This summer, Shalfi Edu went viral without singing a note. The 25-year-old guitarist posted a video of his playing — full of flitting fingers, though the mood remains insistently tranquil — on the app TikTok, which now functions as music’s primary discovery engine. Edu added a caption out of a …
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A new documentary,Billie, will delve into the life of jazz great Billie Holiday with the help of hours of never-before-heard interviews. The project is centered around 200 hours of previously unreleased interviews that Linda Lipnack Kuehl conducted during the Sixties for a biography of Holiday that was never finished. The …
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Lil Wayne takes a journey through his various eras visually in his new video for “Big Worm.” The track appears on the deluxe version of his latest album, Funeral, which was released in May. In the Ray Kay and Lil Wayne-directed clip, the rapper is seen morphing through various looks …
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Curtis Waters finds himself unexpectedly content on “Freckles,” a new track filled with curt guitar and booming drums. “If love’s a game, then I’m winning,” he sings. “Unfamiliar feeling,” he adds — “usually I don’t feel alright.” Waters started “Freckles” following a run-in with an old friend. “After I left …
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Lady Gaga invited Ariana Grande back into the world of Chromaticafor a medley of songs from her latest album at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. Gaga’s performance begins in a bedroom where a vintage VMA preview plays on an old-school TV. She bursts out of bed, showing off a …
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The Avett Brothers took to Jimmy Kimmel Live! — virtually — to perform new track “Victory” in a field of lush sunflowers. The song comes off of their new EP, The Third Gleam, out Friday on Loma Vista Recordings. Siblings Scott and Seth Avett strummed the song while ambling in …
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Last June, Justin Townes Earle sat down for a typically frank and hilarious interview on our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Townes Earle had a lot to celebrate: an excellent new album, The Saint of Lost Causes, and a two-year-old daughter, Etta, at home.Ina free-wheeling, emotional conversation, Earle — who …
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It was supposed to be one of the proudest moments of her career. Adia Victoria was performing with her band at the historic Newport Folk Festival last year when, shortly after their set, a prominent artist performing at the festival went up to Victoria’s black drummer and, out of nowhere, …
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Katy Perry has released a new song, “What Makes a Woman,” from her upcoming albumSmile, out August 28th. The track, as you may have guessed, is a celebration of womanhood — and, in a live performance video directed by Tim Sekiguchi, a pregnant Perry delivers a stripped-down, emotional version of …
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UPDATE (8/26):Inside Lands — Outside Lands‘ virtual fest — has added Elton John and LP to its lineup. John’s performance comes from the archives while LP’s will be live. *** Outside Lands will host a two-day virtual festival, aptly named Inside Lands, August 28th and 29th, featuring live and archival …
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