Alex Somers has revealed two solo debut albums — Siblings and Siblings 2 — out March 19th via Krunk. Ahead of the release, the producer and Jónsi collaborator dropped lead singles from each LP, “Deathbed” and “Sooner.” The tracks are both instrumental, with “Deathbed” containing deep, billowing exhales and “Sooner” …
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Morgan Wallen held onto the Number One spot on the Artists 500 chart for the fourth week in a row, despite an ongoing controversy after video emerged of him using a racist slur. For the week of January 29th through February 4th, Wallen earned 166 million song streams, up from …
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Phoebe Bridgers made her Saturday Night Live debut with a performance highlighting a pair of tracks off her 2020 LP Punisher, Number 10 on Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2020 list. Bridgers opened her musical spot with “Kyoto,” with the singer and her band all wearing her now-trademark skeleton suits. …
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Flo Milli has paired her single “Roaring 20s,” a Song You Need to Know, with a new video that throws back to the titular 20th century decade. In the Child-directed video for the Fiddler on the Roof-sampling hit, the Alabama rapper and her coterie of dancers stage a Roaring Twenties-era …
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Given all the strange, terrifying, and unexpected events of the past year, it may not surprise you to learn that a pop star chose to mash up Christina Aguilera-style Y2K melodies with Disturbed-ish nu-metal on her debut album. Even so, Rina Sawayama’s SAWAYAMA still felt like an unlikely – and …
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Promising Young Woman, The Crown, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom all picked up multiple nominations for the 2021 Golden Globe Awards. Leading all movie nominees this year was Mank, which earned six, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, where it’ll be up against Promising Young Woman, The Father, Nomadland, and …
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For 11 years, Genesis Lynn, the owner of Fetish Con, an industry trade show for people in the fetish industry, had relied on Twitter. Fetish Con had more than 55,000 followers, and used it to advertise her annual event, as well as new speakers and classes. Last August, after canceling …
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Pussy Riot have released a new song “Rage” amid a surge of protests in Russia over the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova wrote “Rage” with Chris Greatti, who co-produced the track with Crazy Demxns. The song was supposed to arrive later this year with Pussy …
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Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman says state Republicans removed flags supporting the legalization of marijuana and LGBTQ rights from outside his office at the state capitol. Undeterred, the Democrat called out “the gay flag police” and hung them back up. According to WGAL, the state Department of General Services said …
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The Weeknd discussed being shut out from the 2021 Grammy Awards in a new cover story interview with Billboard. Calling the snub “an attack,” the singer was just as surprised by his lack of nominations as were his fans, pop critics and industry insiders alike. “I use a sucker punch …
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