A year after her powerful Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande still can’t let go of the lingering romantic dreams and bitter nightmares she was exploring in those songs. In her self-described “really vulnerable concept album,” she set out to make her answer to the Beatles’ Rubber Soul, in a hazy psychedelic …
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Doechii advocated for LGBTQ rights during an impassioned speech at the GLAAD Media Awards. While accepting the award for outstanding music artist, Doechii referenced the organization’s principles of “acceptance, inclusiveness, and empowerment” and decried that America isn’t showing enough of those virtues for LGBTQ+ people. “Those are the same things …
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The music executive FKA Twigs recruited actor/director Kevin Smith to play in the music video for “Childlike Things” couldn’t care less about whatever Eusexua is. The musician would describe it as a feeling, the kind that emerges after reaching euphoria on the dance floor. He would call it noise, just …
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Back in the 1880s, magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin used to stun his audiences with a trick he called “The Marvelous Orange Tree.” It was all very complicated, but, in the end, resulted in a lady’s handkerchief bursting out of the titular plant, held aloft by butterflies. There’s also fire involved. …
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Terry Manning, a music producer and engineer who collaborated with Led Zeppelin, Big Star, and ZZ Top, died at his home in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday. He was 77. Just two weeks earlier, a jovial Manning recalled working with Jimmy Page and other giants of the music biz in …
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Fans of Joe Jonas‘ music will finally get to listen to Music for People Who Believe in Love almost a year after he announced the album. On Wednesday, the JoBro revealed that he’ll drop his solo LP, which he postponed last year, on May 23. “Thank you for your patience. …
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Duffy has returned to the spotlight. On Thursday, five years after claiming she had been abducted and sexually abused, the Welsh singer appeared on TikTok to promote a new remix of her hit, “Mercy.” In the video, the singer is captured lip-synching to her 2008 hit before winking at the …
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A SZA and Chappell Roan song might just break the internet. On Wednesday, SZA shared a clip of Chappell Roan saying her name after being asked to name her “dream collaborator.” It turns out, Chappell is SZA’s ideal duet partner, too! “[I] actually didn’t believe this quote when I saw …
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After getting through a “nightmare” legal battle with their former managers last month, the boys formerly known as Why Don’t We are more united than ever. On Wednesday night, Daniel Seavey performed the group’s song “Fallin’ (Adrenaline)” during his solo show and dedicated it to his groupmates, all of which …
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Rapper Sheff G pleaded guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy on Wednesday and will be sentenced to five years in prison. Sheff G, real name Michael Williams, pleaded guilty today to multiple top counts of second-degree attempted murder and second- and fourth-degree conspiracy in exchange for an offer of five …
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