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Halsey revealed that she would have been on tour while pregnant if not for the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday (January 29), the "You Should Be Continue Reading
Blue Canopy Announces EP & Shares “Motovun” Single & Video
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Selena Gomez Releases Spanish-Language Single ‘Baila Conmigo’: Lyrics + English Translation
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German indie rock band the Notwist have not released an album of new material since 2015. Although they have been around for more than 20 Continue Reading
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German indie rock band the Notwist have not released an album of new material since 2015. Although they have been around for more than 20 Continue Reading
The 10 Best Songs of The Band
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Between the Grooves: Green Day – 'American Idiot'
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The Interior Poetry in Bresson's 'Mouchette'
Mouchette (1967), one of French master Robert Bresson’s many essential films, begins and ends with conspicuous absences. The opening credits roll over an image of Continue Reading
Jazz? Soul? A Bit of Both and Lots of Good Vibes on 'I Told You So'
James Oscar Smith, popularly known as Jimmy Smith, died in 2005 and is buried just outside Philadelphia under a headstone that proclaims him to be Continue Reading
Eve Adams Releases Jazz-Folk Album “Metal Bird”
Singer-songwriter Eve Adams weaves dark folk-noir tales with her spellbinding jazz-folk like last year’s ‘Candy Colored Doom’ or her 2017 debut ‘In Hell’ which featured Continue Reading
Truths Overlap in Jenny Erpenbeck's Memoir of German Reunification, 'Not a Novel'
If you only have time to read one contemporary German writer, it ought to be Jenny Erpenbeck. The author of three novels and several short Continue Reading
Electropop's Douglas Creates a Stunning World on "Cigarettes"
Douglas is one Amy Douglas White, an American electropop artist raised in Spain who picked up the landscape’s bright vista and infused it into her Continue Reading
Between the Grooves: Green Day – 'Dookie'
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Evinha's 'Cartão Postal': Revisiting the 50-year-old Brazilian Pop-Funk Gem
In 2019, music fans around the world fell in love with Japanese citypop due to an algorithmic boost in a Youtube upload of Mariya Takeuchi’s Continue Reading
Armand Hammer Are at the Vanguard of Rap with 'Shrines'
Armand Hammer, a duo composed of rappers Billy Woods and Elucid, are at the vanguard of left-field rap music. In the last decade, they have Continue Reading