Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week,Drake teams up with Canadian rap newcomer Smiley, Kim Gordon has a potent pro-freedom message for Donald Trump, and Colombian hitmaker Feid surprise releases his seventh studio …
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Will Smith has a real problem on his hands: he can’t get enough of “Pretty Girls.” He details his addiction on the fun new song, which dropped today and follows his fifth album, Based on a True Story. Smith’s new song is catchy and light, a summer anthem from the …
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BTS’ J-Hope is back with another new single, “Killin’ It Girl,” featuring a guest verse from Memphis rapper GloRilla. Produced by Cirkut, Inverness, and Blake Slatkin the track starts off with a spare but propulsive beat that eventually opens up on the chorus with big pop synths. J-Hope delivers a …
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Swedish pop singer Zara Larsson has shared a new song, “Midnight Sun,” which will serve as the title track from her upcoming fourth album, out Sept. 26. “Midnight Sun” teeters the between ebullient and delirious, with production that nods to frenetic house breakbeats, serene trance synths, and big tent EDM …
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Mike Love paid tribute to his cousin and Beach Boys co-founder, Brian Wilson, who died Wednesday, at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York on Thursday. “I especially must thank my cousin Brian Wilson,” Love said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “My first cousin by blood but …
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If anyone needed further evidence that Kendrick Lamar eviscerated Drake in their feud, look no further than the response Lamar received while performing in Drake’s hometown of Toronto this week. He and SZA brought their Grand National Tour to Rogers Centre on Thursday night for the first of two shows …
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Douglas McCarthy, the vocalist who hectored anarchic invective with EBM innovators Nitzer Ebb and who joined Depeche Mode keyboardist Alan Wilder’s Recoil side project, died Wednesday at the age of 58. Nitzer Ebb’s social media confirmed his death without revealing a cause of death, promising more info in the future. …
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Tyler, the Creator reflected on his career and offered creative advice to a room full of artists for Instagram’s Ask It Anyway, a new series of conversations with prominent artists. Designer and The Cutting Room Floor podcaster Recho Omondi moderated the inaugural edition with Tyler, who was characteristically irreverent during …
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“Sunday Love,” a Bruce Springsteen ballad that’s premiering today that’s officially coming out as part of the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, finds the singer-songwriter in crooner mode. With horns and strings, the song recalls the best of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s melodramatic production, while the way …
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An ex-girlfriend of Sean Combs who claimed the mogul had been continually pushing her to have a “freak-off” before he allegedly drugged her at his Miami mansion in July — two months before he was arrested —has refiled her civil lawsuit under her real name. The woman, Chelsea Lovelace, filed …
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