O samaSon is a 21-year-old rapper from Goose Creek, South Carolina, who, alongside a small coterie of rising acts his age, is beginning to define the coming zeitgeist in modern hip-hop. His latest album, Jump Out, is a 45-minute trip into the blistering sonic universe of his generation. The record …
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The Backstreet Boys feel like they’re going back to the future this year. This summer, the boy band will make history as the first pop act to host a residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, and they’ll use the occasion to celebrate 25 years of their seminal album Millennium. …
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In the history of Saturday Night Live, was anything as secretive and anticipated as the moment this season right before Timothée Chalamet appeared onstage to sing the first of three Bob Dylan numbers? Which songs would they be? How would he sound? For me, it was all strangely familiar — …
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Pablo Hasél didn’t want to go to prison. But by 2018, the Catalan rapper had ruffled the coiffed feathers of the Spanish monarchy with unapologetic, rebellious music denouncing perceived injustice — so much so that he’d been handed a two-year prison sentence by Spain‘s National Court. Although an appeals judge …
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In just three short years, Nigerian street-pop savant Asake has become a giant in African music, meeting Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy in a place it took them three times that span to reach. What’s more, much of Asake’s mythmaking happened in just 2022, with the absolute pandemonium of his …
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Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week,Drake and PartyNextDoor nice up our Valentine’s Day with some moody new love songs, Sabrina Carpenter taps her idol Dolly Parton for a twangy remix, and Addison Rae delivers …
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Drake and PartyNextDoor’s new album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, has arrived and, depending on who you ask, is evidence that Drake is as good as ever or more proof that his career can’t withstand the death blow of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” Reality is probably somewhere closer to …
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At its annual ceremony dating back decades, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has honored a wide range of pop and rock musicians, from the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, and Earth, Wind & Fire to, this past December, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, …
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Before this past Christmas, Bob Dylan’s “Song to Woody” was far from one of his most-streamed songs; neither are most of the tracks from Dylan’s 1962 debut album. But all that changed over the holiday season, when “Song to Woody” jumped from an average of 4,000 streams a day to …
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For two weeks every summer in Switzerland, the shores of Lake Geneva metamorphosize into a stage for the Montreux Jazz Festival. Since its inception in 1967 by founder Claude Nobs, the likes of Etta James, Kendrick Lamar, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Aretha Franklin, …
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