Masked Wolf, the Australian rapper behind the TikTok sensation “Astronaut in the Ocean,” leads this month’s Breakthrough 25 Chart, which ranks the fastest-rising up-and-coming artists on streaming. It’s rare that an artist rises from obscurity to the Top 10 of the RS 100 in a matter of months. But the …
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DJ/producer J. Period has enlisted Dave Chappelle, Black Thought, and Tiffany Gouché for “All in Your Head,” the first song off his upcoming debut album, Story to Tell (Chapter One), out April 30th. Chappelle provides a proper introduction for the album, welcoming listeners and instructing them, “Tune your speakers for …
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Justin Bieber surprised fans Sunday when he released Freedom, a gospel-themed EP, at 6:00 p.m. on Easter. The singer announced the EP’s arrival with a brief post on Instagram: “Freedom on all platforms.” The EP includes six songs: “Freedom” featuring Beam, “All She Wrote” (featuring Brandon Love and Chandler Moore), …
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“It’s been way too long since you slipped away/I just can’t forget, I can’t pretend it’s OK,” Alan Jackson sings in his new song “Where Have You Gone.” It could easily be about the lover who left him, but he quickly lays bare the subject of his lament: country music …
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AJR appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform their recent single “Way Less Sad.” The song, which comes off the band’s recent fourth album OK Orchestra, got a lively performance in the woods rather than on Kimmel’s stage, accompanied by some trippy lights. The dance-fueled rendition of “Way Less Sad” …
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Massachusetts singer-songwriter Ella Williams, a.k.a. Squirrel Flower, will release a new album called Planet (i) this summer. The follow-up to her 2020 debut album, I Was Born Swimming, which earned her a spot as a Rolling Stone Artist You Need to Know, arrives June 25th on Polyvinyl Records. Squirrel Flower’s …
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Adult Swim has released a new trailer for Rick and Morty, which will return for its fifth season on June 20th. The clip doesn’t offer much in the way of plotlines — unsurprisingly — but it does boast a barrage of one-liners and a montage of clips from this next …
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Jennifer Bates testified before the United States Senate earlier this month, but she’s just now starting to get nervous. “I’d gotten over the butterflies, but this week my stomach is amplified with them because the closer we get…” she says, pausing to search for the right way to express exactly …
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Larry McMurtry, the Texas novelist known for American West epics like Lonesome Dove and the Oscar-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, has died. McMurtry’s death on Thursday was first reported by The New York Times. He was 84. Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1936, McMurtry was a prolific author with …
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Sean Tillmann, who performs as Har Mar Superstar, has publicly apologized in the wake of sexual assault and harassment accusations by several women,Star Tribune reports. “Recently, brave women have been coming forward to speak about how I treated them, including conduct that was harmful, abusive and selfish,” he said in …
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