Troye Sivan nurses a (literally) heart-wrenching crush on a beach bartender in the vibrant “Lucky Strike” video. This past Sunday, Sivan was up for Best Original Song at the Golden Globes for his Boy Erased soundtrack contribution “Revelation.” Emma Westenberg, who helmed Janelle Monáe’s “Pynk” video, directed the vivid, beach-set “Lucky …
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Halsey has tapped rising rapper Juice WRLD to add a new verse to her hit single, “Without Me.” The track finds Juice WRLD slotting himself easily into the gauzy, somber grove of “Without Me.” He matches Halsey’s potent lyrics about a brutal break-up with an anguished verse of his own …
Read More »Travis Denning Showcases New Song 'After a Few' on 'My Opry Debut'
Rising country artist Travis Denning’s first experience onstage came when he was 14, playing guitar with the Marshall Tucker Band on their enduring 1973 song “Can’t You See.” “That’s when things shifted into, ‘I just want to get better,” says Denning in the latest episode of the My Opry Debut …
Read More »Streaming Was Heavily Concentrated (Again) in 2018
The 2017 year-end report published by the data company BuzzAngle, which tracks music consumption, contained a disturbing statistic tucked away in the report: The most popular 10 percent of songs accounted for 99 percent of all audio streams. While the lucky 10 percent of tracks still encompassed a lot of …
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