Clipse stopped by The Tonight Show to perform their recent song “The Birds Don’t Sing.” The evocative track is the opening number on the rap group’s latest LP, Let God Sort Em Out, which dropped July 11. The performance featured Pusha T stepping forward to intone the opening verses before …
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The weekend of July 4 was relatively stacked with hip-hop releases from stars who have been beloved in the genre for years, but data from Luminate and Billboard reveal that few of them made the kind of impact they’d once been capable of. Drake fired shots at fake friends on …
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Hitting play on a new Alex G album can feel a little bit like that sequence in Alan Moore’s Watchmen comics where Doctor Manhattan sits on a rock on Mars, pondering the nature of time. It’s 2014. I’m listening to an oddly moving song that Alex G recorded by himself …
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Bruce Springsteen’s just-completed world tour with the E Street Band has proven to be the most successful of the rocker’s career with a gross of more than $700 million. The tour, which spanned 129 shows and two continents from 2023 to 2025 (with a peptic ulcer postponement in between), made …
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For Noah Cyrus, music and family are inextricable. The daughter of Billy Ray and sister of Miley, Noah Cyrus, 25, grew up in and around the music industry, beginning her own musical experiments as a teen and later finding her footing as an artist with the 2022 release of her …
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Fifty years ago this month, Fleetwood Mac released their self-titled 1975 album, which featured two new members: a young couple named Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. As the story goes, the two musicians — who performed as the duo Buckingham Nicks — released their self-titled 1973 album, but it flopped …
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Taylor Swift’s father, Scott, is recovering after undergoing heart surgery last month, People reports. Scott Swift, 73, underwent quintuple bypass surgery, which his doctor ordered after noticing something during a recent check-up. No specific details were given, though the procedure was not precipitated by a heart attack. Swift, her brother …
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Jane’s Addiction frontmanPerry Farrellhas sued former bandmatesDave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins, just hours after the triofiled a lawsuit against him over an onstage scuffle last year. During a show at Boston’s Leader Bank Pavilion on Sept. 13, 2024, Farrell shoved Navarro near the end of his guitar solo …
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One month after dropping the Song of the Summer contender “Quitting,” Eliza McLamb is back with the new single “Like the Boys.” The track is a slow-burning charmer that sneaks up on you, quietly building into seismic, cathartic riffs as McLamb reflects on being a girl among the boys. “I …
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A hemorrhaged vocal cord kept Sam Fender from taking the stage at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival for his headlining performance. But the injury proved to be beneficial for Benson Boone, who was bumped up to the headlining tier in his place. It wasn’t an exact one-to-one parallel, but the Fender …
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