The Replacements have unearthed a previously unreleased demo of “I Don’t Know,” which is set to appear on the upcoming reissue of their 1987 album, Pleased to Meet Me, out October 9th via Rhino. The demo version, unsurprisingly, is rougher around the edges, although that’s certainly not a negative when …
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100 Gecs, the critically beloved, genre-blending, extremely online duo from St. Louis, take Number One on the Breakthrough 25 Chart, which ranks the fastest-rising emerging artists of the month. While Dylan Brady and Laura Les won over a number of music fans last year with their debut studio album, 1000 …
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Ticketing and concert promotion giant Live Nation Entertainment saw a 98% drop in revenue in its second quarter compared to the same quarter in 2019, the company said in its earnings report on Wednesday — in a stark portrait of just how badly the coronavirus pandemic has upended live music. …
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President Donald Trump has largely avoided subjecting himself to the scrutiny of a one-on-one interviews with actual journalists. There’s a good reason for this. We caught a glimpse of it last month when Chris Wallace of Fox News dismantled Trump’s argument that Joe Biden wants to defund the police. But …
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More than 20 plaintiffs, many of whom are underaged and therefore represented by their legal guardians, are listed in a new class-action lawsuit against TikTok, which is owned by a Beijing-based tech company called ByteDance. NPR, who was first to report on the class-action, pointed out that this is the …
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Anohni has released a new single featuring a pair of covers: Bob Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” and an old live rendition of Nina Simone’s “Be My Husband.” Both songs are available digitally and will be released on vinyl October 2nd via Secretly Canadian. In a press release, …
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Curtis Waters serves up a “bittersweet thank you/apology” in “The Feelings Tend to Stay the Same,” his second new track since “Stunnin’” became a breakout single. “The Feelings Tend to Stay the Same” is concise and contrite, a guitars-and-808s power ballad dedicated to an old flame from his college days. …
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A$AP Ferg, Nicki Minaj and Atlanta rapper MadeinTYO are here with the hottest indoor workout of the summer. The trio have teamed up for a new song, “Move Ya Hips,” released on Thursday with a video styled after late-night fitness infomercials. Although this is technically an A$AP Ferg track, and …
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HBO has released an ominous first teaser for its upcoming docuseries The Vow, which chronicles the wild story of NXIVM, a self-help group that was allegedly masquerading as an abusive sex cult. The show will premiere August 23rd on HBO. The first teaser for The Vow is styled almost like …
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Corey Taylor has announced his debut album CMFT, with the Slipknot and Stone Sour singer also dropping the LP’s first two singles: “CMFT Must Be Stopped” and “Black Eyes Blue.” Due out October 2nd via Roadrunner Records, the genre-spanning CMFT — short for “Corey Mother Fucking Taylor” — sees the …
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