Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa Dabice has the kind of voice you can’t ignore—a punk yowl with a soul singer’s flair for raw passion. Her Philadelphia foursome raise a ferociously emotional racket on their new breakthrough album Patience, one of the year’s most cathartic rock statements. “Drunk II” is Dabice’s witty ballad …
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Do your kids need more Metallica in their lives? The band is here to help with a new illustrated children’s book, The ABCs of Metallica, to be released November 26th in stores and online. The brightly colored tome was co-written by the band with writer Howie Abrams and illustrated by …
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Machine Gun Kelly and Trippie Redd visit a pharmacy worker portrayed by Pete Davidson in Machine Gun Kelly’s new “Candy” video. The song appears on the rapper’s recently released album, Hotel Diablo. The visual opens with a bored looking Davidson behind the counter at a pharmacy. A couple of kids …
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From the Forties through the mid-Seventies Nashville was staking its claim as Music City, developing the hybrid of country and pop known as the Nashville Sound. At the same time, on the West Coast, the thriving California honky-tonks gave birth to what would be termed the Bakersfield Sound, so named …
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Rayland Baxter never met Mac Miller, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t inspired by the late rapper’s body of music. Now Baxter is paying tribute to Miller with an EP of covers called good mmornin, which he’s previewing with the release of two tracks, “Objects in the Mirror” and “2009.” …
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Madonna highlights the devastation of gun violence — and our maddening inability to take meaningful action to prevent it — in her chilling new “Gun Control” video. The clip contrasts the joy of nightclub dancing with the brutality of a mass shooting. “The story you are about to see is …
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Jamila Woods creates an enchanted school where the joys of dancing, enjoying a sumptuous meal and engaging learning is taught in a magical setting for her new “Baldwin” video. The song appears on Legacy! Legacy!, which the soulful R&B singer and poet released in May. The song is inspired by …
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Lizzo stole the show at the 2019 BET Awards, performing “Truth Hurts” in a charming, wedding-themed display that evoked the video for her piano-driven 2017 single. The singer-rapper appeared in white atop a giant wedding cake, surrounded by dancers with bouquets of flowers in hand. She brought the crowd to …
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Tiësto, Rita Ora and Jonas Blue teamed up for their new collaborative song “Ritual” in May, and the trio has followed it up with a new colorful, dance-driven video. In the clip, a bevy of dancers strike poses that form different shapes. Ora joins them and is also seen on …
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At the start of his career, Juice WRLD worked hard to keep his music from his mom, knowing she probably wouldn’t be too happy with some of his songs. But as he recalls in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s “The First Time,” it was his mom’s meddling co-worker who …
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