“This award celebrates my family and my co-writers and my team. My friends and my fiercest fans and my harshest detractors and everyone who entered my life or left it.” Taylor Swift took the stage Tuesday night at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to receive the Songwriter-Artist of the Decade award from …
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Björk has cited the epidemic of gun violence in the U.S. as one of the reasons she has retreated back to her native Iceland. Speaking to Pitchfork ahead of her new album Fossora, Björk revealed that — after decades split living in New York and Iceland — the singer moved …
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Taylor Swift gave fans both a physical and virtual surprise on Tuesday night: those lucky enough to be inside Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium caught a performance of “All Too Well,” the 10-minute version; while those online learned the title of a new song. “Mastermind” will appear on Swift’s upcoming album Midnights, …
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Santigold returns to her punk roots in the new visual for “Fall First,” the closing track on the singer’s recently released LP Spirituals. The “video vignette” keeps with the punk aesthetic in both its DIY approach — it was seemingly filmed with no budget, just a band playing in an …
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Smashing Pumpkins showcased a new song, “Empires,” live at a concert at the Metro in Chicago last night. The song will appears on the rock band’s forthcoming album, Atum, out in full April 21, 2023. Although no video footage of the performance has emerged, an audio recording of the raucous …
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Jesse Jo Stark is embracing duality to the fullest extent. On the singer’s accompanying music video to her latest single — which arrives alongside her newly-released debut studio album, Doomed — she gives in to the push and pull of love and hate, serenity and storms, and highs and lows. …
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W ES PERRY WAS in his Las Vegas hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino when a gunman, a few rooms away, smashed his own room’s window and opened fire. Fans were gathered across the Las Vegas Strip at a country-music festival. It was …
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Dreamville singer Ari Lennox appeared on the Tonight Show Tuesday to perform a medley of tracks from her just-released LP Age/Sex/Location. Lennox delivered the opening track “POF” and “Waste My Time” from her acclaimed second LP, the follow-up to her 2019 Dreamville debut Shea Butter Baby. Rolling Stone recently called …
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Spoon have enlisted the services of British dub specialist Adrian Sherwood to transform their most recent album, Lucifer on the Sofa, into a new dub remix album, Lucifer on the Moon, out Nov. 4 via Matador. Spoon and Sherwood first teased their collaboration back in June with the latter’s “reconstruction” …
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Eric Church was rehearsing for his first-ever “in the round” tour last summer when his manager John Peets noticed a major flaw in the stage design: Whenever the country music star moved toward the pits to get closer to the fans, he disappeared entirely from view. “The stage is built …
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