Rush‘s Geddy Lee will participate in “The Show Must Go On: Stories of Resilience,” a virtual music and storytelling event organized by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The show takes place Monday, February 18th from 9:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET. Tickets start at $100 CAD; for an additional “Gala in …
Read More »Julien Baker Delivers Emphatic Performance of 'Faith Healer' on 'Colbert'
Julien Baker performed the lead single from her new album, “Faith Healer,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday, January 7th. Filmed at the Nashville venue Exit/In, Baker and her backing band moved through the expansive track and built steadily toward its final booming chorus. “Oh, faith healer, come …
Read More »Watch Alice Glass' 'Suffer and Swallow' Stop-Motion Animated Music Video
Alice Glass has released new song “Suffer and Swallow,” the first single from her upcoming debut album, due out later this year. The glitchy track deals in themes of reclaiming power over someone or something that seemingly held the control. “Suffer and swallow (suffer and swallow)/You know there’s no tomorrow …
Read More »'The Box' Was the Song of 2020
When we look back on 2020, many sounds will come to mind. The 7 p.m. cheers for frontline workers, Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight’s voices mingling together, the deafening silence of existential unraveling. But perhaps most of all, it will be “Eeh-uhrr.” “The Box,” Roddy Ricch‘s unrelentingly popular, unrelentingly squeaky …
Read More »Congress Passes Covid-19 Relief Bill With Funding for Live Music Venues
After a series of protracted negotiations that threatened to derail any financial relief for millions of Americans, Congress passed a new Covid-19 relief bill Monday night that will include funding for independent music venues that have been closed throughout the pandemic. The bill will now move to the White House …
Read More »Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, Anita 'Lady A' White?
So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Anita “Lady A” White had a complex 2020. Beyond her quarantine, the Seattle Blues singer …
Read More »Year in Review: So, How Was Your 2020, Ingrid Andress?
So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. With a breakout song under her belt in “More Hearts Than Mine,” Ingrid Andress hit …
Read More »Jack Harlow Rises to Number One on Apple Music Pre-Add Chart
Jack Harlow has been one of the biggest breakthrough artists of 2020, thanks to his piano trap hit “Whats Poppin,” which reached Number Two earlier this year with the help of DaBaby, Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne. So far this year, he’s seen over a billion streams, and reached Number …
Read More »Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys Gift Nineties Pop Fans New Song 'Matches'
Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys have gifted fans of turn-of-the-millenium pop with a new collaboration, “Matches.” The song is one of a handful of bonus tracks on the new deluxe edition of Spears’ 2016 album, Glory, which was released Friday, December 11th. As such, the origins of “Matches” are …
Read More »Year in Review: 10 of the Biggest Breakthrough Artists of 2020
It goes without saying that, for just about everyone, 2020 was a no-good, very-bad year. But for a handful of artists, it was, numbers-wise, actually a very good year indeed – the year they rose from obscurity to stardom, all without leaving their homes. But who had the best year? …
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