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Last month, Dua Lipa surprised with a unexpected, slow-motion cover of Arctic Monkeys' "Do I Wanna Know?" that showcased once again how good big, brawny rock songs can sound any time approached from another angle. Right now, 16-year-old pop whiz kid Billie Eilish has made a similar play, this time with "Call Me Back," a blue cut from The Strokes' 2011 LP, Angles. Playing as piece of ..
Read MoreRecently, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! stage has been a fantastic place to showcase acts whose fans can shout their songs back at them at maximum volume, making for electric performances — visualize the previous sets from Dua Lipa and Niall Horan for proof. The latest entry comes from Hayley Kiyoko, who stopped by on Tuesday (April 3) to bring "Curious" to a horde of admirers. The cooles..
Read MoreThroughout Demi Lovato's live shows on her Tell Me You Love Me tour, she usually sings a couple of songs atop a bed, which acts because the centerpiece of the stage. You could find a lot of fan-shot videos of those moments pretty conveniently to get an idea of what it looks like. Nevertheless the tour's final first-leg stop in Newark, New Jersey on Monday night (April 2) might be the..
Read MoreThe Chainsmokers have been heading in a decidedly moodier direction this year, as evidenced by “Sick Boy,” “You Owe Me,” and their latest single, “Everybody Hates Me.” In the latter track's new video, that dark side comes to life because the duo grapple with the sad truth that fame comes at a cost — and haters are almost routinely segment of the price. The clip finds Al..
Read MoreThese days, it’s almost impossible to be able to see Taylor Swift live somewhere other than a packed stadium or a special industry function, which is why her schedule this past weekend was particularly shocking. As recounted by The Tennessean, Swift made a surprise appearance at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe, where she joined prolific nation songwriter Craig Wiseman onstage to sing so..
Read MoreA new Tinashe music video is here, and it’ll have you asking, “Venus and Serena who??” The R&B princess becomes a fashionable tennis queen in the color-saturated video for “Me So Bad,” serving looks while serving on the court. In one scene, she’s posing in a cheeky plaid skirt and platinum braids, and in another, she’s rocking a soft velour tracksuit while cooing, “Yo..
Read MoreLorde’s magical Melodrama tour is the gift that keeps on giving. Over the course of her North American run, she’s been honoring local legends as she passes through different cities. In Minneapolis, as an example, she sang Prince’s “I Would Perish 4 U,” and earlier this week in Chicago, she took on Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” and “Runaway.” On top of that, she’..
Read Moreseveral weeks back, Taylor Swift unveiled the thoroughly adorkable "Delicate" music video, wherein she unburdened herself to once again appreciate the carefree spirit of being the Old Taylor. It's 2018, though, which means we shouldn't have to settle for one definitive music video per song. Swift is aware this — she just dropped a second "Delicate" video at midnight on Friday (Marc..
Read MoreWith his third album on the way, Shawn Mendes has some things to get off his chest. We’ve already heard him tackle topics of anxiety and friskiness — on “In My Blood” and “Lost in Japan,” respectively — and apparently there’s at least one more topic he's getting stoked to sing about. The 19-year-old appears on the most recent episode of “Hot Ones,” a cruel-but-hil..
Read MoreEver since CHVRCHES rumbled back inside our consciousness with the stadium-sized "Get Out" and the cold, broody "My Enemy," everything has pointed to a 2018 full of massive moments for the Scottish trio. Besides some fantastic singles, they've been relatively chill in the lead-up to their third album, Love Is Dead, which drops on May 25. However on Thursday (March 29), CHVRCHES share..
Read MoreBack in January, Mike Shinoda — one of the two key voices beyond Linkin Park — shared three songs from an EP called Post Traumatic he'd written right following the death of his bandmate Chester Bennington. They were (and remain) gripping explorations of grief, and so they arrived with three stark, personalized, and DIY-shot videos that show Shinoda wearing his struggle on his face..
Read MoreLast fall, at his MTV Unplugged show, Shawn Mendes covered Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" in an extended intro to his own track "Treat You Better." The choice was very intentional: "It's where I want people to be able to see me as a performer and as a singer and as an artist going," Mendes told MTV News at the time. He made good on that bit of data, as his new single "In My Blood" pr..
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