The Avalanches have shared two new songs, “Take Care in Your Dreaming” and “Music Makes Me High,” from their next record, We Will Always Love You, out December 11th via Astralwerks. “Take Care in Your Dreaming” is booming track that mixes meditative synths and vocal hooks, with hard-hitting drums and …
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Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard originally planned on spending the bulk of 2020 touring in support of the band’s new album, Gigaton. But when the pandemic hit and Pearl Jam had to delay all their road work until 2021, it gave him time to put the finishing touches on the …
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Phoebe Bridgers and Arlo Parks teamed up to perform a cover of Radiohead‘s “Fake Plastic Trees.” The artists’ stripped back, piano-led version was recorded for Phil Taggart’s Chillest Show on BBC Radio 1. Filmed in a church, the pristine acoustics enhance their tender rendition of The Bends classic. Bridgers takes …
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Ziggy Marley continues his socially distanced livestream performance series with the new eight-song Rebellion Rises set. Cut at the Ceek VR studio in Los Angeles, Marley performed several songs from the 2018 album, including the title track, “Circle of Peace,” “World Revolution” and “I Will Be Glad.” He kicked off …
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Elvis Costello has released “Phonographic Memory,” what he describes as the B-side to his previous single “We Are All Cowards Now.” Set in a futuristic post-war era, “Phonographic Memory” is a spoken word track over an open-tuned acoustic guitar in which Costello tells a tale involving a recording of Orson …
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If you were a fan of Zoom horror flick Host, you’d do right to tune into Sad13‘s new video for “Hysterical,” off her upcoming second album, Haunted Painting — out September 25th on her Wax Nine Label. Based on the 2014 horror movie Unfriended — in which group of friends …
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Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams reunite on “Entrepreneur,” which the pair released Thursday at midnight. The song is accompanied by a new music video that spotlights black men and women, including Tyler, the Creator and Issa Rae, who have started their own businesses. “Entrepreneur” is “all about how tough it is …
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Carly Rae Jepsen has announced a deluxe version of her cult hit album Emotion for its 5th anniversary featuring two bonus tracks, “Never Get to Hold You” and “Love Again.” Both tracks represent the best ofEmotion‘s ecstatic synth-pop: “Never Get to Hold You” is a simmering dance floor-friendly ballad that …
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Jennifer Hudson stole the show at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, performing Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” inside the beautiful Chicago Cultural Center. Unsurprisingly, Hudson killed it, bringing her Broadway-level vocal chops to a timeless anthem for racial justice and hope. But the truly jaw-dropping moment …
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Chris Hillman couldn’t have chosen a better song title for this excerpted chapter from his upcoming memoir, Time Between — out November 17th via BMG. The chapter, which covers the end of the Sixties, is called “Sin City,” a song off the Flying Burrito Brothers‘ 1969 debut, In the Gilded …
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