Ariana Grande opened the 2018 Billboard Music Awards performing her house-leaning single “No Tears Left to Cry.” Grande was lowered onto the stage on a platform made of umbrellas, where she joined a cadre of male dancers. As she stalked an intricately designed stage – full of arches, staircases and …
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Back in 2013, Courtney Barnett covered Kanye West’s ‘Black Skinhead’ on Australian radio as a guitar-charged glam-grunge stomp, reframing its outrage in her bedhead Melbourne white-girl flow. It was a questionable yet telling move for a fellow verbose storyteller, delivered just as her single “Avant Gardener” – adeceptively offhand first-person …
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Lykke Li celebrates her late mother and her own motherhood in the Swedish singer’s video for “Utopia,” a song from Li’s upcoming new album So Sad So Sexy. Keeping with the Mother’s Day theme, the video presents a montage of personal home movie footage ranging from Li’s childhood to motherhood; …
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Fantastic Negrito‘s crunchy take on blues and R&B channels the paranoia and despair of present-day American life, and on new song “The Duffler” the results are as sinister as ever. The soon-to-be-released LP from Fantastic Negrito, Please Don’t Be Dead, is front man Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz’s plea to his country, …
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LSD, the new supergroup featuring U.K. singer Labrinth, Sia and Diplo, unveiled an exuberant new video for their latest song, “Audio.” TheErnest Desumbila-directed clip opens with Diplo purchasing a used car and finding a fresh LSD tape in the glovebox. As he hits play on “Audio,” the clip jumps to …
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The news dropped earlier this week that Phil Collins is bringing his Not Dead Yet tour to America for a run of arena dates that kicks off October 5th at the BB&T Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The tour began in Liverpool, England last June with a career-spanning set that …
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Carrie Underwood explores the public and private sides of fame in the moody new video for “Cry Pretty.” The country star premiered the clip during Sunday night’s American Idol. Images of Underwood walking dimly lit streets and then down a hotel hallway are intercut with her crying in the shower, …
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U2 faced a big decision when the Joshua Tree Tour 2017wrapped up late last year. The stadium extravaganza – which featured a complete performance of their 1987 LP and grossed $316 million across just 51 shows – could have become a very lucrative, easy template for all future projects. Why …
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“What else we got?” Willie Nelson asks. He’s sitting with his famous battered guitar Trigger at his recording studio, located on theCut ‘N Putt golf course he owns in Spicewood, Texas. He’s deep into a session of Frank Sinatra covers for a future tribute album. Nelson’s producer Buddy Cannon has …
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ABBA announced Friday that the Swedish pop group reunited in the studio to record their first new songs together in over 35 years. The recording session yielded a pair of new tracks, including “I Still Have Faith in You,” which will premiere in December as part of ABBA‘s previously announced …
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