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Brooklyn-based singer and producer KeiyaA has shared a new video for “I! Gits! Weary!”—a track off her excellent 2020 debut album Forever, Ya Girl. Directed by Ryosuke Tanzawa, the video follows KeiyaA in parks and in train stations. It features the Jazzy Jumpers Family—a professional double dutch jumprope crew from Brooklyn. She ends the video
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Rina Sawayama appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (October 26). Making her U.S. television debut, she performed “XS,” the single from her debut album SAWAYAMA. Watch it happen below. Earlier this year, Sawayama opened up about being ineligible for the Mercury Prize and domestic categories of the BRIT Awards due to
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Viola Smith, the trailblazing drummer once heralded as the “fastest girl drummer in the world,” has died, The Washington Post reports. She was 107 years old. According to the Post, Smith died October 21 at her home in Costa Mesa, California. The cause of death was revealed to be complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Smith grew
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Adele hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time this weekend, returning to the show on October 24 for the first time since she performed in 2015. H.E.R. was the show’s musical guest, performing her new songs “Damage” and “Hold On.” Watch clips below. After an opening sketch recapping Thursday’s presidential debate, Adele began her
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s new album Letter to You is out tomorrow (October 23), and, in anticipation of the new album and accompanying film’s release, Springsteen sat down for an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Speaking with Colbert, Springsteen discussed the inspirations behind his new album. He also named
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Dolly Parton was a guest on tonight’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. During Parton’s interview where she discussed her new book Songteller and upcoming Christmas album, she spontaneously broke out into song. She sang the bluegrass standard “Bury Me Beneath the Willow,” and as she sang, Colbert began legitimately crying.  “So I
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Patti Smith appeared today on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast promoting the paperback edition of her 2019 book The Year of the Monkey, her relationships with Chelsea hotel denizens like William S. Burroughs and her “cowboy writer” Sam Shepherd, and the time Allen Ginsberg tried to pick her up because he thought she was “a very
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