Ray Fulcher was onstage at Nashville club the Listening Room earlier this summer playing songs to an audience of tourists and a smattering of locals. They cheered for “Does to Me,” the Number One that Fulcher co-wrote for Luke Combs and Eric Church, and raised their bottles for fresh anthems …
Read More »Hayes Carll Says Take My Good and My Bad in New Song 'You Get It All'
“I knew the night we met that you get it all,” Hayes Carll sings in his new song, a simple declaration of love and all the good and bad that comes with it. “All my lows and all my highs/all my truth, all my lies/all my rights and all my …
Read More »Hear Belly Team Up With the Weeknd, Young Thug on 'Better Believe'
Belly has dropped a new song, “Better Believe,” featuring appearances from the Weeknd and Young Thug. The track is accompanied by a glossy, action-packed music video directed by Christian Breslauer. “Better Believe” will appear on Belly’s forthcoming album See You Next Wednesday, which is slated for release this summer via …
Read More »Trippie Redd, Lil Uzi Vert Hit the Arcade in New 'Holy Smokes' Video
Trippie Redd and Lil Uzi Vert have teamed up in the video for new song “Holy Smokes.” The track is expected to appear on Trippie Redd’s upcoming Trip at Knight album. The Mooch-directed video opens with an explosion lighting up the night sky over a city, which signals something strange …
Read More »Brandi Carlile Previews New Album With Cathartic Song 'Right on Time'
Brandi Carlile will release the follow-up to her Grammy-winning By the Way, I Forgive You this fall. The new album, titled In These Silent Days, arrives via Low Country Sound/Elektra Records on October 1st and includes the first single “Right on Time,” premiering Wednesday. “Right on Time” leads off In …
Read More »Pop Smoke's 'Faith' Dilutes Its Star's Intensity With Endless Features
Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, may be impossible to duplicate. It was arguably the hip-hop event of a pandemic-blighted year, generating hit singles even as fans of his mixtape work rebelled against everything from the initial Virgil Abloh-created artwork to an excess of …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Manager Settles 'Thunder Road' Debate Over 'Sways'/'Waves'
A recent debate over a lyric in a beloved Bruce Springsteen song has been settled by one of the rock legend’s closest collaborators. The intense argument between Springsteen fans began on July 3rd when New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman tweeted the “Thunder Road” opening lyric prior to a Springsteen …
Read More »Dustin Lynch Gets Back to Basics With Two Satisfying New Songs
Dustin Lynch offered up a pair of new songs on Friday. The surprise releases “Pasadena” and “Not Every Cowboy” are the country singer’s first new music to appear since his fourth album, Tullahoma, was released in early 2020. In comparison to the Tullahoma singles “Good Girl” and “Ridin’ Roads,” both …
Read More »Lucy Dacus Returns to Her High School for NPR 'Tiny Desk Concert'
Lucy Dacus sat behind an actual tiny desk for her NPR Tiny Desk Concert appearance, filmed at her high school alma mater, Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School in Richmond, Virginia. With her band — which includes two of her former classmates, guitarist Jacob Blizard and audio engineer Collin Pastore — …
Read More »Kyle Dion Taps Ja Rule for New Song 'Placebo'
Rising R&B singer Kyle Dion has released a new song, “Placebo,” featuring Ja Rule. The track will appear on Dion’s forthcoming album, set to arrive on August 20th via AWAL. “Placebo” boasts a soulful groove, with Dion lacing his pitch-perfect falsetto over crisp drums and a heady mix of synths. …
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