Who is Pictoria Vark? She’s the spoonerism who serves as a rock handle for rising songwriter Victoria Park. The 23-year-old Iowa City singer/bassist just made one of last year’s finest indie records with her breakthrough, The Parts I Dread. It’s a road trip of an album—it’s full of the places …
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It couldn’t get bigger than this. The Spotify Best New Artist red carpet was buzzing all night as artists like Tove Lo, Shawn Mendes, and Doechii strutted their way into one of the biggest Grammy week parties, and A-list surprise guests like Leonardo DiCaprio, Trevor Noah, and Jared Leto joined …
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J. Cole’s Dreamville Records will executive produce the soundtrack for Michael B. Jordan’s Creed III, with the album set to arrive alongside the movie on March 3. The label has shared the first single from the soundtrack as well, “Ma Boy,” featuring Dreamville artists J.I.D. and Lute. Despite the tease, …
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will re-team with longtime collaborator David Fincher for the director’s next film, The Killer, due out in November. The duo subtly announced the project on the Nine Inch Nails’ website in the caption for a 3-LP version of their score for Mank, Fincher’s 2020 film …
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Whatever the uncertainty, GloRilla probably has a solution. The Memphis rapper who boasted, “Every day the sun won’t shine, but that’s why I love tomorrow,” on the Cardi B-assisted “Tomorrow 2,” has returned with another motivational speech. Taking aim at the fairytale facade of social media on “Internet Trolls,” GloRilla …
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Disgraced Seventies glam rocker Gary Glitter has been released from a British prison just halfway through a 16-year sentence after being convicted of child sex abuse charges. The BBC reports that Glitter will be “closely monitored” by police and probation officers via GPS and will face the “strictest” of conditions …
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Dierks Bentley might have his name on a three-story bar on Nashville’s Lower Broadway, but he can’t resist the pull of Robert’s Western World, Music City’s last legit honky-tonk. For the video for “Cowboy Boots,” a track off his upcoming album Gravel & Gold, the country singer and his duet …
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The Recording Academy honored legendary artists Dr. Dre, Lil Wayne, and Missy Elliott, along with esteemed record executive Sylvia Rhone at its second-ever Black Music Collective Ceremony on Thursday, one of the marquee events leading into the Grammy Awards this Sunday. The event was celebratory, even by Grammy standards, as …
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Ice Spice has hopped on a new remix of PinkPantheress’ recent song, “Boy’s a Liar.” For “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2,” PinkPantheress didn’t make any tweaks to the original’s bustling beat (co-produced with Mura Masa), letting Ice Spice drop in with a verse about a two-timing guy that’s fierce, yet …
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On her new album Queen of Me, Shania Twain doesn’t sound like the same person who was once so on top she could playfully feign indifference toward Brad Pitt’s movie-star looks in “That Don’t Impress Me Much.” At the time, she could do no wrong, having become a global star …
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