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The U.S. Snowboard Team have released a video that explores the boundaries of logic featuring Run the Jewels, Tim Robinson, and Shaquille O’Neal announcing Volcom as its official apparel partner through the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games. Watch the deeply absurd video below. The video—scripted by comedian and musician Emily Panic—features El-P and Killer Mike
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An Eminem song featuring lyrics about Chris Brown’s 2009 assault of Rihanna has leaked, XXL reports. In the leak, Eminem raps, “I’m not playing, Rihanna, where’d you get the V.D. at?” and also, “Let me add my two cents/Of course I side with Chris Brown/I’d beat a bitch down, too if she gave my dick an itch now.”
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Chicago rapper Lil Reese is in critical condition after being shot, ABC 7 Chicago reports. The shooting allegedly took place around 2:30 p.m. Central, in Country Club Hills—a suburb south of Chicago. Hospital officials identified the shooting victim as Reese (real name Tavares Taylor), telling ABC 7 that the rapper is in critical condition. Pitchfork
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Sizzling and loaded with a classic rock intensity in one track, supple and smooth with a taste of cosmopolitan pop chic in another, the strings that drive a lot of the best melodies in Jeremy Rice and the Legendary Fist of Takinawa are more than just a key element in Jeremy Rice’s debut album – they’re
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Action Bronson has announced a new EP called Lamb Over Rice. The seven-song project is produced by Alchemist, and follows Bronson’s 2018 album White Bronco. Bronson tweeted the news earlier today (November 10), stating that the EP will drop November 22. Find Bronson and Alchemist’s tweets below. Prior to releasing White Bronco last November, Action
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Billie Eilish has taken to Twitter to announce the release of her next single. “everything i wanted” is slated to drop at 4:00 p.m. PST on Wednesday, November 13. Find Eilish’s tweet below. “everything i wanted” will mark Eilish’s first new music since the release of her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where
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On Monday, November 4, The FADER announced that the publication had parted ways with Head of Content Eric Sundermann after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced on Twitter. In a report by Jezebel published yesterday, several women, including former coworkers of Sundermann’s at The FADER and Noisey, detailed those allegations, which included sexual harassment and coercion.
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The Raconteurs have announced Live in Tulsa, a new 3xLP live album that is coming to vinyl as the latest installment in Third Man Records’ Vault subscription series. The album was recorded during the band’s three-night run at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the tour behind their latest album Help Us Stranger. It features
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Lana Del Rey performed at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom last night, where she brought out Lucy Dacus (who opened the show) to perform the singer-songwriter’s “Night Shift” with her. Earlier in the set, she also brought out Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino. The pair sang “When I’m With You,” from 2010’s Crazy For You, before Lana gave
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Robert Freeman, the British photographer who shot some of the Beatles’ most iconic album covers, has died. He was 82 years old, as Deadline reports. Though the cause of death has not yet been revealed, the news of Freeman’s passing was announced via the Beatles’ official Twitter account earlier today (November 8). Freeman was born
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Decisions. Decisions. Just as The Clash asked, “Should I Stay Or Should I Go”, singer Malsi’s “Harder” asks out loud if leaving a relationship is the right way to go, and why is it so easy for some and harder for others? Why do some people always have to complicate things and others just keep
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Beyoncé, Rihanna, Meek Mill, Questlove, T.I., and several other artists have signed and shared a viral Change.org petition to prevent Texas inmate Rodney Reed’s execution. The 51-year-old Reed is scheduled for execution on November 20 for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites in Bastrop, Texas. New information that could potentially exonerate Reed, however, has arisen
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Róisín Murphy has released a new song. Listen to “Narcissus” below. The disco single sees her link back up with longtime collaborator Richard Barratt (aka Parrot and Crooked Man). Barratt also helmed production on her previous single “Incapable,” named Best New Track upon its release in June. Speaking on their collaboration in a press release,
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This September, Casey Ahern is back with a fresh set of string-driven melodies encapsulated within her new single “Just a Dance,” and though the aspiring country star hasn’t shied away from issuing some thoughtful, wholly forward-thinking balladry in the past, personally I found this latest track to be one of her sharpest recordings yet. “Just
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The annual Songwriters Hall of Fame nominees have been released. Artists and songwriters that have been nominated for induction in 2020 include Outkast, the Neptunes, Eurythmics, R.E.M., Patti Smith, the Isley Brothers, Vince Gill, Journey, Beach Boys’ Mike Love, and more. Elsewhere among the nominees are Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Steve Miller, Motown legend William
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Warp Records has released a 10-track sampler from its forthcoming 30th anniversary WXAXRXP Sessions box set. The collection features rare and unreleased songs from Aphex Twin, Bibio, Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus, Kelly Moran, LFO, Mount Kimbie, Oneohtrix Point Never, Plaid and Seefeel. The Aphex offering is “Slo Bird Whistle,” which he played during a
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French streaming platform Deezer has released an AI tool called Spleeter that can quickly isolate vocal and instrumental tracks and separate a song into two, four, or five separate audio tracks. The software was originally developed for research purposes, but was released on Monday, November 4, as an open-source package on GitHub. While many techniques
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Joe Pesci appears in the new Martin Scorsese film The Irishman, which comes to Netflix on November 27. More importantly, Joe Pesci has announced a new album called Pesci…Still Singing. The album arrives two days after the film’s release (on November 29), and it features Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. At the midpoint of the album,
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Strokes guitarist Fab Moretti—not to be confused with the Italian art dealer Fabrizio Moretti—has joined forces with the Italian art dealer Fabrizio Moretti (not to be confused with the Strokes guitarist) for a new art exhibition at Sotheby’s New York. The auction house will display In Passing from December 15 to 18, before auctioning the
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Since 2017, the creators of the cult classic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap have been in a legal battle against both Universal Music Group (who released the soundtrack) and the film’s copyright and distribution holders Vivendi and StudioCanal. Rob Reiner (the film’s director), Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, and Michael McKean claimed that profits from the film
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Chicago artist Noname has taken to Twitter to announce her next album. “I don’t really talk about my music much on here,” she wrote earlier tonight, “but I’m dropping an album 2020 if anybody’s interested.” Find her post below. https://twitter.com/noname/status/1191481496390922241 The as-yet untitled project will mark Noname’s follow-up to her 2018 LP Room 25, which
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Tonight at the 2019 MTV European Music Awards, Rosalía took the stage to perform her El Mal Querer songs “Di Mi Nombre” and “Pienso En Tu Mirá.” She was joined by a team of dancers—watch the spectacle below. [embedded content] Rosalía’s last studio LP El Mal Querer arrived in 2018. Since dropping that album, Rosalía
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