Women in music

Tegan and Sara have released a new video for "Stop Desire," taken off of their latest album Love You To Death. The new sexually suggestive clip, directed by Allister Ann, features Tegan and Sara enduring mundane, everyday tasks and drenching them in sexual overtones, including standing on a busy street singing the song while people pass them by.

"We wanted to marry the high-energy and colorful vibe of "Stop Desire's" production with the longing sexual undertones of the song's lyrics," the duo explains in a Facebook post.

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Katy Perry just teamed up with Funny or Die and Rock the Vote to release a new video in which she's encouraging people to go to polls and vote, according to Huffington Post. In the comical video, Perry slides out of bed and goes to her local polling place with messy hair that appears to have multiple things stuck in it, such as a lollipop and gum.

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Kacey Musgraves announced she will be touring during the upcoming holiday season. The tour is to coincide with the release of her Christmas album, A Very Kacey Christmas. The Christmas album will be a blend of new material and traditional Christmas songs. A couple of Musgrave originals include "Christmas Makes Me Cry" and "A Willie Nice Christmas."

Musgraves' new Christmas album will be available in October. She begins the holiday tour November 26 in Windsor, Ontario and wraps up December 17 in Evansville, Indiana.

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Watch Amy Lee's Dreamy 'If You're a Star' Animated Video

Evanescence singer Amy Lee released a dreamy new video for "If You're a Star," a track from her just-released children's album Dream Too Much.

Playing off counting sheep, the animated video follows a wayward sheep's journey as it encounters dancing stars, elephant flies and other creatures of the night as the sheep looks to rejoin its pack. “The video is meant to illustrate that we’re never alone, that we’re not so different, all across the world,” Lee said of the video in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “All you have to do is look up to remember that we are all under the same very big sky, maybe even wishing on the same star.”



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Lady Gaga has unveiled a group of new songs from her upcoming album, Joanne. The tracks were played during a recent show as part of her tour of "dive bars." The singer, who recently revealed that she will be playing at the next Super Bowl halftime show, performed the songs at a show in Nashville. The tracks are called "Sinner's Prayer" and "A-Yo."

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JoJo's third studio album Mad Love is now available to stream online. The follow-up to 2006's The High Road features 11 tracks and collaborations with Wiz Khalifa, Remy Ma and Alessia Cara. "I feel anxious. I'm nervous, I'm excited, I'm thankful," JoJo told Rap-Up of releasing her new album. "Now that I'm back, I'm just never gonna stop."

"I feel anxious. I'm nervous, I'm excited, I'm thankful," JoJo told Rap-Up of releasing her new album.

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Alicia Keys, Chance the Rapper and ASAP Rocky all performed at KCA's Black Ball. Keys is a co-founding member of the event, which took place this year on Wednesday, October 19. Before the event took place she spoke on all the talent taking part in the special night: "We have an electric lineup of performers both legends and newcomers this year . . ."

Keys' new release HERE is set to drop on November 4.

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Courtney Love has opened up about the rivalry that existed between Nirvana and Pearl Jam, admitting that Pearl Jam pissed Nirvana off. "Chris Cornell, Mark Arm, Eddie Vedder, and Kurt [Cobain], there was a rivalry," Love told National Geographic.



"I listen to Lithium, which is like all of the '90s songs and a lot of them are actually about me, which is interesting," she said. "There's so many Smashing Pumpkins songs about me, there's a Bush song about me."

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Little Big Town announced during a special press conference on November 1 that "Better Man," the lead single off of their upcoming album, was written by Taylor Swift. The group explained that they did not want to reveal who had written the song before people had a chance to listen to it. "She sent us this song and it was one that was really special to her . . ."

Little Big Town also announced that they will be playing six nights at the Ryman Auditorium to help celebrate its 125th Anniversary. Their residency at the venue will begin on February 24, the same day that their new album The Breaker will be released.

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