Clover Hope’s essential new book, The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop, doesn’t just tell the stories of the women who helped shape hip-hop, from the pioneering MC Sha-Rock to Cardi B. It also ends up telling the entire story of the genre through a brand-new lens. In the new …
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Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH performed his debut single “Distance,” a tribute to his late father Eddie Van Halen, on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. While Mammoth WVH is a one-man studio entity, the Kimmel performance served as the debut of the band’s touring unit. The track was penned while Eddie …
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Sufjan Stevens re-teams with Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino for the video for “Tell Me You Love Me,” a track off Stevens’ 2020 album The Ascension. The video, made in collaboration with photographer Alessio Bolzoni and artist Celia Hempton, is a reunion of sorts for Guadagnino and …
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The growth of streaming has brushed the dust off a historically overlooked sector in music: Publishing companies are no longer looked at as the awkward stepchildren of the industry. The fight for songwriters’ fair compensation and the now-undeniable popularity of catalog sales have put all eyes on publishers. So, it …
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Martha Reeves was just about to go to bed on Monday evening when she got the horrible news that her dear friend Mary Wilson had died. The two Motown stars had known each other since the earliest days of their careers more than 60 years ago, and they’d traveled the …
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Morgan Wallen spent his fourth consecutive week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Once again, he did not face a serious challenger: His 30-song set Dangerous earned 144,200 album-equivalent units, far more than Lil Durk‘s deluxe edition of The Voice, which earned the Number Two …
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When Jaten Dimsdale started putting cover performanceson YouTube under the name Teddy Swims in 2019, he tried everything from H.E.R. to George Strait, just to see who was listening. “It turned out that people were liking everything, or they just liked the personality. . . or my voice,” Dimsdale says, …
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Black Pumas have teamed up with Lucius for a cover of the Kinks‘ “Strangers.” The song appears in the trailer for the upcoming documentary Life in a Day 2020, which will debut on CBS prior to the Super Bowl on February 7th. Lucius’ Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig provide backing …
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Morgan Wallen‘s record label announced Wednesday morning that it has “suspended Wallen’s record contract indefinitely” following a video that surfaced showing the fast-rising country singer using a racial slur. “In the wake of recent events, Big Loud Records has made the decision to suspend Morgan Wallen’s recording contract indefinitely,” the …
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Rostam tackles global warming with the new single “These Kids We Knew.” “Ain’t proud of where we’re going/You say we can’t afford the slow down,” he sings across lush instrumentation as images of smog, cities, and running dogs flash across the screen. “But the skies won’t take it no more/So …
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