Imogen Heap, whose 2005 track “Headlock” just became her biggest hit ever after a belated viral surge on TikTok, is now letting fans legally borrow its vibe for their own songs via generative AI. Heap is the first artist to sign on for a new feature from AI-music platform Jen …
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The Grateful Dead will celebrate their 60th anniversary this year not only with a massive 60-disc live collection but also with a just-announced Best Of compilation. Fittingly titled Gratest Hits, the LP features nine classics from the Dead’s studio catalog, “Casey Jones” and “Friend of the Devil” to the Phil …
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David Thomas, lead singer of the avant-garage band Pere Ubu and the Cleveland proto-punk group Rocket From the Tombs, has died at the age of 71. Pere Ubu’s official Facebook announced Thomas’ death Thursday, adding that the singer died following a long illness; Thomas previously revealed that he was battling …
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While she’s currently getting blood-spattered in Ryan Coogler’s vampires-in-the-Mississippi-Delta horror film Sinners, singer-actress Lola Kirke has also released one of the sleeper country albums of the year. Trailblazer, the follow-up to her 2024 LP Country Curious, is a combination of woozy, mesmeric country songs elegantly paired with indie vibes. It …
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The brilliant career of New Wave icons the B-52’s will be chronicled in a lavish new box set, The Warner and Reprise Years, which will bring together the nine albums they recorded for the label from 1979 to 1992. The set, which arrives on June 20 in celebration of Pride …
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Just a few days after the surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band announced a reunion album and tour, the first single from that record has been released. Starting with a spooky spoken-word recitation that confirms Cooper as the Vincent Price of his generation, “Black Mamba” finds the 77-year-old …
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Billy McFarland has realized that he might be the problem with Fyre Festival. The convicted fraudster who founded the event is looking for someone to buy it from him after having to postpone its planned comeback, Fyre Festival II, twice. “For Fyre Festival 2 to succeed, it’s clear that I …
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“I don’t know if I’ve ever fully healed from anything that’s happened,” Jensen McRae says. That’s the crux of her new album I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!, the 27-year-old’s sophomore album and first on Dead Oceans (Mitski, Phoebe Bridgers). McRae, who was raised in Santa Monica, California, …
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Grupo Firme is ready to share their first studio album in three years. Rolling Stone can exclusively announce that the Eduin Caz-fronted band will release their LP, Evolución, on May 8. “It’s an album that means many things because each song has a little piece of me, most of the …
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Marina is reeling in the glory of a viral Coachella performance that cemented her icon status, and sharing more details about her anticipated album. On Tuesday, the pop queen unveiled the 13-song track list for her sixth studio album, Princess of Power, which drops June 6. The track list aesthetic …
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