It’s fitting that Azealia Banks, a perennial magnet for both warranted and unwarranted controversy, has leaned into making music for the club. If her years in the public eye have proven anything, it’s that she’s too raw for the bright lights of pop fame. Her smattering of singles since the …
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Angel Olsen will travel back to the Eighties with an EP of covers, out digitally on August 20th. Olsen previewed Aisles with a cover of Laura Branigan’s “Gloria,” a sultry rendition with a slowed-down tempo. “I’d heard ‘Gloria’ for the first time at a family Christmas gathering and was amazed …
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Damon Albarn has released “Polaris,” the lead single from his upcoming solo albumThe Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows, out November 12th via Transgressive Records. The song arrived on Tuesday with an accompanying live performance video featuring Albarn on piano as he leads his band and a string …
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There are many reasons to revel in Summer of Soul, the acclaimed music doc premiering on Hulu this weekend. Across six days in 1969, tens of thousands of people streamed into a park in Harlem to see performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, B.B. King, Sly and the Family Stone, …
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“Do you see this poster?” the veteran female musician says, proudly pointing toward a framed club ad in her home in Woodstock, New York. “What does it say? ‘Beauty and the Beat’!” The woman doing the talking — in a casual white blouse, reddish-blond hair framing her ruddy face — …
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Model Ashley Morgan Smithline has filed a lawsuit against Marilyn Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, claiming sexual assault, sexual battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, human trafficking, and unlawful imprisonment, among other allegations. Smithline is the fourth woman to sue the shock rocker, following suits by Game of …
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Bruce Springsteen revived his Springsteen on Broadway residency on Saturday night. It was his first post-pandemic public performance, and the first Broadway show of any sort since theaters were shuttered in March 2020. That meant it was a very hot ticket that attracted the likes of Secretary of Transportation Pete …
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The trio Holy Hive mull blown chances and missed opportunities on their new single “Ain’t That the Way It Goes.” The track is the first taste of the group’s sophomore album, Holy Hive, due September 24. “Ain’t That the Way It Goes” pairs lead singer Paul Spring’s gaseous falsetto with …
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Brittany Howard will release Jamie Imagined on July 23rd via ATO Records. The album features reinterpretations and remixes of the songs on Howard’s 2019 album Jamie by artists like Common, Childish Gambino, Bon Iver, and Little Dragon. To preview the release, Howard shared Little Dragon’s remix of “Presence” along with …
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The first-ever David Bowie World Fan Convention has been scheduled to take place in Liverpool on June 17th to 19th, 2022, a weekend that coincides with the 50th anniversary of the late singer’s classic 1972 LP The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The convention …
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