With the arrival of their new album today, the National have finally released their eagerly-anticipated collaboration with Taylor Swift, “The Alcott.” The aching ballad is about a couple meeting and trying to reconnect; Berninger takes the lead, offering one side of that story, before Swift joins on the chorus and …
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One Direction were never the best people to go to for advice. In 2013, they shared the Midnight Memories deep cut “Don’t Forget Where You Belong,” which featured possibly the least reassuring words of wisdom ever written: “If you ever feel alone, don’t.” Luckily, Niall Horan has sharpened his comforting …
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Heart-on-their-sleeve rockers the Gaslight Anthem reunited last year and launched their first tour in four years. Now they’re dropping new music: “Positive Charge” is the New Jersey group’s first new song in nine years. And as its title suggests, it’s electrifying. Opening with a stomping drumbeat and a skronky guitar …
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Bebe Rexha, 33, and Dolly Parton, 77, make sense of aging while staying young at heart on Rexha’s new single “Seasons.” “My mirror is a liar/Inside, I’m still a child,” Parton sings over a lilting acoustic guitar line, “who’s tryin’ to find her way back home.” In the same verse, …
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If we had a nickel for every time a musician has had to address concerns about their physical appearance in the last three weeks, we would have two nickels — which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right? Similarly to Ariana Grande earlier this month, Post …
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Xylø is not afraid of embracing her body in order to share her art. On Friday, the singer released the pop-perfect single “Super Sex Mona Lisa,” in which she unapologetically reflects on starting OnlyFans to help fund her music career. Doing so, she says, has given her a “newfound confidence.” …
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Perhaps inspired by the intimacy of playing solely for a judge and a jury of his peers in the ongoing copyright trial he’s entangled in, Ed Sheeran will hit the road next month to play smaller venues for what he’s dubbed the “ – “ tour. (If you want to …
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It was a busy day for the live music industry in Washington today as senators introduced multiple pieces of legislation aimed at improving transparency and competition in ticketing. One of the most common complaints among music fans in a long list of gripes about the modern ticketing industry is the …
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A musicologist testified Wednesday that Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” and Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” “sound very, very similar” in the copyright infringement trial against Sheeran. However, the testimony was overshadowed in part when Kathryn Townsend Griffin — the daughter of the late “Let’s Get It On” co-writer …
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Carol Burnett had a lot to reminisce about at the NBC tribute special Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love, which aired on Wednesday. At 90 years old, with close to seven decades of experience under her belt, the actress and comedian sat in the audience surrounded by generations …
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