Power-pop fans were dealt a devastating blow Monday night when word came down that Raspberries frontman Eric Carmen died over the weekend at age 74. “Our sweet, loving and talented Eric passed away in his sleep,” his wife, Amy Carmen, wrote to fans. “It brought him great joy to know, …
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It’s dinner time in South Korea when Chung Ha pops up for a Zoom interview at her management company’s Seoul office. Dressed casually in a white T-shirt and a cozy beige hoodie, she’s eager to discuss her new two-song digital single album, EENIE MEENIE, released earlier this morning. But first, …
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Leer en español T he streets leading up to the Lab Studios, a recording complex in Miami’s lush Coconut Grove neighborhood, are full of bright, iridescent peacocks. Peso Pluma has set up a weeklong writing camp here in late January to work on his new album, which, he reveals later, …
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Read in English Traducción de Diego Salazar LAS CALLES QUE LLEVAN a Lab Studios, un complejo de salas de grabación en el exuberante barrio de Coconut Grove en Miami, están llenas de unos brillantes e iridiscentes pavos reales. A finales de enero, Peso Pluma ha establecido un campamento de escritura …
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Living in the countryside in Scotland, Diana Garland doesn’t spend much time keeping up with the stars — or, at least not the ones outside of the cosmos. The astrologer has spent five decades studying the movement of the planets and the effects of their various rotations and repositionings. She …
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Welcome to our weeklyrundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Ariana Grande returns with a big, glitzy pop song about moving on, Bleachers mix cynical vibes and upbeat rhythms, and Young Miko promises she’s the perfect cure …
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Even if late Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell actually had a crystal ball, he couldn’t have possibly imagined the latest dramatic developments in the world of his band. Twenty-eight years afterNowell’s tragically early death, two entirely separate versions of Sublime will be touring in 2024. And no one’s happy about it, …
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In 2021, Alejandro “A. Chal” Salazar walked away from everything he thought he always wanted. Up until then, the Peruvian-born singer-songwriter and producer had spent three years signed to Epic Records under Sony Music. He established his hazy, rap-meets-R&B sound on bilingual releases like 2016’s Welcome to Gazi, 2017’s On …
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Champagne Papi is at it again: On March 5, Drake’s Instagram story made the rounds, this time for the news that he’d be remixing viral crooner 4batz’s “act ii: date @ 8.” The song sounds like the sort of late-night-vibe, hip-hop-adjacent, alternative R&B popularized by acts like 6lack, Brent Faiyaz, …
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The last time Blackberry Smoke frontman Charlie Starr saw his longtime friend and bandmate Brit Turner was at Turner’s Atlanta home. The drummer, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2022, was under hospice care, but Starr had some rare good news to deliver. “I told him our record …
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