Machine Gun Kelly made his name as a Cleveland rapper known for his high-adrenaline rhyming style and occasional beefs with Eminem. But on Tickets To My Downfall he tries a new gambit that works surprisingly well, switching to late-Nineties/early-2000s pop punk, with Blink 182’s Travis Barker producing and playing drums. …
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Blackpink released their debut full-length studio LP, The Album, at midnight on Thursday alongside dropping a new video for their new single, “Lovesick Girls.” The K-pop stars premiered the video during the debut of YouTube Originals 16-episode music series Released. In the clip, Blackpink’s Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa declare …
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Keith Richards‘ December 15th, 1988 live recording of the penultimate show from his first U.S. tour with the X-Pensive Winos will be reissued as a limited edition box set. Live at the Hollywood Palladium arrives on November 13th via BMG. The concert was part of a 12-city tour that followed …
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Last week, Rolling Stone published our completely updated list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In making the new list, we received more than 300 ballots from artists, critics and other figures from throughout the music industry. Among them all, the first ballot that came in was from …
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Youngboy Never Broke Again retained the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of September 18th through the 24th. The rapper pulled in 119.3 million on-demand audio streams, which was down from the 180.3 million he garnered last week, but still enough to just …
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Jaren Johnston talks about the challenges of getting played on country radio, how he writes songs for specific artists, and the time he met Meat Loaf in an elevator as Chris Shiflett‘s guest on Walking the Floor. The Cadillac Three singer-guitarist wrote a few songs with Shiflett prior to taping …
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As part of our newly updated survey of the500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making and impact of key records from the list. Drake‘s Take Care came in at number 95. So many artists have borrowed or copied the template of Drake’s …
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Pixies celebrate creativity in the desert in the visual for their new single “Hear Me Out.” Directed by Maximilla Lukacs, the video depicts two cowboys creating art and finding beauty in the oft-considered barren landscape of the desert plains. In various scenes, we see them pondering over a typewriter, painting …
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Celebrated Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez has released a new lyric video for his cover of Eric Clapton’s 1998 song “My Father’s Eyes,” which features Clapton himself. Martinez’s version transforms the slick, blues-pop tune into a rollicking, uptempo song packed with plenty of drums, horns, piano and classic Clapton guitar lines. …
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 has followed up its teaser trailer with a three-minute preview for Aaron Sorkin’s all-star retelling of the event, arriving on Netflix in October. “What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police …
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