Selena Gomez has released a demo version of her single “Lose You to Love Me.” The hit ballad appeared on her albumRare, released in January. Gomez co-wrote the single with her frequent collaborators Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels as well as producer Finneas, best known for his work with his …
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Department of Homeland Security officials were given “talking points” supportive of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who was charged with fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha, Wisc., in August, according to NBC News. The talking points, according to the report, instructed DHS officials to use “comments sympathetic” to Rittenhouse when questioned …
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Ani DiFranco encourages voting in the 2020 election in the new single “Do or Die.” Directed by Zoë Boekbinder, the accompanying video opens with DiFranco getting out of bed. “Do you ever just want to give up?” she sings. “Well, me too.” She shaves her head in her bathroom and …
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President Donald Trump and and former Vice President Joe Biden will square off in-person for the first time on Tuesday, and judging by Trump’s ludicrous insistence that Biden take a drug test prior to taking the stage, it’s probably going to be ugly. But more concerning than whatever low blows …
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The president seemingly does not care about the more than 200,000 Americans who have lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus, but we do know one thing he cares deeply about — his golf game. Before hitting the links at one own private golf courses in Virginia on …
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Quarantine darling Verzuz is one of the most effective major music promotion shows for artists looking to boost their streams, bar none. Since the pandemic began and Swizz Beatz and Timbaland decide to start Verzuz on Instagram Live (it’s now airing on Apple Music too), what was originally intended to …
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As part of our newly updated survey of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making of key albums from the list. Radiohead‘s OK Computer came in at number 42. Before OK Computer, Radiohead were seen by many as the band behind …
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Kanye West gave the world a rare glimpse into the music industry‘s labyrinth of recording contracts last week when he tweeted out his own paperwork with Universal Music Group —and then lambasted those agreements as exploitative and unfair, demanding his copyrights be returned to him. As far as the actual …
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Tim Heidecker and Weyes Blood have released “Oh How We Drift Away,” the album closer from their upcoming collaborative project, Fear of Death. Following the singles “Property,” “Fear of Death” and “Nothing,” “Oh How We Drift Away” fits into the rest of the album’s Bernie Taupin/Elton John writing experiment; Heidecker penned …
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Drive-By Truckers have released a pointed lyric video for “21st Century USA,” one of the understated highlights from the band’s 2020 record, The Unraveling. “I wrote this song during a rest stop outside of Gillette, Wyoming in January of 2018,” says the band’s co-frontman Patterson Hood. “Its blending of the …
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