Katie Crutchfield made a major creative breakthrough last year with Saint Cloud, her fifth album as Waxahatchee. The Alabama-raised singer-songwriter was met with rave reviews across the board when the LP was released in March 2020, and enthusiasm for her clear-eyed country-rock songs about personal growth and domestic bliss held …
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After a brief cosmic rupture in which the universe pondered a parallel reality ruled by Post Malone, things have returned to normal: Drake is Number One. After ceding the throne to Post Malone in 2019, Drake is once again the most-streamed artist of the year, topping Rolling Stone’s Year-End Artists …
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Neil Young was not kidding when he said he was going to start releasing archival material at a much faster rate this year. Just weeks after the release of the 10-disc set Archives Volume II 1972-1976 and the live album/film Return to Greendale, he has announced that Way Down in …
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Neil Young has responded to the violent assault on the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., with an impassioned essay that blames President Trump, social media, and the partisan press for the tragedy. He also says the situation would have played out very differently had the rioters been black. “I was …
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Florida Georgia Line have released the song “New Truck” as the latest offering from their upcoming album Life Rolls On. Written with five additional co-writers including Priscilla Renea and Corey Crowder, the track finds the duo in familiar territory: singing about the deluxe features (“peanut butter leather kangaroo hide grip”) …
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Kings of Leon have returned with two new singles, “The Bandit” and “100,000 People,” off their upcoming album When You See Yourself, out March 5th. “The Bandit” is accompanied by a video shot in black-and-white, showing the band tearing through the new track live. “And they’re walking around/With their heads …
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Jazmine Sullivan recruits H.E.R. for her new song “Girl Like Me,” the latest single from Sullivan’s upcoming LP Heaux Tales. Built around a H.E.R. acoustic riff, Sullivan showcases her acrobatic vocals on the laidback Heaux Tales closing track, with the two vocalists singing in unison on the song’s chorus. “I …
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Sturgill Simpson delivered his bluegrass take on his 2014 track, “Life of Sin,” on The Tonight Show Monday, January 4th. The musician and his top-notch backing band delivered the song from the Station Inn in Nashville — a bluegrass hub in the city — with mandolin player Sierra Hull ripping …
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Harry Styles and Fleabag star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge dance their troubles away in the new video for “Treat People With Kindness.” The single appears on Styles’ sophomore studio album, 2019’s Fine Line. The elegant black-and-white visual features Styles performing at a night club where he invites Waller-Bridge to dance …
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Usher and a choir of over 90 singers from around the world deliver a multilingual version of “This Day,” a song from Netflix‘s recent holiday film, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. Usher and Kiana Ledé helmed the original version of “This Day” — written by Philip Lawrence and Davy Nathan …
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