Taylor Swift‘s Folklore enjoys a fourth straight week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart, pulling in 93,000 units during the week of August 14th through August 20th. Swift’s eighth studio album saw more than 65 million streams in its fourth week on the chart and …
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Sacred Bones Records, which recently announced plans to reissue four Seventies albums by Mort Garson, has shared the electronic pioneer’s unreleased song “Dragonfly.” The track comes from Music From Patch Cord Productions, a collection of unreleased recordings from Garson’s archive including music for never-aired radio advertisements, themes for science fiction …
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Ben Gibbard, one-half of the beloved indie-pop duo the Postal Service, has finally acknowledged a good pun and dedicated a performance of “Such Great Heights” to the United States Postal Service, which is in dire straits at the moment. Gibbard performed an acoustic version of the project’s signature song during …
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Jada Kingdom glides through the cheery “Budum,” her first single to be released on Diplo‘s Mad Decent label. “Budum” is produced by Emudio, who concocts a pinging, shuddering beat; Kingdom sings in similarly percussive bursts, slinging drumming syllables across the chattering instrumental. “It’s been such a crazy year with the …
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The Mountain Goats have released a new song, “As Many Candles as Possible,” from what will be their second album of 2020, Getting Into Knives, out October 23rd via Merge. The track opens with a bristling twist of guitars and rumbling drums before settling into a steady groove. A distorted …
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In June 1970, Elvis Presley made the trip east from his Graceland home in Memphis to Nashville, where he holed up in RCA Studio B on Music Row for five days of recording. Presley, who was in the midst of his Las Vegas comeback at the International Hotel, was joined …
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The Prince estate has released the full version of a long-treasured rarity, “Cosmic Day,” which will appear on the upcoming reissue of Sign O’ the Times, out September 25th. The track was recorded at Sunset Sound, Studio 3 on November 15th, 1986, and although a snippet of the recording has …
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Australian electro-pop band Cut Copy have announced a new album, Freeze, Melt, out August 21st. The band also dropped a new single, “Like Breaking Glass,” to accompany the announcement.“Every heart beats now/It beats like the sound of breaking glass,” Dan Whitford sings over triumphant reverb and layers of synths. “Every …
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MTV has made its first performers announcement for the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, airing live on Sunday, August 30th at 8:00 p.m. ET at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Doja Cat and J Balvin were announced as featured performers for the ceremony, along with superstar K-pop group BTS in their first-ever …
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Courtney Barnett and Phoebe Bridgers teamed up for a remote duet of Gillian Welch’s “Everything Is Free” this past weekend. “Everything Is Free” has become a musician favorite in recent years, also getting the cover treatment from Father John Misty. Performing as part of Newport Folk Festival‘s three-day livestream, Barnett …
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