Kenny Rogers Was Never Just One Kind of Artist
It’s easy to forget sometimes, after four decades of hits on the country charts and a dozen roles in TV westerns, that there was once a time when Kenny Rogers, …
15 Musicians (and One Label) to Support on Bandcamp Today
The coronavirus pandemic has put indie musicians in a tougher spot than most have ever been in before, with no ability to tour traditionally — and, therefore, sell more merch …
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Watch These Livestreamed Concerts During Your Social Distancing
At this point, just about every concert has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic — and if it’s not, you really shouldn’t be going anyway. As artists scramble to …
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Harry Styles’s Tiny Desk Concert Is Exactly What We Needed
Harry Styles wearing powder blue is a tonic and we are drinking it up. Styles wowed the folks at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, singing four songs from his sophomore album …
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Your Guide to the Extended Mythology of Jay Electronica, Rap’s Great Mystery
When he first emerged from the depths of the internet, Jay Electronica seemed to be a project about ambition. The enigmatic New Orleans rapper’s origin story, as told in a …
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The Many Different Lives of Stephen Malkmus
In a certain world, you could sum up the mid-’90s with Stephen Malkmus, crying while drinking a martini, singing Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. Malkmus’s group, Pavement, is still one of the great …
All Hell Has Broken Loose Within the Grammys
“Music’s biggest night” carried on mostly business as usual on Sunday, but prior to the Grammys ceremony, was overshadowed by weeks-long behind-the-scenes tension. Last Thursday, a dramatic news story broke …
BTS Army Isn’t a Cult, Despite What the ‘On’ Music Video Looks Like
Wait, has BTS been starting a cult this whole time? In their new music video for “On” the seven members — Jungkook, RM, J-Hope, Jin, Jimin, V, and Suga — …
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High Fidelity’s Music Supervisors Pick Their 10 Favorite Songs From the Show
When the High Fidelity reboot was in preproduction — before Zoë Kravitz had even signed on to play Rob, a role made famous by John Cusack in the 2000 movie …
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Joni Mitchell Is Making New Music Again, According to James Taylor
The folk goddess, the cheekbone icon, the Joni Mitchell has eschewed public life ever since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015, minus showing up to a select few events that …
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