Cynthia Erivo belts “Amazing Grace” as Aretha Franklin in a new teaser for Nat Geo’s Genius: Aretha, which premieres on March 21st. The 30-second spot (which will also air during the Grammys this Sunday, March 14th) centers around footage of Erivo as Franklin singing an a cappella rendition of the …
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Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief hit The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon Thursday to perform “Dragon Eyes” from her recent solo album Songs. Lenker kept the performance simple, strumming an acoustic guitar alone in front of a wall of windows. Big Thief is currently up for two Grammys at Sunday’s …
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South African DJ/producer Black Coffee linked up with a live band to spin a special set for NPR’s latest Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. The set was filmed in the auditorium of the National School of Arts in Johannesburg and it opened with Black Coffee and vocalist Soulstar performing their track, …
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Mumford & Sons’ Winston Marshall announced Tuesday that he would step away from the band days after the banjoist faced criticism for praising a book authored by Andy Ngo, a right-wing provocateur who condemned Antifa. “Over the past few days, I have come to better understand the pain caused by …
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Singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine announced a new Skullcrusher EP, Storm in Summer, out April 9th via Secretly Canadian. She previewed the five-track set with its title song, a delicate swirl of ringing guitars and banjo plucks. “And I wonder if I go back home, can I hide away?” Ballentine sings. “Or …
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Eminem takes aim at the “cancellation” attempts against him in the rapper’s new animated lyric video for “Tone Deaf,” a track off his 2020 LP Music to Be Murdered By – Side B. In recent weeks, a TikTok campaign called for Eminem to be “canceled” due to a resurfaced controversial …
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Fresh off the release of their new album When You See Yourself, Kings of Leon kicked off a two-night stand on The Late Show with “The Bandit,” a track from their latest LP. For the virtual performance, the Followill gang congregated on a soundstage to breeze through When You See …
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WASHINGTON — In the coming weeks, the battle over democracy’s future in America will hit a boil. On one side is a group that looks at the last election and sees a resilient but damaged system. A system that withstood —sometimes only barely — a raging pandemic, a conspiracy-theory-peddling president, …
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One wonders what Notorious B.I.G would have thought about smartphones. The late New York MC, who is the subject of a new Netflix documentary titled Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell, was an eager evangelist of the humble camcorder. Early on in the documentary, his longtime friend Damion “D-Roc” …
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Rostam is heralding the release of Changephobia, out June 4th, with the new single “4Runner.” The song drops Tuesday along with a video featuring a camera view of a moving vehicle speeding down highways through sunrise and sunset. “‘4Runner’ captures the intimate thrill of a road trip with someone special,” …
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