Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Drake stokes the anticipation for his next album with a new track featuring Cash Cobain, psych-pop kingpin Tame Impala floats back into our world, and Lady Gaga …
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If you’ve lived in New York long enough, you become inured to the very idea of randomness. No day is complete without a subway encounter between two loudly aggressive strangers that would be frightening if you hadn’t seen thousands of identical standoffs across generations. However, even having earned those bulletproof …
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The moment Ty Myers steps onto the stage, the phones go up and remain there largely throughout his concert. When the rising country star walks to the front of the stage, to take a solo or greet front-row fans, the phones close in, surrounding him as if he were a …
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Tate McRae was born in the pop summer of 2003, the summer that climaxed in the legendary kiss between Britney and Madonna at the MTV Video Music Awards. Tate could have been the baby born from that kiss, because she does their legacy proud. The Canadian star brought her Miss …
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When the clock struck midnight on Aug. 28, 2015, Halsey was sitting in her first Los Angeles apartment. Her one-bedroom in Studio City was hundreds of miles away from the Brooklyn neighborhoods that inspired her anagrammed stage name and countless stories to tell. Those streets, with their bizarre characters and …
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David Gilmour tours are very rare, very brief, and often hit only a handful of cities. But he’s always been good about capturing at least one show on film so that fans all over the world can experience what they missed. Over the past 40 years, he’s shot solo gigs …
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Music fans, and specifically pop fans, may know the rapper who goes by “Clever” from his feature with Post Malone on Justin Bieber’s 2020 hit “Forever.” But to country music listeners, Clever — born Joshua Huie — is mostly a complete unknown. The Alabama-born artist is on a path to …
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Kim Gordon’s candid, revelatory “Girl in a Band,” published just a few years after the dissolution of Sonic Youth, has been hailed as one of the greatest rock memoirs ever. Since the book’s release in 2015, Gordon has gone on to relaunch her career in music with a pair of …
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Young Thug’s rise in pop culture stemmed from the “post-verbal” brilliance of his indecipherable yet captivating delivery; he has now plummeted to a low point in his career, thanks to crystal-clear audio clips that seemingly expose him going against his own word. Since being released from jail on a plea …
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T he year was 2000. Y2K came and went, and a group of four childhood best friends had something more important to worry about now: middle school. Would boys like them? Would they be popular? Would they stick together? That summer, they found a way to briefly escape the future. …
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