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The Verve‘s 1997 hit “Bitter Sweet Symphony” is one of the finest songs of the Britpop era, a classically Nineties expression of world-weary cool with just the right amount of English self-regard. It’s a song that only Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft could have written — except that he didn’t, according …

On Tuesday Ezra Furman announced a new album,Twelve Nudes, and released its first single, “Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone.” The song is accompanied by a surreal animated video by Beth Jeans Houghton, a.k.a. Du Blonde. “Desperate times make for desperate songs,” Furman wrote of the song in …

The Raconteurs released the new video for “Help Me Stranger,” the latest single off the reunited band’s upcoming LP Help Us Stranger. The video, directed by Yasuhiko Shimizu, finds Jack White, Brendan Benson and company performing the track in the studio and posing for what appears to be promotional photos. …

Lizzo, Martin Garrix, Macklemore and Patrick Stump will perform at the 2019 MTV Movie and TV Awards, which will air June 17th at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The appearance marks the first time Lizzo will perform at a major televised awards show. Garrix, meanwhile, will team with Macklemore and Stump for …

Cam strips away the immersive production of her collaboration with Diplo “So Long” in an intimate acoustic performance video. Driven along by Cam’s acoustic guitar, a banjo and the minimal percussion of a lone kick drum and some finger-snaps, the song is no less urgent. But it does breath a …

The neo-soul that enjoyed critical and commercial success in the late Nineties and early 2000s is a popular inspiration for young musicians today. But many forget that the best products of that period were more than just delicious atmosphere, cooled-out phrasing and lazy-but-spine-stiffening rhythm — the songs themselves were immaculate. …

Thom Yorke has revealed the sound and themes of his upcoming solo album in a cover story for Crack magazine. The album is reportedly being released by XL Recordings. It will be the Radiohead frontman’s third proper solo LP, and his first since 2014’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. In a wide-ranging …

Nils Lofgren has created a video for his new single “Pretty Soon” that shows the E Street Band guitarist playing the song on the grounds of the Gila River Indian Reservation near his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. The song is about a young man that joins the military to impress …

It’s a four-way tie for most nominations at the 2019 CMT Music Awards, as Miranda Lambert, Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Zac Brown Band each garnered three nods. The nominations were announced by “Closer to You” singer Carly Pearce this morning on NBC’s Today. Morris’ uplifting 2019 single “Girl” earned …

For most of his career, Gil Scott-Heron called New York home, but his Jamaican roots — a crucial if underexamined part of his life — were never far from the jazz-soul genius. Scott-Heron’s father, Giles, left his son when he was an infant to become a professional soccer player and …