Chris Shiflett‘s Walking the Floor podcast returns today with a new episode spotlighting Quaker City Night Hawks. Recorded several months ago amidst the chaos of the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, the interview captures the Texas-based band during the seventh week of a promotional tour in support of their …
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“Old Town Road” is so much more than a hit at this point — it’s like centuries of American music were all building up to these 113 seconds of genius. Lil Nas X’s yeehaw manifesto has been the great national obsession ever since it blew up in March, which feels …
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Los Angeles boy band Why Don’t We talked about their decision to cover a song by rapper Juice WRLD on this week’s edition of Spotify Under Cover. The pop group’s rendition of “Lucid Dreams” is a simplified acoustic version — they harmonized and slowed down the tempo for a gentler …
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Twenty years ago in June — just weeks shy of her 30th trip around the sun — Jennifer Lopez released her 1999 debut, On the 6. This summer the superstar not only celebrates her golden 50th, but decades of pop music prowess with her It’s My Party Tour, a 32-night …
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Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens delivered an inspired rendition of “I’m on My Way” this morning on NBC’s Today on Monday. Giddens performed the song, a highlight from her new albumThere Is No Other, with her three-piece band, which includes her latest primary collaborator, Francesco Turrisi. “I don’t know where …
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In today’s música urbana landscape, Panama often doesn’t get the credit it deserves. As the birthplace of plena, the style that later synthesized into the Puerto Rican underground and became reggaeton, the impact of Panama in molding today’s effervescent urbano landscape cannot be overstated. Today, the go-to reference point for …
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The 1975 have announced a string of North American arena shows this fall in support of their latest album, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. The five-date trek will kick off November 16th at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey and include stops in Raleigh, North Carolina, Greenville, South …
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Since first crossing paths in 2013, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and Nashville’s Tim Montana have bonded over blues-rock, beards, and barbecue. They combine all three in the new song “Good ‘Ol BBQ,” their first release under the name the Whisker Brothers. It’s a feel-good tune, tailor-made for the American summer …
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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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This year has been awash with nostalgia for the final year of the Sixties and the end of the 20th Century (a.k.a. 1999), but Stranger Things is bringing the Eighties back in a, like, totally major way. The upcoming third season of the hit Netflix series (set to premiere July …
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