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James Bay has shared the video for his recent Julia Michaels-featuring single “Peer Pressure,” the English singer’s first new song of 2019. The video finds Bay and Michaels intimately performing the single onstage in an empty nightclub as the camera circles around the pair. The “Peer Pressure” video premiered on …

Lil Kim will drop a new album on May 17. The rapper announced via Twitter that her latest full-length, which will be her fifth LP and first in 14 years, is titled 9. The music video for the album’s single, “Go Awff,” is expected Friday. Lil Kim’s last album, The …

UPDATE: In a series of tweets, Sky Ferreira denied claims that “Downhill Lullaby” interpolates the Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” a song whose strings sample sparked a massive lawsuit. https://thisforall.net/skyferreira/status/1110936802376986625 https://thisforall.net/skyferreira/status/1110938670805192704 – Sky Ferreira has unveiled her brooding new song, “Downhill Lullaby,” marking her first original solo music since 2013. The …

The holograms of late rock icons Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly will share the stage on the upcoming “Rock ‘N’ Roll Dream Tour.” The trek — which features a live band and backing singers, along with remastered audio — will include concurrent North American and European legs.Tickets go on sale …

Offset and Travis Scott tore through a performance of their new collaboration, “Legacy” on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday. “Legacy” boasts a beat of gauzy synths that swirl around relentless trap drums, providing the perfect backdrop for Offset and Scott’s woozy, auto-tuned bars. In front of a wall of flashing …

Mavis Staples has announced details of We Get By, her new studio album produced by Ben Harper. Following her acclaimed 2017 collectionIf All I Was Was Black,the album marks the latest in a flurry of creativity from Staples, who will turn 80 this summer. We Get By is an album …

Last year, Logic and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt asked people from around the world to participate in a song through the collaborative community HITRECORD. The resulting track is “Do What You Love,” which features 21 people with different backgrounds and skill sets from around the world. At SXSW on Friday, Logic …

Better Oblivion Community Center brought some rock ‘n’ roll grit to their single “Sleepwalkin” on The Late Late Show, transforming the introspective indie folk tune into a raucous, guitar-driven number. The band’s two members, Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, were joined onstage by three backing musicians, who added to the …

Jenny Lewis has shared her new song “Wasted Youth,” the third single from the singer’s upcoming On the Line. Like the LP’s previous singles, Lewis taps into the classic Seventies singer-songwriter sound on “Wasted Youth,” a catchy rumination that echoes her own difficult childhood. “Why are you lying?/The bourbon’s gone/Mercury …

Perturbed Schoolboy Q is the best Schoolboy Q, and “Numb Numb Juice” is the TDE rapper at his most ornery. In under two minutes, Schoolboy lists a variety of things that are “bitch shit” over the Nez & Rio, DJ Fu and Hykeem Carter beat. Below is a condensed list …