A Nashville judge ruled Thursday that John Oates must remain in a holding pattern and take no “further action” to sell his half of his business partnership with Daryl Hall against Hall’s wishes. Oates must wait for the arbitrator selected in the famed duo’s previously filed arbitration to resolve the …
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The Bangtan Boys may be starting a hiatus as they enlist in the military, but they’re leaving their fans with a special treat in the meantime. On Tuesday, BTS dropped the main trailer for their upcoming BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star docuseries, which premieres on Disney+ on Dec. 20. The …
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Erick the Architect has moved 2,790 miles from New York City and landed in Los Angeles. As one third of legendary hip hop group Flatbush Zombies, Erick changed the soundscape of the genre as the trio’s rapper-producer — pushing the Zombies into bold new sounds and narratives that both confounded …
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Are you ready to O.D. on Jesus and Mary Chain? The group’s latest single, “jamcod,” which will appear on their upcoming Glasgow Eyes LP, finds frontman Jim Reid singing, “Tears are what you want, tears are what you got,” before the band’s trademark noise, led by Jim’s brother William’s guitar, …
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A choir of 5,000 voices forms the foundation of the support system Jacob Collier is building with Shawn Mendes and Stormzy on his latest single, “Witness Me,” which also features Kirk Franklin. In the newly released music video for the record, the trio leans into earnest humility in a home …
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O ne has two degrees from Juilliard, and the other went straight from the streets of Atlanta to the studio, where he helped invent trap as we know it. They come from wildly different musical worlds, but Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane found plenty of common ground when they came …
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Spotify Wrapped is here — and with the platform’s analysis of users’ personal listening habits also comes a breakdown of the top-played music of the year globally. Taylor Swift earned the crown of the most-streamed artist this year, dethroning Bad Bunny, who had the most streams for three consecutive years. …
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The ARMY has a holiday gift to look forward to. Big Hit Music, which represents BTS, announced a new remix of Jung Kook‘s “Standing Next to You” with a feature from Usher, due out on Friday. “Featuring the U.S.-based R&B artist Usher, this remix adds a velvety touch to the …
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MGMT have released the new music video for “Bubblegum Dog,” the new single from their upcoming album, Loss of Life. The Tom Scharpling and Julia Vickerman-directed visual pays tribute to alternative-rock videos from the Nineties. The humorous clip finds Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser hanging by a fake fire, donning …
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The further we get from the Nineties, the more it looks like a series of musical golden ages all stacked atop one another, a kaleidoscopic moment when grimy hip-hop and future-shock R&B hit artistic and commercial peaks at the same time as a procession of fuzz-pedal-toting rock bands found themselves …
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