, days after Natalie Portman criticized a passage from the text in which he describes dating the actress two decades ago. “I’m going to go away for awhile,” Moby wrote on …
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Perry Farrell unleashes a blast of blistering agitprop in the video for his new song, “Pirate Punk Politician.” The track will appear on the Jane’s Addiction frontman’s new album, Kind Heaven, out June 7th via BMG. Per a statement, the video was directed by a collection of artists known as …
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