The Prince estate is releasing a 15-track album comprising previously unreleased songs. Originals will first stream on Tidal from June 7th – 20th before receiving a physical release via Warner Bros. on June 21st. The album comprises songs from Prince’s “Vault” recordings, which were selected by Troy Carter on behalf …
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Robert Earl Keen‘s songs like “Amarillo Highway” and “The Road Goes on Forever” have helped define Americana music before the term itself ever caught fire. Now the Texas songwriter is making it his mission to introduce the genre to a broader audience with a new podcast. Dubbed Americana Podcast: The …
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The Flaming Lips will hit the road this summer following the release of their 15th studio album, King’s Mouth: Music and Songs, which will be released on July 19th via Warner Bros. The tour, which will feature the Claypool Lennon Delirium (who won’t appear at the July 31st show) with …
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Lizzo has added a second leg to her North American tour in support of her new album, Cuz I Love You. The “Cuz I Love You Too” trek kicks off September 7th at the Fillmore in New Orleans, Louisiana and wraps October 27th at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in …
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As more states legalized recreational marijuana use, Lizzie Post found herself fielding many cannabis-related questions: Is it cool to light a joint at a dinner party? Am I obligated to offer my house stash to guests? A 20-year cannabis consumer living in Vermont, Post, the 36-year-old co-president of the Emily …
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When indie luminary Manu Chao first released his 1998 debut, Clandestino — and the song of the same title — he sought to humanize the millions of migrants, survivors of civil war and poverty, hustling to survive on the mean streets of European cities. Often derided as “clandestinos,” or what …
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Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong voice a pair of thirty-something bird women grappling with the all the anxieties, failures and jaguar attacks life has to offer in the trailer for the new animated series, Tuca and Bertie, premiering May 3rd on Netflix. Haddish and Wong voice Tuca and Bertie, respectively, …
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Kehlani and 6lack meditate on romantic disconnect in their minimal new “RPG” video. Throughout the clip, the duo appear in and out of a glass room filled with plants and old-school push-button telephones that go notably unused. As time passes, the vegetation grows wildly throughout the space — suggesting the …
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The satirist Ambrose Bierce, author of the Devil’s Dictionary, once defined radicalism as “the conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today.” What Bierce wittily captured — that today’s radicals are tomorrow’s normies — means that at any given moment, the current political establishment will be fighting off the …
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It’s been a couple years since instrumental noise-rock veterans Explosions in the Sky have hit the road, but that changes today. The band has announced a 20th anniversary tour beginning September 11th in Mesa, Arizona. The band announced the run with a tweet: “Hi everyone, our band turns 20 years …
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