FIDLAR rail against a politically fractured, headline-obsessed, technology-riddled United States in their explosive new song “Too Real.” Throughout the clattering track, the indie-punk band call out government corruption, smartphones and EDM. “I’m sick of being in this stupid place/ I’m sick of being a part of someone’s database,” shouts frontman …
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“I hit the crumbling town,” Kyle Gilbride sings on “Future Hell,” the gripping new song from Philadelphia punk band Swearin’. Gilbride sounds lost and leery as he sings, narrating his own stammering journey through a landscape of mishap and misfortune. “People seemed like they were somewhere else.” In the five …
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The Pittsburgh label Nightfall Records will host a public vigil for rapper Mac Miller at Frick Park — also known as Blue Slide Park — on Tuesday at 5 p.m. EST. Miller died on Friday at age 26. “We would like to bring the city together in full force for …
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Mac Miller performed “Hurt Feelings” for a small, appreciate crowd at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood to celebrate the August release of Swimming. An official video from the performance was posted online on Thursday, the day before Miller was found dead in his home. At the Hotel Cafe, Miller’s “Hurt …
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In 2014, Kesha filed a lawsuit against the songwriter-producer Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, accusing him of sexual assault and emotional abuse; the two have been embroiled in court battles ever since. In a statement released on Monday, Gottwald’s legal team called Kesha’s initial accusation a “bogus complaint,” part of “a …
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Lil Wayne hosted his annual Lil WeezyAna Fest Saturday night at New Orleans’ Champions Square, where the rapper brought out surprise guest Nicki Minaj and accepted an apology from Birdman. The one-day fest, which doubled as a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the rapper’s landmark Tha Carter III, also …
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Kodak Black, the emerging Florida rapper whose rise in hip-hop was put on hold due to a prison sentence, is now a free man after being released from Broward County jail early Saturday morning. The 21-year-old rapper, born Dieuson Octave, served seven months in a Florida jail after authorities raided …
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The Kinks meditate on lazy days and mortality in “Time Song,” an unreleased track that’s on the band’s upcoming 50th anniversary edition of The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, out October 26th via BMG. “Time lives our lives with us, walks side by side with us/ Time is …
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The Struts indulge their glam-rock fantasies in the new song “Primadonna Like Me” as frontman Luke Spiller sings, “Do you wanna be a prima donna like me tonight? Don’t you know it’s all about me tonight?” The song’s everything-but-the-kitchen-sink production features layers of synths, a Rolling Stones–style guitar riff and …
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Gangsta rap was already a growing genre when N.W.A released their full-length debut, Straight Outta Compton, but none of the group’s peers inspired the same level of public vitriol or interest. Thanks to the notoriety around “Fuck tha Police,” which the FBI condemned, and their single “Straight Outta Compton,” whose …
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