Teyana Taylor looks back on the start of her career as a fated moment. She was a 15-year-old Harlem rose, singing and dancing in her neighborhood and obsessed with skateboard culture and BMX bikes. Entering the music industry at that age was the furthest thing from her mind until a …
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A representative for Demi Lovato said the singer “is awake and with her family” afterbeing hospitalized Tuesday for an alleged overdose. “Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everyone for the love, prayers and support,” a rep said in a statement to Rolling Stone. …
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Troye Sivan and Ariana Grande start their own party in the video for their collaboration, “Dance to This.” Sivan’s sophomore album Bloom is out on August 30th. The clip opens with Sivan sitting in a rec room-cafeteria setting where people are quietly eating and reading. Bored, Sivan brings a CD …
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DJ-producer Dillon Francis has announced the release date for his forthcoming Spanish language studio album. Wut Wutwill drop on September 28th via his IDGAFOS label. “The whole thing started from the Westside EP in 2011. I had just discovered moombahton and began experimenting with Latin styles,” Francis said in a …
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Lil Uzi Vert and Chicago rapper Juice WRLD wallow with video games and drugs on “Wasted.” The new track has a heavy trap beat, though its hook has a distinctly sing-song lilt. Juice WRLD croons about drowning his heartbreak in games of Grand Theft Auto, as well as other substances: “Wasted, …
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EDITORS’ PICK: The Carters, Everything Is Love “Everything is Love is the refreshing final chapter in a trilogy of albums that includes Beyoncé’s unburdening 2016 odyssey Lemonade and Jay-Z’s 2017 conscience-stricken apologia 4:44, glimpses inside a strained marriage from both sides,” writes Sheldon Pearce. “Everything Is Love is couples counseling …
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Florence Welch performs intricate, color-coded choreography in Florence and the Machine‘s artful “Big God” video. Autumn de Wilde (Death Cab for Cutie, Spoon, Rilo Kiley) directed the clip, which focuses on Welch and a group of dancers as they splash and stomp through a light pool of water against a …
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In the video for Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s “Apeshit,” the first visual from the pair’s surprise joint album Everything Is Love, the two stars romp through the Louvre in Paris, seizing center stage in a high-culture palace that – like most Western art museums – historically made little room for non-white …
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UPDATE: Representatives for Kesha and Dr. Luke both issued statements Friday, two days after it was revealed that the singer accused the producer (real name Lukas Gottwald) of raping Katy Perry in a text message Kesha sent to Lady Gaga. “Kesha and her legal team arefully awarethat Ms. Perry has …
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Electro-pop bandChromaticsunveiled a dark video for their new song “Blue Girl.” The track will appear on their forthcoming LPDear Tommy, which is due out this fall. Directed by Chromatics in collaboration with director of photography Rene Hallen, the video ruminates on the pain of romantic departures. “Blue one/ Don’t come …
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