Justin Bieber ditches the city streets he cruises down in “Yukon” for a coastal vacation in the grayscale video for the Swag single. Directed by Cole Bennett, the visual finds the singer lounging on an expansive yacht with his wife,Hailey Bieber,and their one-year-old son, Jack Blues Bieber. Bieber suggests that …
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Bad Suns have been operating on two sides of an internal divide. On “Communicating,” the brisk lead single from their fifth studio album Accelerator, frontman Christo Bowman describes it succinctly: “Body and mind on separate vacations.” Physically, they’ve been soaking up the California sun, basking in the warmth of bright …
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A TikTok clip of a two-year-old Tiny Desk performance has revived Samia‘s “Pool.” On Tuesday, the indie star released a stripped-down version of the favorite, following the resurgence of the emotional performance of the song from November 2023. “Pool” originally appeared on Samia’s 2020 debut album The Baby. But a …
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Hayley Williams leaves her mark in the music video for “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” one of her 17 new songs released last week. “I still believe in Nashville,” she etches onto a wall in black ink during one scene. The Zachary Gray-directed video takes place in the city, …
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Netflix‘s The Twits is moving classic Roald Dahl book characters from the page to the screen. The vibrant animation of the upcoming film, out Oct. 17, will bring the complexities of Jim and Credenza Twit and their unruly amusement park, Twitlandia, to life. So will its soundtrack of original music …
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To paraphrase a certain pioneering rock band, there’s been a whole lotta Labi in the culture over the last few years. Long a cult figure best known for cover versions of his songs by the way-different likes of Kenny Rogers and Madness, Labi Siffre has lately undergone a Nick Drake-like …
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Rhett Miller revisits a song he co-wrote nearly 10 years ago, with Turnpike Troubadours singer Evan Felker, to announce his new solo album, A Lifetime of Riding by Night. “Come as You Are,” featuring Felker on harmony vocals, is a lilting ballad about separation from those you love. In Miller …
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Two weeks after Ozzy Osbourne‘s death, the Black Sabbath frontman’s cause of death has been revealed. According to a death certificate obtained by The New York Times, Osbourne died of a heart attack “out of hospital” and suffered from coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s disease. The certificate, filed by his …
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The nominations for the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards are here, with Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, and Sabrina Carpenter among this year’s most-nominated artists. Gaga led all contenders with an impressive 12 nominations, thanks largely to her collaboration with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile,” which is up for Video …
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Upon releasing Renaissance in 2022, Beyoncé let it be known that it was the first of a three-part musical reclamation series. The first album celebrated the Black, queer origins of dance music, fusing disco and house into a celebratory LP dedicated to her Uncle Johnny, who helped make some of …
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