Beyoncé’s “16 Carriages” made its grand return to the Cowboy Carter Tour Thursday, weeks after a performance of the track left the singer suspended over the crowd in a malfunctioning red car. “16 Carriages” — the tour’s usual penultimate song and one of the concert’s major set pieces — featured …
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Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton have linked up for a dreamy new duet, “A Song to Sing.” With its dreamy disco groove and lovestruck devotion, “A Song to Sing” feels almost like an homage to one of country’s great duets, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers’ 1983 gem, “Islands in the …
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Justin Bieber is still a wife guy on his new album Swag. The singer announced the surprise album less than 12 hours before its release, with billboards and a flurry of Instagram posts signaling its arrival. With how fraught the past few years of Bieber’s life and career have been, …
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On Friday, country singer Conner Smith released his first public statement since striking and killing a 77-year-old woman with his pickup truck last month in Nashville. The statement comes just a day after he received a misdemeanor citation for his role in the fatal crash. “Four weeks ago, I was …
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The reunited Clipse continued their promo tour in support of their new album Let God Sort Em Out with a visit to NPR’s Tiny Desk on Friday. The duo of Pusha T and Malice were joined by an NPR-enlisted backing band that included the Lox drummer Daru Jones, keyboardists Darryl …
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AJ McLean is in “the best head space I’ve ever been in my life.” In a new interview with People published on Thursday, the Backstreet Boy reflected on how he is focused on his sobriety journey after going through a relapse several years ago. “Towards the end of the DNA …
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Guitar fans — especially Gen-Z ones — need no introduction to 31-year-old virtuoso Tim Henson, who has been reinventing the instrument for more than a decade with his wildly experimental future-prog quartet Polyphia, who play fractured, trippy instrumentals that often seem more influenced by hip-hop, electronic music, and even video-game …
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With just days to go before its release, Travis Scott announced that his Cactus Jack compilation album Jackboys 2 will roll out this Sunday, July 13. According to post shared to his Instagram on Thursday night, the project will span 17 songs and be hosted by Bun B. “The Jack …
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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Justin Bieber surprise-drops his first album in four years, Blackpink reunite for a high-energy club banger, and Tyla serves up a sultry dance-hall inspired summer hit. Plus, …
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When a California jury handed hip-hop mogul T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris an eye-popping $71.4 million award at a civil trial that pitted the couple’s pop group OMG Girlz against a line of candy-colored plastic dolls, even Tiny was blown away. “I mean, wow. They did more than …
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