Reneé Rapp knows how to let her voice loose with an R&B song. On Friday, the singer joined the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and continued the spot’s tradition of surprise covers with a rendition of SZA‘s “Good Days.” Rapp was backed by a pair of soothing acoustic guitars and …
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Charlie Puth’s Blue Note residencies jumped from New York City to Los Angeles this week, and in Tinseltown, he welcomed a surprise celebrity guest to the stage: Actor and jazz pianist Jeff Goldblum. “I love to give a new up-and-coming singer a chance,” Puth quipped prior to welcoming Goldblum to …
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Slipknot have filed a lawsuit against the anonymous owner of the Slipknot.com domain in an attempt to reclaim the website, which is currently used to sell counterfeit band merchandise. For nearly 25 years, the anonymous cyber-squatter has sat on the Slipknot URL, forcing the actual Slipknot to instead make Slipknot1.com …
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Fresh off his Mercury Prize win, Sam Fender has shared a new song, “Talk to You,” which features Elton John on piano. The Marcus Dravs-produced track comes off on the forthcoming deluxe edition of Fender’s LP,People Watching, which is set to be released on Dec. 5 via Capitol Records. “‘Talk …
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Foo Fighters seemingly shared clip of a new song on Instagram last night. The short video features an image of a green bird sitting on a stack of amps in front of the rock band’s logo. The caption notes that the group is “About to take flight…” The band has …
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Britney Spears has issued another social media statement in response to the latest allegations made by her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, inhis upcoming memoir. “To be loved unconditionally and with a naive heart like mine, always being threatened or made to believe I’m the bad one as they profit off my …
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Haim haven’t thrown in the towel just yet, with the trio dropping a deluxe edition of their latest album, I Quit, featuring three new songs. The group teased the expanded LP last week with the release of “Tie You Down,” a new collaboration with Bon Iver. One of the other …
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Tame Impala released their new album, Deadbeat, today, and to celebrate the arrival, Kevin Parker and company visited NPR’s Tiny Desk to deliver the band’s first-ever all-acoustic performance. Armed with six acoustic guitars — one of which was used as the percussion — Tame Impala played four songs over 20 …
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Neil Young will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his classic 1975 album Tonight’s the Night with a reissue package featuring several previously unreleased recordings from the original album sessions. Young and his backing band — which included, at the time, guitarist Nils Lofgren, pedal steel player Ben Keith, bassist Billy …
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A vintage t-shirt Taylor Swift wore in her Life of a Showgirl film has snowballed into Swifties raising more than $2 million for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, its Sea Otter Program, and other conservation efforts. To go back to the beginning: At one point in The Official Release Party of …
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