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Schoolboy Q Announces New Album Blue Lips
Schoolboy Q is on his way back. The Top Dawg Entertainment rapper has shared the tracklist for his new album, Blue Lips, and indicated that it will arrive on March 1. See the tracklist trailer below. Schoolboy Q has been relatively quiet since releasing his fifth studio album, Crash Talk, in April 2019. Prominently, he was on “Pac-Man,” with Gorillaz,…
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SZA to Perform at 2024 Grammys
After earning the most nominations at this year’s Grammy Awards, SZA has been announced as a performer at the event on Sunday, February 4. SZA is up for nine awards, including Album of the Year. The other performers at the 2024 Grammys include Joni Mitchell, Burna Boy, Luke Combs, Billie Eilish, Billy Joel, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Travis Scott, and…
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LCD Soundsystem Announce Spring Tour of North America
LCD Soundsystem have announced a bunch of spring 2024 North American tour dates. The newly announced concerts take place in Guadalajara, Mexico; Bend, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Chicago, Illinois. After the spring shows, James Murphy and the band will perform in the summer in the United Kingdom and Europe. See LCD Soundsystem’s tour dates below. In 2023, LCD…
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YFN Lucci Agrees to Plea Deal in Atlanta RICO Case
In January 2021, YFN Lucci was charged with murder and accused of killing a 28-year-old man named James Adams in Atlanta. A few months later, he the murder charge became part of a vast indictment that targeted alleged Bloods gang members. The Atlanta rapper has now reached a deal with prosecutors and agreed to plead guilty to one count of…
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Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of the Shangri-Las, Dies at 75
Mary Weiss, the lead singer of the formative girl group the Shangri-Las, has died, confirmed Miriam Linna of Norton Records, the label that released Weiss’ lone solo album, Dangerous Game, in 2007. “Mary was an icon, a hero, a heroine, to both young men and women of my generation and of all generations,” Linna told Rolling Stone. No cause of…
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Shygirl Shares Song From New Club Shy EP: Listen
Shygirl has announced a new EP, Club Shy. It’s out digitally February 9 via Because Music; a pink vinyl release will follow on March 29. She’s also released a new song called “Tell Me,” a collaboration with Boys Noize. The new EP features Empress Of, Cosha, and Lolo Zouaï, plus production contributions from Kingdom, SG Lewis, Karma Kid, and Sega…
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Patti Smith Honors Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone at National Board of Review Gala
At its paramount, the merging of art and activism provides the people with revolutionizing truth, exposing what must be exposed and raising up what must be raised. Martin Scorsese’s film Killers of the Flower Moon presents an abysmal shard of American history, confronting our conscience with the collective experience of Indigenous People globally. It pierces the vein of human weakness,…
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Ride Announce New Album Interplay, Share New Song “Peace Sign”: Listen
Ride have announced their new album: Interplay is out March 29 (via Wichita/PIAS). It’s the shoegaze band’s latest album since its reunion, after 2017’s Weather Diaries and 2019’s This Is Not a Safe Place. Check out Ride’s new song, “Peace Sign,” below. “This album has taken a long time to make, and has seen the band go through a lot…
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21 Savage Enlists Donald Glover and Stranger Things’ Caleb McLaughlin for New Movie American Dream: Watch the Trailer
21 Savage, Donald Glover, and Stranger Things’ Caleb McLaughlin have come together for a new movie about the Atlanta rapper’s life and infamous 2018 arrest by the United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In a new trailer, which doubles as a music video for a brand new 21 Savage song, Glover and McLaughlin play 21 Savage at various points…
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The Smashing Pumpkins Publicy Seeking New Guitarist
The Smashing Pumpkins have put out a call for a new guitarist on Instagram. “The Smashing Pumpkins are in search of an additional guitarist,” the note, which includes an email (SPGuitar@redlightmanagement.com) to which applicants can send résumés and related materials, reads in part. “The application process is open to anyone who may be interested.” The open call follows the departure…
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