John Legend brought the snap-and-clap spirit of the church to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The musician took the stage with special guest Black Thought and Tonight Show house band the Roots for a spirited performance of “Used to Love U” from his very first album Get Lifted. The …
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Becca Harvey, the 26-year-old Atlanta musician who performs as girlpuppy, speaks the same way she writes songs. She’s funny and sharp, talking with an air of whimsy and an earnest self-awareness that turns every almost-too-somber observation she makes on its own head. Just listen to her talk about her second …
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Aurelio Martínez, the celebrated Honduran folk musician who helped introduce the wider world to the music of the Garifuna people, died Monday, March 17, in a small passenger plane crash. He was 55. Martínez was one of 13 people who died when the small plane crashed moments after taking off …
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It is 10 p.m. in Seoul when Starship Entertainment’s latest girl group, KiiiKiii, pop up on Zoom for their first-ever global interview. The five members, who range in age from 14 to 19, greet Rolling Stone in Korean: “Hello, we are KiiiKiii!” But for the remainder of the conversation, they …
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Amid yet another deluge of shit-posting and antisemitic tweets, Kanye West dropped what appears to be his latest album, Bully. Ye offered up three versions — a “screening version,” a “post Hype version” and a “post post Hype version” — each one in the form of a 30-minute short film …
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Though Nigerian rapper Odumodublvck’s thunderous baritone sounds predestined for fame, he didn’t go looking for music at first. It found him. He had originally hoped to become a professional soccer player before a bad injury; after that, he pivoted to business and got a degree from University of Lagos. When …
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Erykah Badu fans have spent the past 15 years waiting for a follow-up to her 2010 LP New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), but it seems like they won’t have to wait much longer. In a new interview with Billboard, Badu revealed that she’s hard at work on …
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Remy Bond will be singing her “Summer Song” on the road. On Tuesday, the rising dream pop songwriter announced that she’ll be heading on the Star Shaped Baby tour starting on June 1. “Tropical storm coming to a city near you,” wrote Bond on Instagram, announcing the run of shows. …
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The world first met gyrofield because of a joke. It was 2019, and Kiana Li was a teenage music producer making beats on her computer from her bedroom in Hong Kong. She had 2,000 Soundcloud followers. “That was a good time,” she says with a smile. “I was feeling like …
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Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as minors in the bombshell doc Leaving Neverland, look forward to their day in court with apprehension andassurance in a new clip from Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson. Directed by Dan Reed (who …
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