Sabrina Carpenter tried to warn you. “The album is not for any pearl clutchers,” the “Espresso” pop goddess told Gayle King, before dropping her new album, the hotly awaited Man’s Best Friend. And she wasn’t kidding about that. Sabrina has returned with her most libidinally charged, riotously funny album — …
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Darren Aronofsky wasn’t able to convince his fiancée to agree with his pick of Idles‘ scabrous 2017 track “Love Song” for the first dance at their wedding (they compromised on the Cure), but the director got the next best thing. The hard-edged U.K. band — often described as post-punk, a …
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As hard as it is to believe, Sonic Youth played their final show 14 years ago this fall, instigated by the breakup of co-founders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. In the years since, they’ve each continued working on many fronts: Gordon was nominated for a Grammy this year for her …
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All bets were off in the Texas punk of the early 1980s. In Austin, the Dicks played drunk punk blues, and were led by Gary Floyd, a fiery queer man and vitriolic Communist. Meanwhile, San Antonio‘s own Fearless Iranians From Hell provoked audiences who were still stung by the 1980 …
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K irk West didn’t look like a man trying to slip out of town unnoticed. Dressed in a $350 black-and-gold Versace-style shirt with a dragon perched on a champagne bottle on the back, the six-foot-six entrepreneur carried himself with the same air of confidence he’s projected for years. Yet, as …
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Love him or hate him, Drake isn’t showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. After suffering a blistering defeat in last year’s great Rap Civil War, he’s been methodically picking up the pieces, revitalizing his fanbase, and working to channel as much goodwill as he can. Luckily, long before Kendrick’s …
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If Margo Price is taking a sharp turn into her traditional country roots, rest assured that “I’m a hard-headed woman/and I don’t owe you shit” will be the first words on the resulting album. “We need those songs. We need a candle in the darkness right now,” Price tells Rolling …
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Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? Today the world salutes the love story of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, who announced their engagement on social media Tuesday, with the wittiest wedding announcement in pop history: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” In the photos, Travis …
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Director Rob Reiner has never made a sequel in his long career, and he hadn’t ever contemplated a follow-up to the most beloved rock comedy ever made, 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. But then Harry Shearer, who plays Tap bassist Derek Smalls, fought a long battle to reclaim ownership of …
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Charley Crockett has seen his name in a lot of headlines over the past week, thanks not only to his funky new album Dollar a Day, but for an online feud with the country singer Gavin Adcock. After Crockett posted his thoughts about authenticity in country music on Instagram, Adcock …
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