Texas country-punk-garage rock outfit Ottoman Turks cook up some molten, Black Sabbath-influenced riffs with their new song “35 to Life.” The track, accompanied by a gory, slasher flick-style video, will appear on the group’s second album, titled Ottoman Turks II, which arrives on March 5th, 2021. In “35 to Life,” …
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The Weeknd will serve as headliner of the Super Bowl LV halftime show, the NFL and the New York Times revealed Thursday. “We all grow up watching the world’s biggest acts playing the Super Bowl, and one can only dream of being in that position,” Abel Tesfaye said in a …
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The nonprofit Nurse Heroes has announced a benefit concert on Thanksgiving to help support essential medical workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nurse Heroes Live!, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and produced by Emilio Estefan, will be broadcast worldwide at 7:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, November 26th, and will feature performances from …
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If you haven’t already heard of Davido, you will soon enough. The 27-year-old Atlanta-born, Lagos-raised star is Nigeria’s king of afrobeats music. The business school dropout with a wealthy businessman father (his 2012 debut, Omo Baba Olowo, translates to “rich man’s son”) has been famous across Africa for years; here …
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As part of the 50th-anniversary celebration for his album Tumbleweed Connection, Elton John has released a previously unheard jazz version of “Come Down in Time.” Recorded on March 20th, 1970, at Trident Studios in London, “Come Down in Time (Jazz Version)” more than doubles the length of the final version …
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Joe Sumner, frontman of Fiction Plane and son of Sting, has shared a new song, “Hope,” along with a short celebrity-filled clip to encourage voter turnout ahead of the 2020 elections. “Hope” is a bustling pop-rock track with rumbling drums and stirring guitar lines to bolster Sumner’s heart-on-sleeve lyrics: “Hope, …
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Foo Fighters parody those nonstop prescription medication TV commercials in an elaborate faux ad for Freshpotix, which the band posted on YouTube Wednesday. The clip stars Dave Grohl as a former coffee addict whose love of the bean caused friction between him and his Foo Fighters bandmates. “Ten years ago, …
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Adele sang snippets of her biggest hits while competing in Saturday Night Live’s The Bachelor sketch, which pitted the singer against a bunch of Hannahs for the affections of Beck Bennett’s “Ben K.” “I’m here because I’ve had a lot of heartbreak in my life, first at 19, then sort …
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Kylie Minogue has released a euphoric new song, “I Love It,” from her upcoming album, Disco, out November 6th. “I Love It” is pure Studio 54-era pastiche, from the opening sweep of strings to its pulsing four-on-the-floor groove, tender electric keys, and the rapturous horns that pop up throughout. “Your …
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Rico Nasty has tapped Gucci Mane and Don Toliver for a new song, “Don’t Like Me,” the third single from her upcoming album, Nightmare Vacation, out this December via Atlantic. The track boasts an ebullient beat with soft synth plunks shimmering atop booming bass and crisp drums. Rico leads the …
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