Kim Gordon has re-recorded her single, “Bye Bye” — off her 2024 solo album, The Collective — especially for Donald Trump. On “Bye Bye 25!” she replaces her original lyrics with a list of all of the president’s favorite words: “intersex,” “Gulf of Mexico,” “climate change,” and “women,” among them. …
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“I am British, I am Jamaican, I am American. I am what I am,” says Slick Rick on “I Did That,” a track from Victory, his first album in twenty-six years. Born in Mitcham, London yet long considered a pioneer of ostentatious New York style and panache due to seminal …
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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,Drake teams up with Canadian rap newcomer Smiley, Kim Gordon has a potent pro-freedom message for Donald Trump, and Colombian hitmaker Feid surprise releases his seventh studio …
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Time fades away, but Neil Young never does. He’s been on a like-a-hurricane live roll lately with his ferocious new band the Chrome Hearts, who make their studio debut on Talkin to the Trees. The band came together fast last year, after Neil’s amazing spring tour with his old outlaw …
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Will Smith has a real problem on his hands: he can’t get enough of “Pretty Girls.” He details his addiction on the fun new song, which dropped today and follows his fifth album, Based on a True Story. Smith’s new song is catchy and light, a summer anthem from the …
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BTS’ J-Hope is back with another new single, “Killin’ It Girl,” featuring a guest verse from Memphis rapper GloRilla. Produced by Cirkut, Inverness, and Blake Slatkin the track starts off with a spare but propulsive beat that eventually opens up on the chorus with big pop synths. J-Hope delivers a …
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One night near the tail end of 2021, I received a text from Dillon Warnek. I didn’t recognize the number, a Washington state area code, or the name, but he said he was a songwriter here in Nashville with a record coming out, and that Margo Price and Jeremy Ivey …
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Swedish pop singer Zara Larsson has shared a new song, “Midnight Sun,” which will serve as the title track from her upcoming fourth album, out Sept. 26. “Midnight Sun” teeters the between ebullient and delirious, with production that nods to frenetic house breakbeats, serene trance synths, and big tent EDM …
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An ex-girlfriend of Sean Combs who claimed the mogul had been continually pushing her to have a “freak-off” before he allegedly drugged her at his Miami mansion in July — two months before he was arrested —has refiled her civil lawsuit under her real name. The woman, Chelsea Lovelace, filed …
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On her latest single “Wearing Black,” Laura Jane Grace declares: “My pride’s a riot, it’s not a parade.” The record’s accompanying Emily Esperanza-directed video gets the riot riled up in rooms full of sweaty bodies that took the leather and latex dress code quite seriously. “Wearing Black” carves out a …
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