The Weeknd has unveiled a new remix of his After Hours track, “In Your Eyes,” which features Doja Cat. The singer, aka Abel Tesfaye, released the cut at midnight on Wednesday. Despite the song’s buoyant, synth-tipped melodies, the lyrics hint at the doubts and fears that can transpire when expressing …
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Park Hye Jin’s 2018 debut EP, If U Want It, knit together sleek, understated house and brusque hip-hop to great effect. She sang and rapped in both English and her native Korean, throwing out jabbing, chanted phrases in blasé monotone over stubby keyboard loops and no-frills drum programming. Songs like …
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California culture and music is a big feature of the latest episode of Chris Shiflett‘s Walking the Floor podcast, which features country artist Jon Pardi — a native of Dixon, California — as the guest. Recorded during quarantine and through some intermittent WiFi issues, the episode lets SoCal native Shiflett …
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Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires aren’t used to playing empty rooms. “This is a lot like all the CD release shows we did before Southeastern came out,” Isbell deadpanned on Friday evening, speaking to a bare-boned crowd of cameramen and sound engineers scattered throughout the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville. Isbell’s …
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The cast of the hit comedy series Community is reuniting for a virtual table read to raise money for coronavirus relief. Ahead of the event, Oscar-winning screenwriter Jim Rash sat down for Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time” video interview series to talk about the first times wearing an outrageous costume …
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Josh Gad staged a virtual Back to the Future reunion on his new Reunited Apart YouTube series this week, and the turnout was pretty amazing. Not only did Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, director Robert Zemeckis, and screenwriter Bob Gale take part, but they also roped in Lea Thompson, Mary …
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This is the 10th installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronaviruspandemic. At 64, Marty Hom is a rock star among tour managers — the people who handle the day-to-day logistics of a tour, from scheduling hotels and …
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Ahead of the release of her new EP Pieces of Me Unplugged, pop star Tiffany strips down her 2018 song “Starting Over.” Unpluggedwill be released on May 22nd. On “Starting Over,” Tiffany looks past the loneliness and tears to find strength. “I know there is a place/Somewhere I belong,” she …
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Jordan Peele is back with more mind-bending dispatches from the fifth dimension in the new trailer for Season Two of his Twilight Zone reboot. All 10 episodes will premiere June 25th on CBS All Access. The new trailer doesn’t offer much in the way of specifics about various episodes, although …
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When Andre Harrell founded Uptown Records in 1986, he quickly honed the label’s musical approach. “Andre saw in the late Eighties how the hard-edged drama of rap music… was not incorporating all the rich cool smoothness and bright musicality that had built the house of R&B,” the longtime music executive …
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