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Ian Sweet‘s Jilian Medford has dropped a cover of the Broken Social Scene classic “Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl.” Medford’s vocals are a perfect fit for the 2002 track, as she quietly conveys the pain and desperation of lines like “Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the …

On “Alien Superstar,” Beyoncé runs through a couple of definitions of who she is, “I’m one of one, I’m number one, I’m the only one,” and “Category: bad bitch, I’m the bar” among them. Following her lead, the French encyclopedic dictionary Petit Larousse Illustré has added the musician’s name as …

Starting with “Rebel-‘Rouser” in 1958, Duane Eddy’s instrumental hits from the early rock & roll era made the guitar the star of the show. On that song and those to follow, like “Peter Gunn,” “Cannonball,” and “Forty Miles of Bad Road,” Eddy used vibrato and lent his guitar a deep …

David Gilmour is planning to promote his upcoming solo album, Luck and Strange, with a rare tour. Just don’t show up expecting to hear Pink Floyd hits like “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” or “Money.” In a new interview with Uncut, Gilmour said he has an “unwillingness to revisit …

Carin León feels like he’s been hallucinating the last three weekends. He’s running on just a few hours of sleep and the high of making history at Stagecoach, where he became the first música mexicana singer to perform at the country festival. Onstage, León looked like any other country act, …

Richard Tandy, Electric Light Orchestra’s keyboardist, has died at the age of 76. The group’s co-founder Jeff Lynne announced Tandy’s on social media Wednesday, writing, “It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of my long-time collaborator and dear friend Richard Tandy.” Lynee called his …

There are a few lines of thought surrounding the ongoing Drake v. the World rap feud that have become accepted as all but sacred facts. For one, all of this is supposedly fun. Spotify, the multi-billion-dollar business that reported a quarterly profit last week — in part, thanks to laying …

Doja Cat stopped by The Tonight Show for a soulful performance of her recent song “Acknowledge Me.” Appearing on the dimly-lit stage, the singer was joined by her band and a group of six back-up singers for the evocative rendition of the track, which comes off the deluxe edition of …

Country Music Hall of Fame member Randy Travis has released his first new song in over a decade, “Where That Came From.” The announcement, delivered via the “Forever and Ever, Amen” vocalist’s social media, has spurred considerable excitement and curiosity from country fans and marks one of the most impossible …

Universal Music Group and TikTok have reached a new licensing agreement, the companies announced, ending their months-long dispute and bringing UMG’s catalog back to the short-form video platform. UMG first announced in an open letter at the end of January that it hadn’t reached an agreement with TikTok, citing several …