Five years is an eternity in pop. In 2016, This Is Acting, anchored by the moody party hit “Cheap Thrills,” cemented Sia’s status as a pop star. But in the time since, she’s seemed uncertain of her next step, and her moves were hesitant and tentative. There was a Christmas …
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update focused on the absurdity of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, hours after the former president was acquitted despite his role in the Capitol insurrection. “Like so many men living in Florida, Donald Trump has once again escaped from justice,” Colin Jost said. “This has to …
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Singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd is joined by his wife, country star Maren Morris, on the smoldering new duet “Chasing After You,” released on Friday. It is Hurd’s first release since putting out the EOM EP, which featured his single “Every Other Memory,” in 2020. Penned by Brinley Addington and Jerry Flowers, …
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Come on, girls! Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about “Express Yourself,” and she’s turned Madonna’s fourth-best single of 1989 into her own instant-classic club anthem, “Born This Way.” Except it’s actually much better than “Express Yourself,” because it’s faster, with Gaga chanting …
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Following the death of Elliot Mazer on Sunday, Neil Young took to his website to honor the engineer-producer behind multiple Young albums. Young wrote that he first met Mazer in Nashville in January 1971, when he was appearing on The Johnny Cash Show and working on his upcoming album, Harvest. …
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Waxahatchee performed a pristine rendition of her song “Lilacs” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday, February 9th. The performance took place in a big room with high ceilings, light pouring through the windows and reeds and other dry florals arranged around the room. As her backing band picked out the country-tinged …
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Foo Fighters partnered with Apple Music for their new Medicine at Midnight Radio series. The six-part project, which celebrates the band’s recently issued 10th LP, launched Monday with a debut installment featuring bassist Nate Mendel. In a statement about the show, frontman Dave Grohl noted, “We’re going to listen to …
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The newest release from Bruce Springsteen‘s official live album series is a show he played in Nice, France on May 18th, 1997. This was the tail end of the Ghost of Tom Joad tour and features a mixture of new songs like “Straight Time” and “Highway 29” with classics like …
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Cardi B has dropped the video for her new single “Up.” It’s her first new music since her 2020 megahit “WAP” featuring Megan Thee Stallion, which topped Rolling Stone‘s “Best Songs of 2020” list. In the Tani Muino visual, which was filmed over two days during Christmas break, Cardi appears …
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The House voted Thursday to decide whether to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene, aka the “QAnon congresswoman,” from her committee assignments based on her history of controversial comments, including liking comments on Facebook that called for the execution of Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats. ElevenRepublicans, including Rep. Adam Kinzinger, sided …
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