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It's been nearly three years since Justin Bieber released his latest album, Purpose, and it's been over per year since he ended his gargantuan, continent-spanning Purpose tour early due to pure exhaustion. Since then, JB's mostly chilled out, played hockey, gone to church, contributed to some top-notch one-off bangers, and most importantly, found love in a hopeless place. Although ev..
Read More5 Seconds of Summer's new single may be called "Valentine," although its accompanying visual is much more Halloween-esque than anything related to V Day. 5SOS drummer Ashton Irwin gets co-directing credit — alongside Andy DeLuca — on the stark, artistic vid, which hit YouTube on Thursday (September 13). It basically looks like the Queen II album cover come to life, with a number ..
Read MoreDua Lipa, additionally to riding high on a wave of pop-song guest spots in 2018, is now making her way around the world on The Self-Titled Tour. However her stop in Shanghai on Wednesday night (September 12) was marked by an incident directly affecting an audience of her fans. Social media footage from the show reveals venue security members removing certain fans from their seats; th..
Read MoreLast week, Lana Del Rey promised trim have "two end of summer jams for ya" out soon. The opening one has officially arrived by way of the a dreamy video that dropped Wednesday (September 12) for a song called "Mariners Apartment Complex." In it, Lana's voice gets to breathe over lush piano and string orchestration that sounds a little bit like Chris Isaak's immortal "Wicked Game." It..
Read MoreWhy is Ariana Grande's hair so big? Because it's full of secrets — and superpowers. The Sweetener singer — who's currently across the pond dazzling with the Brits with funky cover songs — appeared in a pre-taped sketch that aired on The Tonight Show on Wednesday (September 5). The premise: Ari's signature, sky-high ponytail is — gasp! — Sentient. It could pick up the phone,..
Read MoreOn August 14, 2003 (my 13th birthday, for those keeping score at residence, much of the northeastern United States and then some of Canada plunged into a blackout due to an apparent software bug, affecting 55 million people. In case you ask Silk City — the power team-up of Diplo and Mark Ronson – this is the exactly brilliant setting for their new music video "Electricity," featur..
Read MoreWith exactly one month to go up until A Star is Born hits theaters, it seems there's a new reason to be excited about it with every passing day. Today, that reason is Halsey, who's reported that she appears in the upcoming flick alongside fellow pop luminary Lady Gaga. In a tweet on Wednesday (September 5), the "Bad at Love" singer called the full experience a "life highlight" while ..
Read Moreone of the biggest songs of the 2010s is Thundercat's "Them Changes," a rumbling rumination on lost love that somehow sounds both like both the party and the hangover. That's primarily thanks to the otherworldly fretwork by Thundercat himself, a bass virtuoso whose mastery of his musical instrument is so realized, he's often playing melody and rhythm at the same time. You could also h..
Read MoreJust a number of years back, Teddy Geiger was known primarily for the mid-2000s pop-rock hit "For You I plan to (Confidence)" and for disappearing to the world of behind-the-scenes songwriting and studio work. Geiger penned songs for One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer, however the largest successes have come with her work with Shawn Mendes, including on all three of Mendes' top-10 ..
Read MoreIt's no secret that Selena Gomez has been laying low for all of 2018 (and even some of 2017). What she's actually been up to, though, is the subject of her latest profile over at ELLE — and the tl;dr that She is a) got new music on the way, and B) been volunteering at a business aiming to put an end to human trafficking. That's a lot to digest. Let's begin with the music. Near the..
Read MoreCalvin Harris has long been the low-king king of summer jams. In case you don't think that's true, go back and revisit "Slide" and ensure to queue up eternal banger "We Noticed Love" and excellent new entry "One Kiss." They'll help you remember. This year, whenever he wasn't teaming up with Dua Lipa (with help from Jessie Reyez on the writing end), Harris collaborated with silken cro..
Read MoreAriana Grande celebrated Aretha Frankin's life and legacy on Friday (August 31) with a powerful tribute at the late singer's funeral service. Taking the stage at Detroit's Greater Grace Temple, Grande brought her A-game to a moving efficiency of "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Organic Woman," a beloved hit from the Queen of Soul, who died earlier this month at age 76 right after battling p..
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