When Usher serenaded Keke Palmer during his Las Vegas residency last month, the moment set a sector of the internet ablaze. It was actually Palmer’s boyfriend at the time, Darius Jackson, who struck the match when he tweeted to complain about her sheer dress and black bodysuit. “It’s the outfit …
Read More »Morgan Wallen, Hardy, Luke Combs Lead Inaugural People's Choice Country Awards
Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, Hardy, and Jelly Roll are the top nominees at the inaugural People’s Choice Country Awards, airing live Sept. 28 from Nashville’s Opry House, the home of the Grand Ole Opry. Wallen leads the field with 11 nominations, including multiple nods in categories like The Song of …
Read More »Travis Scott Awakens 'Utopia': 'Circus Maximus' Film and Four Music Videos Get YouTube Release
The 19 songs on Travis Scott‘s comeback album Utopia weren’t enough content for him. Nearly a month after its release, the rapper has expanded the world of the album with four new music videos. The visual release, dropped all at once on YouTube, includes “Hyaena,” “Sirens,” “Modern Jam,” and “Delresto …
Read More »See Soul Glo's Raucous Rendition of System of a Down's 'Soil'
Soul Glo serve up a rendition of System of a Down’s “Soil” in the Philadelphia hardcore band’s installment of the “Song That Found Me At The Right Time” series. The series, a partnership between Sounds of Saving and 988 Suicide + Crisis Lifeline, features an artist covering a track that …
Read More »Taylor Swift University Course Asks Psychologists: 'What Can We Learn From Her?'
Taylormania is in full swing. From 20,000 fans showing up outside sold-outEras Tourstadium shows, to making history with four albums in the Top 10 simultaneously, her groundbreaking career has now inspired a university course on social psychology. “Psychology of Taylor Swift — Advanced Topics of Social Psychology” at Arizona State …
Read More »Chvrches Tease 10th Anniversary Edition of Debut Album With Previously Unreleased Track
Chvrches will release a 10th anniversary special editionof their debut album,The Bones of What You Believe, onOct. 13thviaGlassnote Records. Along with the announcement, the band has shared a previously unreleased track “Manhattan.” The release will feature the album’s original 12 tracks along with four previously unheard songs and five live …
Read More »Pink Floyd Song Reconstructed From People's Brain Activity
Neuroscientists have reconstructed Pink Floyd’s 1979 song “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” using artificial intelligence to interpret the brain’s electrical signals into a recognizable version of the song. A new study published on Tuesday inPLOS Biology, analyzed data from 29 people who heard the song while undergoing brain …
Read More »Talking Heads to Appear Together for First Time in 21 Years
After 21 years of bitter estrangement, Talking Heads have agreed to come together for the first time since their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But don’t get overly excited. They aren’t booking a reunion tour or a headlining slot at Coachella next year. Instead, they will …
Read More »Is Travis Scott's Own Rapping the Weak Point on 'Utopia'?
Travis Scott‘s Utopia has only been out for two and a half weeks, but it’s already spawned numerous strands of discourse, from the apparent debt its production owes to various scrapped Kanye West songs to the debate over whether its lyrics should have more extensively addressed Scott’s reaction to the …
Read More »Charli XCX Burns Hot Pink Rubber in New 'Speed Drive' Video
Charli XCX is pink’d out, and peeling out, in the new music video for her Barbie soundtrack song, “Speed Drive.” The new video, directed by Ramez Silyan, has a simple but appropriate concept: Charli performing and dancing to the song as a hot pink sports car does donuts in an …
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