What more is there to say about love? It has been painstakingly dissected and enshrined for centuries in the written word, films, and songs that both shatter and mend hearts. Olivia Dean says it herself on “I’ve Seen It,” the closing track from her second studio album, The Art of …
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“New directions are happening,” Charlie Puth sang Thursday night in the excellent new song “Changes,” and he wasn’t kidding. In the first show of a four-night residency at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club, he debuted sleek songs from an-as-yet-announced new album, and unveiled stripped-down, jazzed-up versions of hits from …
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Actress Natalie Dormer will not promote her upcoming drama, The Lady, in which she portrays Sarah Ferguson, because of the Duchess of York’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein. She has also said she will donate her salary from the series to charities focused on child abuse, Variety reports. Ferguson was tied …
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Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne trade lyrics about power and exploitation on their newly released duet of Black Sabbath‘s “War Pigs.” The release marks the first posthumous musical appearance from Osbourne since his death at the age of 76 in July. “It’s the first ever time in my entire life …
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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week,Doja Cat channels Eighties synths on her fifth studio album, Young Thug keeps making up for lost time with his second new LP of the year, and Rauw …
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On her new album Nobody’s Girl, out now, Amanda Shires writes in candid detail about her marriage and divorce, never more so than in the song “The Details.” It’s an elegiac ballad with brooding strings and piano, and devastating lyrics. “You erased the details in our history,” she sings in …
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Conor Oberst has had quite the year. Last September, he and his longtime bandmates, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, released their 11th studio album as Bright Eyes, Five Dice, All Threes. That marked their first full-length in four years, following 2020’s comeback album Down in the Weeds, Where the World …
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Euro summer isn’t over if you don’t want it to be. Just ask Zara Larsson, whose fifth album, Midnight Sun, keeps the good vibes, long days, and late nights going. From start to finish, Larsson’s latest refuses to ever slow down, instead trafficking in high-energy dance-pop joy. Hailing from pop …
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A London court tossed out the terror case against Kneecap’s Mo Chara, with a judge ruling that the charge against the Belfast rapper was not properly filed. The rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh was accused of displaying a Hezbollah flag on stage at a November 2024 Kneecap concert in London. …
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President Donald Trump came within a hair’s width of death on Tuesday, when an escalator at the United Nations headquarters briefly stalled in an act of intentional sabotage, leaving him exposed to the mercy of a theoretical assassin’s bullet. At least that’s how Trump’s supporters and right-wing commentators are imagining …
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