As soon as Alex Guerra and Ramon Ruiz discovered 15-year-old Yahritza Martinez on TikTok, they knew she was going to be huge. The high schooler from Yakima, Washington, had been courting a massive following on social media with her shockingly powerful voice, and Ruiz and Guerra — both artists from …
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Rage Against the Machine were just four songs into their show at Chicago’s United Center on Monday night when Zack de la Rocha injured his leg during a wild rendition of “Bullet In The Head.” He briefly walked offstage with the help of crew members but ultimately finished the show …
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Interpol trace a tragedy back to its beginnings in the new music video for their song “Gran Hotel.” Directed by Malia James, the video opens with a frightening scene as a man frantically calls for help while a woman lies ostensibly dead on the floor of their hotel room. From …
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Spotify has acquired the music trivia game Heardle, the company announced on Tuesday. The move marks Spotify’s latest acquisition as the company looks to expand its offerings beyond music streaming into more diverse and interactive audio offerings. Heardle is a music trivia game inspired by the mega-popular word game Wordle, …
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“I think about you in the morning,” Madi Diaz sings in her latest single, “Hangover.” “I guess that means you’re still important.” “Hangover” features a churning guitar and steady percussion. The video shows Diaz waking up out of bed and grappling with the loss of a relationship — much like …
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It took a global pandemic to get Interpol frontman Paul Banks to speak at a reasonable volume. For two decades, the singer and multi-instrumentalist has done a fairly good impression of a fire searcher, shouting through post-punk smoke at survivors. But because the band wrote its seventh full-length remotely, he …
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BTS may be taking a break to focus on their solo projects, but the BTS Army will continue to see their faves in new shows and media thanks to a new agreement with Disney. On Tuesday, the group’s management team HYBE announced that BTS — comprising Jungkook, V, Jimin, Suga, …
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For the past decade or so, Amanda Shires has sung about the dark shades of relationships — lapsed communication, broken trust, fading intimacy – with a devastating eye for detail. Her latest single “Empty Cups,” a piano ballad featuring her Highwomen collaborator Maren Morris on harmony vocals, is perhaps her …
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Mumford & Sons band leader Marcus Mumford announced the release date of his first solo album (self-titled) on Instagram Tuesday. The album, which is set to be released on Sept. 16, will feature Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo, and Monica Martin. “In January 2021, facing demons I danced with for …
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Album release week is off to a great start for Lizzo. On Tuesday, the singer nabbed an Emmy Awards nomination for her show Watch Out for the Big Grrrls in the Outstanding Competition Show category — and she celebrated the accomplishment with a sweet post on Instagram. “We didn’t do …
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