Ed Sheeran has released “Bad Habits,” marking his official return to music after a two-year hiatus. The singer-songwriter co-wrote and co-produced the track with longtime collaborators Johnny McDaid (“Shape of You”) and FRED (No.6 Collaborations Project). In the accompanying music video, directed by Dave Meyers, Sheeran portrays a vampire alter-ego …
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If you’re excited to see F9, the latest edition of the Fast & Furious movie franchise, but can’t remember what happened before, James Corden has you covered. The Late Late Show host filmed a recap of the entire series that helps connect the dots between the feuds, car chases and …
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David Crosby is a longtime Steely Dan super fan; he’s called Donald Fagen one of his all-time songwriting heroes, and he lists Aja and the Royal Scam among his favorite albums ever created. But he never actually got a chance to work with Fagen until the sessions for his upcoming …
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Lucy Dacus delivered an inventive performance of “Brando” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday, June 21st. Filmed at the Virginia Repertory Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, the shot goes from gauzy black and white as Dacus and her band kick off the show to vivid color as a couple appear on stage …
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Hello, we’ve waited here for this. Foo Fighters’ sold-out, full-capacity Madison Square Garden show welcomed back more than just live music in New York. Over three loud, sweaty, emotional, and supremely fun hours, the band ushered back in the exhilarating familiarity of our pasts, giving an experience many music fans …
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François Ozon’s Summer of ‘85 — which adapts the YA novel Dance on My Grave, by Aidan Chambers — is moving but contained affair, aflush with overwhelming feeling but also distant from that feeling, probing but not always revealing, sensuous and charismatic but not always easy to like. It’s a …
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The Beatles: Get Back, director Peter Jackson’s long-in-the-works restoration and recutting of footage culled from the band’s Let It Be sessions, is set to arrive as a three-part Disney+ docuseries this Thanksgiving. Rolling out in three two-hour installments on November 25th, 26th, and 27th, The Beatles: Get Back utilizes over …
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Torres brings love to prehistoric heights in “Hug From a Dinosaur,” off her upcoming LP Thirstier. The accompanying video features saturated, trippy colors, with images of dinosaurs ranging from Brontosaurus to Tyrannosaurus rex. Torres, a.k.a. Mackenzie Scott, sings across crunchy guitar riffs: “Truth is ancient and eternal and surreal as …
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Fifty years ago on Thursday, President Nixon declared a “War on Drugs.” In a special address to Congress, he promised a coordinated federal response to drug addiction, which he described as a “national emergency” that “destroys lives, destroys families, and destroys communities.” Five decades and hundreds of billions of dollars …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Alongside our reporting, we invited four star artists to share their own predictions on the music industry’s wild next era. Read the other stories here. Joel …
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