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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Saul Williams and Carlos Niño will release their debut collaborative album, Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople, on Aug. 28. The duo have previewed the LP with an expansive, 16-minute track titled “Sound Then Words.” The improvised album, produced by Niño, was recorded live under black oak …
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Ashe and Finneas are bringing their collaborative project on the road. This fall, the pair will embark on the An Evening With the Favors Tour. Their debut album as a band, The Dream, set for release on Sept. 19, will arrive just in time for the live run, which kicks …
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In the spring of 1965, Bob Dylan stood in an alley by London’s Savoy Hotel and practically invented the music video by flipping through cue cards displaying words from “Subterranean Homesick Blues” while the song played. Fifty years later, Margo Price is paying homage to the historic clip in the …
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Beyoncé‘s holiday season Netflix special, Beyoncé Bowl, just scored another touchdown. The NFL 2024 Christmas Day Halftime Show performance, which the musician co-directed with Alex Rudzinski, has been nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special and Outstanding Variety Special (Live) at the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards. The two nod …
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