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The Christmas Creep is starting to spread like a rash —and its symptoms are already showing up on the Rolling Stone charts. Even though we’re still more than a month out from Santa’s annual mass B&E, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is already among the Top 100 Songs, coming in at Number 62 for the week of November 1st through November 8th. Listening to Christmas music before December is like living an eternal weekend: ...
“We’re the Highwomen, sing a story still untold,” sang Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Amanda Shires and Natalie Hemby at their first-ever performance as the Highwomen Friday evening at the Newport Folk Festival. The supergroup was also backed by a band that included Jason Isbell and the Hanseroth Twins during the hourlong set. “This is our first show y’all, and we’re fucking terrified,” Carlile told the crowd early on. But the band’s debut ...
Madonna has unveiled her new video for “Dark Ballet.” It’s the fifth and final preview that will be released from her forthcoming Madame X, due June 14th. The cinematic clip stars Mykki Blanco, who portrays Joan of Arc. In the visually arresting Emmanuel Adjei-directed video, Mykki Blanco is seen bravely facing adversity from ...
Everyone’s a musician nowadays — and every tech company is also a music company, it seems. This week alone, two separate news items hinted at where strong winds are blowing for the music industry: first, a paid streaming service created by the owner of TikTok, and second, a new feature within Snapchat that may offer music in users’ posts. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that ByteDate, the Chinese parent company of the video-app-slash-meme-wonderland ...
In a new video, Julia Jacklin performs a stunning, stripped-down version of “Comfort” alone in her dressing room. The tenth and final track from her new album Crushing, the clip was captured last fall while Jacklin was on tour with First Aid Kit. more...