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Edgy And Dull: 20 Covers Of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire,” Rated
A few weeks back, we premiered Low's cover of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire," and it was great (more on that below). It's their contribution to a forthcoming Springsteen tribute titled Dead Man's...
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The Week In Pop: Get Used To Calvin Harris Being The Biggest DJ In The World
Calvin Harris is the biggest DJ in the world. This is true in terms of dollars (he's Earth's highest-paid party-rocker, by an even larger margin than last year) and human bodies (he appeared to draw...
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The SpongeBob Musical Includes New Music By David Bowie, Dirty Projectors,...
SpongeBob SquarePants is making its way to Broadway. According to Entertainment Weekly, a musical based on the popular long-running Nickelodeon series will debut in June 2016 in Chicago, with a move to...
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MusiCares’ Lionel Richie Tribute Lines Up Stevie Wonder, Pharrell, Demi...
Lionel Richie is the latest legacy artist to be honored with the MusiCares Person Of The Year award -- last year's was Bob Dylan -- and the organization has just announced who will be performing at the...
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Corny Pop-Rap Will Never Die
Macklemore flopped. We won't have official figures until a few days from now, but This Unruly Mess I've Made is only projected to sell about 50,000 copies in its first week -- probably good for a top-5...
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Country Catch-Up: Rating The Genre’s Most Popular Albums Of 2016 So Far
Big wheels keep on turning. Like any self-sustaining music ecosystem, the country music industry continues to churn out hits all year round, and occasionally this column checks in on that world --...
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I Guess This Is Growing Up: Blink-182 Are Back For Mall Punk’s Classic Rock...
Hey you! Out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old: Everything you grew up on is classic rock now. It's something every generation has to grapple with, but like college, marriage, raising...
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Movie Musical Soundtracks Have The Charts Feeling Like La La Land
This is one of my more controversial views, a position so conservative some might call it retrograde, but in light of this past week’s events I'm feeling emboldened to revel in it: I thought La La Land...
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There’s Only One Way To Find Out If The Grammys Will Suck Again This Year
Remember last year when it seemed like the Grammys might turn out OK and then they sucked as usual? They will probably suck again this year! But damn, NARAS does a good job of getting my hopes up every...
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Watch Jimmy Kimmel Introduce Lady Antebellum/Bell Biv DeVoe Mash-Up Monday...
Every once in a while, Jimmy Kimmel Live brings back its goofy-as-fuck Mash-Up Monday series, in which artists perform together simply because someone thought of a way to turn their names into a pun....
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Soft Times: On Paramore’s Surprising Retro Reboot
Pity the MySpace-era emo fan -- for many reasons, but especially because none of their old heroes are doing it like they used to. Kings of bombast Fall Out Boy started adding cyborg limbs to their...
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“Despacito” Could Signify A Latin Pop Resurgence Or Just Justin Bieber’s...
It's not every day a song sung primarily in Spanish goes to #1 in the US. It's not even every decade. But "Despacito," a collaboration between Puerto Rican stars Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, has done...
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Hey Violet: When Going Pop Goes Right
If all songs are mirrors, revealing something about each listener depending on their reaction, "Guys My Age" is particularly reflective. Hearing 19-year-old Rena Lovelis dismiss her young male...
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In The Future, All Albums Will Be Produced By Jack Antonoff
A certain nervous tension arose when young New Zealand pop visionary Lorde announced that her new album Melodrama would be entirely co-produced by Jack Antonoff -- not because he lacks talent but...
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We Are Entering A Golden Age Of Pop Posse Cuts
Who knew the Moulin Rouge-era "Lady Marmalade," which pointed to the past in so many ways, would become such a prescient harbinger of the future? The year was 2001, and to promote his long-awaited...
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The Greatest Showman Soundtrack(?) Is 2018’s Biggest Album So Far
We've reached the point where hit movie musicals sound like Imagine Dragons. "The Greatest Show," the opening number on The Greatest Showman's soundtrack album, initiates with an onslaught of harshly...
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Bruce Springsteen To Receive Honorary Tony Award, Flaming Lips Among Artists...
Bruce Springsteen has already extended the run of his Springsteen On Broadway show twice now. There's a good chance that he'll never leave Broadway. And now Broadway is rewarding his commitment by...
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All I Want For Christmas Is No More Covers Of “All I Want For Christmas Is You”
If "half a billion views on YouTube" is any criteria to go by, there's really only one candidate for a modern Christmas standard, and by "modern" I mean "recorded after Bing Crosby's lifetime." With...
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CMAs: Watch Performances By The Highwomen, Halsey, Kacey Musgraves, & More
The coolest thing that happened at last night's CMA Awards: Ashley McBryde won New Artist of the Year. (Not bad for a Girl Going Nowhere.) Also, a lot of big names performed.
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Carly Rae Jepsen’s Joyous Low-Stakes Rom-Com Continues Unfettered
The television landscape in this era of Peak TV comprises many overlapping tiers and ecosystems. Within this moment of seemingly infinite choice, there are genres -- dramas, comedies, talk shows,...
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Lady Antebellum, Citing Racial Sensitivity, Change Their Name To Lady A
The Nashville country trio Lady Antebellum have been around for well over a decade, and they've found huge success while using a name that most of us would consider to be questionable at best. Today,...
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Blues Singer Lady A Condemns Lady Antebellum’s Name Change
Yesterday, the Nashville country trio Lady Antebellum announced that they would be changing their name to "Lady A" due to the term antebellum's inescapable association with slavery and racism. The only...
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Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood Apologizes For His “Drunken Joke” Of A Band...
Recently, several music industry institutions have decided to change their names due to the renewed dialogue about racism in the wake of George Floyd's murder. Nashville country trio Lady Antebellum...
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Lady A, The Band, Sue Lady A, The Singer
Last month, the popular Nashville country trio Lady Antebellum announced that they were changing their name to Lady A due to the term antebellum's unfortunate association with slavery. Which was all...
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Lady A Responds To Lady A(ntebellum) Lawsuit
Yesterday, the Nashville country trio Lady A(ntebellum) filed a lawsuit against blues singer Lady A over their right to use the same name after they announced last month that they were changing it due...
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Lady A Explains Why Co-Existence With Country Band Will Not Work: “Lady...
After changing their name to Lady A for racial sensitivity reasons, the pop-country trio formerly known as Lady Antebellum then decided to sue a blues singer also named Lady A over their right to use...
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Watch Lady A Discuss Her Conflict With Lady Antebellum On Desus & Mero
Nashville pop-country band Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A last month. As they explained to their fans, they dropped the Antebellum because "we did not take into account the associations...
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Blues Singer Lady A Countersues Country Band Lady A For Trademark Infringement
The saga of Lady A vs. Lady Antebellum continues: As Rolling Stone reports, Lady A, the Seattle blues singer born Anita White, countersued Nashville pop-country band Lady A -- fka Lady Antebellum --...
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Battle Of The ‘00s Hard-Rock Bands
Change is inevitable. The clock ticks, the earth travels around the sun, we age and celebrate birthdays/anniversaries, and time marches on. But if you tab over to Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay...
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