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Taylor Swift Occupies Top 14 Spots On 'Billboard' Hot 100
It was inevitable after The Tortured Poets Department's record-breaking debut: Taylor Swift has also pioneered new achievements on the...
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Billie Eilish Announces 2024 & 2025 World Tour Dates
Billie Eilish’s new album Hit Me Hard And Soft is nearing its release. She’s not sharing any of the 10 tracks ahead of time, but she has announced a massive tour in support of the album today. Eilish will traverse North America throughout the last quarter of 2024, spend the late winter touring Australia, then hit Europe and the UK next spring and summer. I’m getting tired just reading all those dates.
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Usher’s Son Stole His Phone To Link Up With PinkPantheress
Usher is having a big year — the R&B linchpin released a new album called Coming Home and performed at the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Today, he took to Instagram Stories to tell a story about how his son recently stole his phone to try to link up with PinkPantheress.
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Talking Heads Tribute Album Tracklist And Release Date Announced
In January, A24 Music announced a Talking Heads tribute album entitled Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense. Today, they’re sharing the project’s release date — May 17 — as well as the full tracklist. Plus, Girl In Red’s cover of “Girlfriend Is Better” is out now.
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St. Vincent Releases New Single "Big Time Nothing": Listen
At the end of this week, St. Vincent will release new album All Born Screaming. Our pal Ryan Leas says it’s a return to form (though many of you have since insisted that Daddy’s Home did not leave Annie Clark in need of a comeback), and early singles “Broken Man” and “Flea” have backed up Clark’s talk of a return to her favored sonic vocabulary.
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Ohana Music Festival Announces 2024 Lineup
Eddie Vedder’s annual Ohana Festival is coming back to Doheny State Beach in Dana Pointe, CA this Sept. 27-29. Pearl Jam have a new album out, and they’ll be a huge presence at this year’s fest, with headlining performances Friday and Sunday night. In between on Saturday comes a headlining set from Neil Young & Crazy Horse, PJ’s longtime partners in rockin’ in the free world.
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The National's Aaron Dessner Shares Statement On New Taylor Swift Album
As you may have heard, today marks the release of Taylor Swift's new album The Tortured Poets Department, which turned out to be a surprise...
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Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Announce Sweat North American Tour
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan have been aligned for a long time. Both artists are the kind of streaming-era pop stars who command significant followings even if they don’t have a ton of chart success to show for it. Both are among the most critically acclaimed artists in their fields, known for bringing a stylish experimental edge to their music. They both are especially popular among queer audiences. Back in the late 2010s, they teamed up on the songs “1999” and “2099.” And now they’re...
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Future & Metro Boomin Announce We Trust You Arena Tour
Over the past month, Future and Metro Boomin have affirmed their place as two of the biggest, most important figures on the present-day rap landscape. Before this, Future, now 40, seemed to be slowing down and hitting the diminishing-returns stage of his career, while Metro was reaching the point where he was soundtracking cartoon blockbusters. But Future and Metro’s two collaborative albums have already reset the rap conversation, and now they’re heading out on an arena tour together.
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Jack Antonoff Writing Music For 'Romeo And Juliet' Broadway Reimagining
Jack Antonoff is doing the music for a new Romeo And Juliet adaptation that will premiere on Broadway this fall. As The Wrap reports, it’s billed as a reimagining of the Shakespeare play “with the modern political environment in mind.” It’s called Romeo + Juliet, though it apparently has no relation to Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 reimagining with the same title.