Alabama Shakes singer Brittany Howard is gearing up for the release of her first solo album this fall, however she's not totally alone — Terry Crews is along for the ride. On Tuesday (July 16), Howard dropped the inspiring video for "Stay High," which stars Crews as a factory worker making his way residence soon after a long day on the job. As he makes a couple pit helps prevent ar..

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"Time of Our Life" is the sort of song that makes you hope to dance. Or sprint a mile. Or perhaps both. It is, soon considering that, a DAY6 track — raw emotion and piercing harmonies poured over electric guitar riffs, piano melodies, dynamic chords, and an anthemic pop-rock chorus. However the Korean rock band's latest single, their first in seven months, is all of that and somehow..

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By Caitlin Wolper "It's fucking Broadway!" Regina Spektor shouted gleefully, disbelievingly, on the final night of her five-show run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater last week. Centerstage at the piano, Spektor didn’t look much different than if she was playing an average concert. Although this particular show was anything however average. Spektor's Broadway residency, which ran in la..

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By Michael Tedder Punk is an elastic concept, spanning poppy odes to crushes, furious screeds against oppression, and every experimental rumination in between. The paradox of punk is that, within reason, some days doing the least punk thing is the most punk move of all. So any time you're the Philadelphia punk sort Mannequin Pussy, and you've made your name with brash anthems like "..

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By Michael Tedder Whether we’re an adult with a full-time career, a busy student, or a buzzed-about indie pop artist, we can all get in a rut. Read an opinions columnist or listen to a life coach and they’ll recommend a collection of ways to get unstuck, from journaling to diet changes to simply going on a walk. Yet for Harriette Pilbeam, the songwriter beyond ascendent dream mac..

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Since being unveiled as one of Charli XCX's preference new groups (and collaborators) earlier this year, Nasty Cherry have gained plaudits for their spunky, victorious debut anthem "Win." It's a good one, and it's conveniently replayable, nevertheless for now, it's been the only one to their name. Up until now. On Tuesday (May 28), the hybrid British-American musical group — compri..

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a gentleman near the bar has shouted, "Let me purchase you a drink!" At the musical group onstage. If you've been to shows at smaller venues, you've heard that rowdy nevertheless enthusiastic tone before. The singer, 28-year-old bearded and ball-capped Adrian Amador, smiles and replies that he's driving later, however maybe one of the other three guitarists in his musical group, Fire ..

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Twenty-five years prior, the Minneapolis metal band Soul Asylum released a socially conscious video for its 1993 hit "Runaway Train" that doubled as activism. In showing images of real missing children, the clip, which procured typical rotation on MTV, facilitated in the location 21 of these. Just imagine what would happen if a similar concept was executed in the time of social media...

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Alex Lahey is very relatable. You might have heard. After the 2016 release of her “highly likeable” breakthrough track, “You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me,” the burgeoning Australian pop-punk artist not only won a substantial songwriting grant — “Her turn of phrase was quirky and intelligent, and really relatable,” said the prize’s namesake, Josh Pyke — howev..

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By Emma Madden The joy that left somewhere between your fifth birthday party and puberty never escaped Charly Bliss’s Eva Hendricks. A super extrovert or “total hambone,” as she describes herself, Hendricks is exactly the person you picture any time while you listen to Charly Bliss’s strain of invigorating, hot-blooded power pop. Place on Earth into an encouraging family memb..

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Mac DeMarco's new album, Here Comes the Cowboy, is out this Friday (May 10), and it also finds him continuing to mellow our from the rubbery, weed-fueled jams that defined his early releases. Here, he's quieter and more contemplative, as we heard on 2017's This Old Dog. One of the most delicate, prettiest entries comes by way of the a sparse, nocturnal number called "Heart to Heart." ..

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These days, artists who book session time at Los Angeles's Barefoot Recording have a sprawling, completely loaded, three-studio musical playground at their disposal. Vintage tools — including a nine-foot Yamaha grand piano used by Stevie Wonder — lines the walls. Soon after producer Eric Valentine took ownership of the facility in 2000, it became the recording nexus for a couple ..

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