Christmas music flooded the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. In what’s becoming an annual tradition, Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” returned to Number One, with more than 22 million streams. Brenda Lee‘s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” glided to Number Two (18.9 million streams), …
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UPDATE (12/7): Neil Young has voluntarily dismissed his copyright lawsuit against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to court documents filed Monday, December 7th. The musician accused the Trump campaign of playing “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “Devil’s Sidewalk” at rallies without obtaining the proper licenses. A representative for Young …
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RCA Records has unearthed a previously unreleased Britney Spears track, “Swimming in Stars,” to celebrate the pop star’s 39th birthday. Spears recorded “Swimming in the Stars” during the sessions for her 2016 album, Glory, and the track was written by Matthew Koma, Dan Book, and Alexei Misoul. It boasts a …
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Sheryl Crow paid tribute to Tom Petty on Wednesday’s Tonight Show with a cover of “You Don’t Know How It Feels.” For the outdoor performance, the singer first performed the song solo on acoustic guitar and harmonica before she’s joined — thanks to some clever editing — by other Sheryl …
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One of the greatest songwriters ever, Smokey Robinson, looks back on his singular career in the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, breaking down his artistic process and telling vivid tales of how he wrote “Shop Around,” “My Girl,” “My Guy,” “I Second That Emotion,” “Ooo Baby …
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The 2020 American Music Awards will air live from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater on Sunday, November 22nd on ABC beginning 8 p.m. EST/PST. The year’s event — which will adhere to Covid-19 social distancing guidelines — features performances by Billie Eilish, Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber (both separate and together), …
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Toronto singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas has released a new version of her song “Pray It Away,” now as a duet with the National‘s Matt Berninger. The track was originally included on Georgas’ latest albumAll That Emotion, released in September and produced by another National member, Aaron Dessner, for his label Brassland. …
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Ahead of his new compilation Film Music 1976-2020, Brian Eno has released a dark new video for “Decline and Fall” from the O Nome da Morte soundtrack. The 2017 Brazilian film translates to Tarnished Land. It was directed by Henrique Goldman, who also directed Eno’s new video. The clip opens …
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Netflix has released a harrowing new trailer for Mosul, its upcoming film about an elite group of Iraqi soldiers trying to take down ISIS, set to arrive on November 26th. The film is loosely based on a 2017 New Yorker article about the fight to defeat ISIS after it took …
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Gorillaz go on a Grand Theft Auto-like joyride through Los Angeles — with Beck tagging along via FaceTime — in the band’s new video for “The Valley of the Pagans,” the latest single off Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez from Damon Albarn’s cartoon outfit. In the video game-inspired visual, …
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