F orty-two years ago, Cyndi Lauper told the world that “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” on her debut single. And right now, she’s sitting in a north Brooklyn studio with Gracie Abrams and doing just that. They’re bopping their heads to Rickie Lee Jones’ “The Last Chance Texaco” and …
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The world is pouring out some cold gin for the late, great Ace Frehley, the guitar spaceman of Kiss. Frehley died last night from complications after a fall, at 74. He summed up the archetypal Seventies guitar hero if anyone did — the space cadet from the planet Jendell. He …
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Todd Snider is in pain. And fans hoping to catch the gritty, live-it-to-the-hilt storyteller in person would be wise to catch the full-band tour he is launching at the end of October in support of High, Lonesome and Then Some, his just released new album. After more than three decades …
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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, Tame Impala return back to their chill electro-pop ways, Haim continue to unravel the complexities of fuckin’ relationships with two new tracks for their I Quit deluxe, …
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Last March, Sam Westhoff, who performs under the moniker Haffway, stood beneath a lone spotlight onstage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and delivered a song about struggling to slow down. The performance, an opening slot on Bear Rinehart’s Wilder Woods Tour, was as bare-bones as the way Westhoff was …
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It’s been a whirlwind fall for Lauren Jauregui. On Aug. 31, she reunited with her Fifth Harmony sisters for the first time in seven years, and the following day she landed a last-minute spot on Dancing With the Stars, twirled through three episodes before her elimination — and now, she’s …
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O ne day in 2013, Jack Antonoff was sitting in a car in Los Angeles with his friend Hayley Williams when he decided to play her a new song. Back then, Antonoff was best known as a member of the band Fun., and he hoped to release the track, “I …
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The first single from Big L’s posthumous Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King album is here. Today, Mass Appeal released “u aint gotta chance,” pairing Big L’s bars from a 1997 freestyle with a fiery verse from Nas. The song, gradually crafted by seven people, is the first glimpse of …
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O n Oct. 14, the iconic singer D’Angelo died of pancreatic cancer at 51. Tributes and recollections of the Brown Sugar, Voodoo, and Black Messiah artist poured in from all over the world, including from legendary photographer Eric Johnson, who posted never-before-seen pictures he took of the soulman in the …
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Two weeks ago, Anthony Hamilton’s phone rang with a call from an old friend. D’Angelo, the visionary soul artist who died Oct. 14, was reaching out for one last conversation with the singer whom he lovingly called Ant-eezy. “By the time I got to the phone and realized it was …
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