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When Tanya Tucker arrived at Sunset Sound Recording Studio in Los Angeles to begin work on her new album While I’m Livin‘, cameras were rolling as soon as the “Delta Dawn” singer walked through the door. It was the first time that Tucker met Brandi Carlile, a longtime fan who …

By the time “It’s Nice to Have a Friend” arrives on Lover, her seventh and most epic album, Taylor Swift has entered uncharted territory. For one thing, it’s the 17th song here, and none of her previous albums have run more than 16 tracks. (Lover actually contains 18.) More importantly, …

Diplo partners up with “Whiskey Glasses” singer Morgan Wallen for the moody collaboration “Heartless,” the latest taste of the electronic producer’s country-influenced Thomas Wesley project. Employing a less-is-more approach, Diplo and Wallen come up with something approaching trap-country balladry. “Say you’re going out late, I count down ’til you call …

On Thursday, Miranda Lambert announced plans for hew new album, the follow-up to 2017’s The Weight of These Wings. Titled Wildcard, the project will be released November 1st via Vanner Records/RCA Records Nashville and is Lambert’s first full-length project overseen by producer Jay Joyce. Along with the announcement, Lambert issued …

Sleater-Kinney deliver the goods almost immediately on their new LP, on a title track that begins with industrial clangs, then explodes into rock fury rivaling anything in their catalog, a barrage ofNevermind-grade guitar blasts pacing Corin Tucker’s cathartic, paint-peeling howls. She paraphrases the famous “Things fall apart, the center cannot …

Tyler, the Creator has enlisted Solange, YG and Brockhampton to perform at his eighth annual Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, taking place November 9th and 10th at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium. Other performers include H.E.R., Thundercat, Willow Smith, 21 Savage, Blood Orange, DaBaby, Juice WRLD, Earl Sweatshirt, Clairo, The Internet, FKA …

So what’s the final Beatles album? Abbey Road or Let It Be? If you’re a Beatles fan, you’ve had at least one chemically-assisted late-night argument about this (because that’s what we do). Abbey Road was the last they recorded, but Let It Be was the last they released. So did …

Two years ago, Omar Apollo was sitting in the attic where he was living in the small town of Hobart, Indiana, with his guitar and laptop. He recorded a two-minute marvel of achingly tender R&B called “Ugotme,” which a friend persuaded him to upload to Spotify. The next day, the …

Slipknot proclaim themselves “the bitter, the maladjusted and the wise, fighting off a generation too uptight” on their menacing new song “Birth of the Cruel.” The track will appear on the metal band’s upcoming sixth LP, We Are Not Your Kind, out Friday, August 9th. “Birth of the Cruel” — …

In the middle of January, with temperatures hovering around zero degrees, John Smith and his colleagues at Smithsonian Folkways drove a truck up to a 19th century homestead in Sharon, Connecticut to pick up a record label. For over 50 years, the remolded barn and carriage house had been the …