Covid has hit E Street as Bruce Springsteen was forced to play Dallas Friday night without some key band members due to coronavirus. On just the sixth show of Springsteen’s 2023 North American tour, the E Street Band were without guitarist Steven Van Zandt and violinist/singer Soozie Tyrell (missing her …
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An omnipresent force, Rihanna has managed to be inescapable since the release of her eighth and most recent studio album Anti in 2016, while also being perpetually hounded about when her grand return to music would finally arrive. For the first few years following the record, the singer’s trajectory followed …
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Taylor Swift just wants to stay in the “Lavender Haze,” and now she has a choice between the original Midnights edition and the newly released remix with German DJ Felix Jaehn, whose remix of Omi’s “Cheerleader” track topped charts worldwide when released in 2015. The new version of “Lavender Haze” …
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It’s a New York day in the life of Jesse Malin in the songwriter’s new video for “Downliner (Afterglow Version).” Malin makes his bed, brushes his teeth, goes grocery shopping, folds his rock & roll T-shirts, and even wraps a gift as the melancholy ballad plays behind him. Captivating stuff, …
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Elvis Costello paid tribute to his longtime friend and collaborator Burt Bacharach Thursday night following news of the legendary songwriter’s death at the age of 94. Bacharach’s death was announced just hours before Costello took the stage for the first of a 10-night residency at New York’s Gramercy Theater, and …
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Dreams and reality blur together for Gracie Abrams on her latest single, “Amelie,” the second preview of her upcoming debut album Good Riddance. The soft acoustic ballad recalls a brief but impactful interaction with a girl who is now a figure in her distant past and who she can’t quite …
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For Britney Spears, being released from a 13-year conservatorship was meant to act as a reset, freeing her up to simply exist without her life being dictated by anyone else. But ever since she earned her freedom in 2021, paranoia has run high among fans who are concerned that she’s …
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Beck reenters his morning phase on his surprise new single, “Thinking About You,” which arrived Thursday night with no warning from the singer-songwriter. After spending the last half-decade traversing the pop universe with albums like Colors and Hyperspace, “Thinking About You” finds Beck returning to the mellow, introspective, and acoustic …
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Miley Cyrus has become known for taking another artist’s song and transforming it into something entirely different with her signature delivery. Now, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have taken a page out of Cyrus’ book and done the same with their rendition of her latest single, “Flowers.” With backing vocals …
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Tove Lo‘s abandoned robot lover is ready for revenge. On Friday, Tove released her single “Borderline,” — co-written with Dua Lipa! — and the song’s video, which follows her ex-AI lover, Annie 3000, disguised as a crash test dummy kidnapping Tove and avenging her. “Borderline is a song about being …
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