D.C. born, New York-based underground rapper billy woods specializes in music about poor city dwellers, sadistic police, and conniving landlords. Woods, who prefers his name to be all lowercase and his face never shown, raps like he’s omnipresent, watching an unlivable society from the sky; his music vividly evokes the …
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It’s a gray April morning in a sleepy town outside Boston, and Chadwick Stokes is in the wood-walled studio above his garage, reworking a song he wrote decades ago. “The General” tells the tale of a Civil War veteran who has a dream that makes him realize the futility of …
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Three months after releasing her mixtape Caprisongs, Fka Twigs is bringing fans into the visual world of her album. On Friday, the singer premiered the shortened visual of her track “Honda,” featuring Pa Salieu, withRolling Stone. For the dark, dub-meets-Afrobeats track’s visual, Twigs took the “Honda” themes to the extreme …
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No matter the genre, tribute albums tend toward the reverent, as if the musicians and singers doing the saluting don’t want to appear even remotely disrespectful toward their subjects. Thankfully, that’s not the case with his overdue reunion of Americana veterans Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, who first worked together …
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On Inglewood rapper D Smoke’s latest single, “Glide,” he self-soothes with reminders of his resilience. The track debuted Tuesday morning with a performance video on the popular minimalist music platform Colors. Although the song begins with a cocky hook (“I look sexy when I’m walking through this bitch/I look sexy …
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Harry Styles performed two Shania Twain hits with the country legend herself and debuted three new songs live — including his latest single “As It Was” — as part of his Coachella headlining set Friday. The singer first welcomed Twain, who emerged from a platform at the back of the …
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A trio of Frank Zappa‘s Rust Belt-area concerts, performed during one of the rock legend’s most artistically fertile period, are the focus of an upcoming six-CD box set dubbed Zappa/Erie. The box set captures a string of shows Zappa and his band (three different lineups) performed along the border of …
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UPDATE (4/1): Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record label, officially confirmed its new “goodwill program” to wipe the unrecouped advances of some legacy artists and songwriters. The company properly unveiled the program in its annual report, issued Thursday, March 31. UMG didn’t specify which of its legacy artists would …
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Mimi Webb made her late-night debut on The Tonight Show, performing the upbeat single, “House on Fire.” Appearing with a live band, the British singer gave a rousing rendition of the catchy song. Webb released “House on Fire” in February, accompanied by a music video that found the singer cavorting …
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Justin Bieber, Halsey, Machine Gun Kelly, and Backstreet Boys are among the more than 100 headliners tapped for the 2022 iteration of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, music festival Summerfest, making its return across three weekends in June and July. The nine-day festival — scheduled for June 23-25, June 30-July 2, and July …
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