The boys are living their Godfather fantasy. On Thursday, J Balvin released his new single “Triple S” featuring Jowell & Randy, and De La Ghetto, along with its Corleone family-esque video, which sees the four men showing up to a blood-filled mansion as mafiosos. As they drop bars about a …
Read More »Hear Keith Richards Take on Velvet Underground's 'I'm Waiting for the Man' for Lou Reed Tribute Album
Keith Richards takes on the Velvet Underground’s classic “I’m Waiting for the Man” for an upcoming tribute album dedicated to the music of Lou Reed. Arriving a day before what would have been Reed’s 82nd birthday, Richards also shared a new video of studio footage from the recording of his …
Read More »Saweetie Addresses Why She Has Yet to Drop an Album: 'Music Is Sacred'
Saweetie will always be the iciest rapper. In a new interview, she’s opening up about some of the not-so-hot moments of her last few years as she prepares a new era of music. In a new cover story with Allure Thursday, the “Richtivities” rap star shared details about why she …
Read More »Paramore Drive Over the Deep End and Survive in Metaphoric 'Thick Skull' Video
Paramore entered into This Is Why with the goal of both internal and external interrogation. The album asked complicated questions about the human condition that yielded answers that looked like those on the surface, but, on closer inspection, it turned out to be another layer of confounding inquiries. It opens …
Read More »Kacey Musgraves Searches for Something Real on 'Deeper Well'
For the past decade, Kacey Musgraves has been country music’s most daring traditionalist — a small-town realist who’s also a campy country-disco queen and a folkie who once wrote a song about smoking weed with John Prine. Her last LP, the 2021 post-divorce record Star-Crossed, was another reminder that her …
Read More »Hozier Still Wants You to 'Be As You've Always Been' Only a Little Quieter This Time
Five years to the day since Hozier released his second album, Wasteland, Baby! the impassioned Irishman is reissuing the album with bonus tracks that display new depths to his emotions. On “Be (Acoustic),” Mr. Hozier-Byrne strips away the original’s snaky funk bass and dials back his own tumult for a …
Read More »Miley Cyrus and Pharrell Reunite For First Time in a Decade on 'Doctor (Work It Out)'
The musical seeds that Miley Cyrus and Pharrell Williams planted more than a decade ago are in full bloom on their newly-released single “Doctor (Work It Out).” The song, which was first created in 2012 around the time that Cyrus was working on her 2013 album Bangerz, leaked online in …
Read More »Djo Has a Hot 100 Hit. For Joe Keery, It's a 'Rebirth'
When Joe Keery first moved to Chicago to attend DePaul University’s Theatre School, he had no idea what direction his life would take. After graduating in 2014, the Massachusetts native stuck around for three more years, working at a restaurant, getting small acting gigs, playing in his former band Post …
Read More »Chlöe Isn't Easily Impressed on New Single 'FYS'
In the year since Chlöe Bailey released her debut solo album In Pieces, she’s stitched herself back together after weathering complication external perceptions. On her latest single “FYS,” the R&B singer and songwriter is only focused on what’s beneath the surface. “Money, cars and the diamonds/Don’t phase me, I been …
Read More »Ariana Grande Wants the Spotless Mind Treatment in 'We Can't Be Friends' Single Teaser
Brighter Days Inc. is Ariana Grande‘s version of Lacuna Inc., the agency that specializes in memory wiping and clean slates in Michael Gondry’s 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In the teaser trailer for “We Can’t Be Friends,” the next single from her upcoming album Eternal Sunshine, the …
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