Nile Rodgers reaches back to New Jack Swing, the brittle fusion of hip-hop and R&B that ruled the second half of the Eighties, on the new single “Sober” with his group Chic. Actually, it’s a little more complicated than that: This is a disco pioneer playing New Jack Swing with …
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Leave it to Paul Simon to look back not with anger but with fussiness. Timed to coincide with his farewell tour, In the Blue Light finds Simon rifling through his back catalog and remaking ten cuts from his post-Garfunkel albums. Given how notoriously meticulous he’s always been, you’d think Simon …
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Alt-J and Danny Brown explore how our governments perpetuate evil in their disturbing, computer-animated video for the Alchemist/Trooko version of “Deadcrush.” Brown stars in director Jeron Braxton’s warped clip, which draws on the aesthetic of Nineties video games. The piece is filled with demons, mutant dogs and government agents filtering …
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Pop experimentalist Empress Of has her sophomore album on the way, and from the sounds of its first single, the effervescent “When I’m With Him,” it sounds like it will be her most straightforward effort to date. The song, which has the dusty, throwback appeal of a Dev Hynes production …
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Eminem‘sKamikaze, the album he unexpectedly released Thursday night, was designed to sow controversy. Its most incendiary track is likely “Fall,” which features open disses towards a host of Eminem’s perceived foes, from hip-hop commentators Joe Budden and DJ Akademiks to Tyler, the Creator, who Eminem calls a “faggot” on the …
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Country-fried hip-hop/alt-rock troubadour Everlast returns next month with his first album of original songs since 2011, Whitey Ford’s House of Pain. The latest single, the chiming, heartbroken folk ballad “It Ain’t Easy” was written during a time of turmoil for the “What It’s Like” songwriter. “My oldest daughter was born …
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Louisiana-born crooner Luke James has appeared on a slew of great singles this year thanks to his star turn in the soapy Empire spinoff Star; he joined the cast in season two as comeback-trail-riding bad boy Noah Brooks, whose trip back to the top of R&B’s heap caused chaos even …
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Sofia Sanchez, the 11-year-old girl who Drake visited last week at Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital, received a heart transplant on Monday, the Associated Press reports. The rapper visited Sanchez after she appeared in a video dancing to Drake’s “In My Feelings.” Surgeons operated on Sanchez for nine hours. Cardiovascular surgeon …
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Three people were killed and nine injured when a shooter opened fire at a Jacksonville, Florida video game tournament Sunday. Audio from the shooting, which occurred during a sanctioned tournament for the Madden ’19 video game, was captured live over the streaming site Twitch. “Mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing. …
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Robert Redford plays a veteran criminal on the run from the long arm of the law in the latest trailer for The Old Man & the Gun,the legendary actor’s final film. The film builds on the true story of Forrest Tucker, a lifelong criminal who managed to escape prison in …
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