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Ariana Grande has finally made her long-awaited return to music, briefly setting aside the makeup and movie sets for a big, muscular house
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We're nearly halfway into January now — and that's quite an accomplishment, especially considering that December is like if the Sunday Scar
The Black Keys are back with a new jingle written for Tide's Simply All in One laundry detergent — oh, sorry, it's actually the lead single
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It feels like there's been talk of an Amy Winehouse biopic for eons. Following the legend's death in 2011, Asif Kapadia's 2015 documentary
Indie rock stalwarts Superchunk have announced a brand-new limited-edition 7-inch single, "Everybody Dies" b/w "As in a Blender." The 7-in
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The debut album from Echoes Of… — the project led by Jerry Cans vocalist-guitarist and Aakuluk Music co-founder Andrew Morrison — arrives l
After Romy gave an update on the new xx album last week, excitement about the trio's imminent return is high — but that doesn't mean their
Wall of Eyes — the second album from the Smile — is set to arrive January 26. Until then, the band is tiding us over with the very Radiohea
A new documentary from Netflix about the making of the 1985 charity single "We Are the World" has received its first trailer. Arriving on
As reported back in the fall, Richard Reed Parry provided the score for the Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson-starring The
21 Savage, Donald Glover and Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin have teamed up for a new film about the Atlanta artist's life and 2019 a
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Radiohead recently got the N64 treatment thanks to some covers albums by producer on4word, who recreated the band's works using sounds from
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July Talk have a tradition of recording an annual cover in observance of the winter solstice. This year, they're commemorating the longest
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After scoring hundreds of films since 1961, esteemed film soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone died in 2020. He'll forever be remembered as
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1999 WRITE THE FUTURE — a new music collective helmed by 88rising and RCA Records — have made their debut with a star-studded single. BADBA
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Nathan Fielder's new show The Curse follows a couple as they prepare to launch their own HGTV show, and now the writer-actor has shared a p
Drake set a dangerous precedent when he let his son Adonis get in the booth for a verse on For All the Dogs. Now, other rappers, even on-an
Sleater-Kinney are gearing up to release their record Little Rope on January 19, and they brought its track "Say It Like You Mean It" to Ji
Po's time as the legendary Dragon Warrior is about to go "ska-doosh." In the first trailer for the beloved franchise's long-awaited fourth
Get ready to be transported to the Rock by St. John's-born comedian Mark Critch as he gears up to share the third season of his semi-autobi
Dua Lipa makes a bunch of shots go Houdini as the latest invitee to one of Seth Meyers's infamous day drinking sessions, which genuinely se