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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Breaking free from the New Music Friday deluge, Latin trap singer Cazzu instead kicked off Monday morning with the release her sophomore album, Error 93. Along with the new record, she released a video for lead single “00:00.” In her latest clip, the singer-songwriter sits cozy with a comic book …
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Duff McKagan, Guns N’ Roses’ second-best singer (or is it third-best? where’s Izzy?), gets woke on his mellow new solo album. Amid twanging steel guitars, gospel backup singers and fiddle filigrees, he variously addresses America’s opioid epidemic, school shootings, sexual assault, homelessness and his own transgressions, but it never feels …
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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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In 1992, when Trevor William Church was 10 years old, his dad took him to see Van Halen. It was a typical father-son outing, except for the fact that the band’s then-frontman, Sammy Hagar, happened to be Bill Church’s former boss. That night, the elder Church, who played bass on …
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Will Smith teams with DJ Khaled for a new hip-hop version of “Friend Like Me,” a song from Guy Ritchie’s upcoming live-action remake of Aladdin. Smith adopts a suitably family-friendly, Fresh Prince-style flow for the cut, proclaiming the wish-granting gift of his character, Genie, over a booming bass riff, fluttering …
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With a cutting garage-rock guitar riff and vocals that squeal with excitement, Mattiel sound like they’re embracing their very own manifest destiny — or, at least, making fun of dudes who think that way — on “Je Ne Me Connais Pas,” the latest single from the Atlanta band’s upcoming Satis …
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Sam Hendricks was at an LCD Soundsystem show in 2017 when the idea hit him. Moved by that band’s dancefloor grandeur, Sam wanted to write something for his group, Charly Bliss, “in the same vein as one of [LCD’s] songs, where they take a basic idea and stretch it out …
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Electric Daisy Carnival‘s flagship Las Vegas festival will be livestreamed on four different channels from May 17th through May 19th starting at 6:45 p.m. PT/9:45 p.m. ET daily. Sets and other content from the annual EDM blowout will be available via promotor Insomniac Event’s website, as well as the LiveXLive …
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