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Nicki Minaj and Zayn explore romantic frustration on their new EDM-pop song “No Candle No Light.” The duo exchange soulful lines about a doomed relationship over pulsating synths and gleaming electronics. “Hand on your hand, chest on your chest/ Tangled in bed, but I’m feeling you less,” Minaj croons. “You …

Building on a remarkable eruption of global listeners in 2017, Latin music has continued to soar on YouTube this year, according to data provided to Rolling Stone by the platform. The extent of Spanish-language pop’s domination is impressive. The three artists with the most views on the platform in 2018 …

Elvis Costello talked about his cancer scare and his new album Look Now during an interview Saturday with CBS This Morning. The appearance also featured a “Saturday Sessions” where Costello and his Impostors played three cuts off their latest LP. In July, Costello canceled a string of tour dates after …

With plagiarism lawsuits regularly blurring the lines of America’s legal system lately, some musical artists have taken to preemptively giving credit to songwriters if their tracks sound even remotely similar to another song. Taylor Swift did it with “Look What You Made Me Do” because she thought it sounded like …

Country crooner Brett Young offers an example of his new, upbeat approach with “Reason to Stay,” the third track released from his upcoming second album, Ticket to L.A. Co-written by Young with Jon Nite, Jimmy Robbins and Emily Warren, “Reason to Stay” follows in the sonic footsteps of the album’s …

Adam Hood’s last video for “She Don’t Love Me” found the songwriter buried alive by a heartless ex. In his latest clip for the song “Downturn,” off his superb album Somewhere in Between, he’s nowhere to be found. Instead, Hood cedes the spotlight to a pair of actors, who play …

When a band puts out a double LP and a further album of outtakes, it’s prone to be an eclectic body of music — and sure enough, Deer Tick‘s upcoming collection Mayonnaise appears to be just that, based on the evidence of the group’s full-throttle cover of the Pogues‘ “White …

The French pop star Jain recently stormed the rooftops of London with the London Contemporary Voices choir to film a new clip for her single “Alright,” a track off her recent Souldier album. As the women in the choir sing “doo-doo-doo” background vocals, she dances her way into the ensemble …

You may know Xiuhtezcatl Martinez as one of the teens suing the U.S. government for failing to take action on the climate crisis. By the age of 14, Xiuhtezcatl —pronounced “shoe-tez-caht” —addressed the United Nations on environmental policy in English, Spanish, and the Aztec language Nahuatl, his native tongue. As …

Earlier this week, the Spanish flamenco artist Rosalía could be seen standing on top of an ATV, singing and appearing to cry during a live-streamed album release show. As the 25-year-old’s mascara began to run, one of her dancers revved the vehicle’s engine to add percussive zing to a stark, …