'Never Let You Go': Hilary Duff & Matthew Koma Cover Third Eye Blind
This week has already been unpredictable in the best of ways (come through, Parasite), and also full of very oddly specific, early-to-mid '00s nostalgia that ought to have fellow millennials yearning to update their AIM away messages: Kelly Clarkson singing Avril Lavigne ballads. Mandy Moore…
'OMG': Oh My God, It's Carly Rae Jepsen & Gryffin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO3nxLD_iAQ Oh my God: Carly Rae Jepsen, born Carly Raemmaculate Jepselegend of the North, has already returned to us with something new, just a few months after the release of her last studio album, Dedicated. "OMG" - which, spoiler alert, is not a cover of the…
'The Archer': Taylor Swift Calls Out the Hypocrisy of Taylor Swift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KpKc3C9V3w Taylor Swift, indie underground punk singer-songwriter and hotly tipped One To Watch in 2019, has a new song out. It's called "The Archer," released on Tuesday (July 23), and it's the third song released thus far off of her forthcoming album, Lover - and…
'Downhill Lullaby': The Ghostly Return of Sky Ferreira
"The first song isn’t a pop song...because I really want to make a video for it (& I love it). I’m confident about all of the pop songs on my record so I decided to start with something different," Sky Ferreira wrote earlier in March. Consider yourselves warned. The fullest of disclosures: I've…
'Now That I Found You' & 'No Drug Like Me': Carly Rae Jepsen Provides Another Pop Fix
The year is 2019, and Carly Rae Jepsen, born Slayly Raemacculate Jepselegend Of The North, has returned to us on Wednesday (February 27) with not one, but two new Carly Rae Jams to inject directly into our veins and carry us through these most trying of times: "Now That I Found You" - sadly not a…
Vanessa Hudgens Is Back, And So Into Laying Right Now
Vanessa Anne Hudgens, formerly so into voguing, is so into laying right now. Following her triumphant Lip Sync For Her Life on the runway against a literal pork chop on RuPaul's Drag Race, the 29-year-old "Sneakernight" chanteuse is blessing the music scene with the almighty return of Baby V. This…
'Don't Lie To Me': Barbra Streisand Returns to Tell Trump Enough Is Enough
Rising indie singer-songwriter Barbra Streisand is quickly gaining buzz with her impassioned new single, "Don't Lie To Me." Judging by the sound of it, she's got potential. Who knows? Some might even say a star is born. Juuuuuust fucking with you. The Legend, The Icon, The Funny Girl herself -…
Cher Covered ABBA's 'One Of Us', And Now One (And/Or Many) Of Us Is Crying
"Feeling stupid, feeling small / Wishing she had never left at all..." Cher, creator and founder of Music, Burlesque and Emojis, already gave the LGBTQ community everything they wanted with "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)," swiftly followed by "SOS" - a one-two glittery punch of…
'Mariners Apartment Complex': The Cool & Confident Return of Our Man, Lana Del Rey
"You took my sadness out of context at the Mariners Apartment Complex. I ain't no candle in the wind..." A new Lana Del Rey era is upon us - and this time, she's going trance. Just kidding. But...also I lowkey wish. Following the release of 2017's Lust For Life, featuring the romantically…
'Missing U': Robyn Returns to Provide Us With a Familiar Feeling
Robyn's back. She never left completely, though. She's always sort of been here, collaborating with acts like Norwegian electro-pop gods Röyksopp, Neneh Cherry, Kindness and Mr. Tophat, creating experimental mini-bands (La Bagatelle Magique) and hitting the summer festival circuit to sweat it out…
"Lonely, But Not Alone": Walking the Road With Utada Hikaru
"I walk this lonely road, the only one that I have ever known..." It's somewhat of a coincidence that, one decade ago, Utada Hikaru sang those words in a cover of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," just a few years before announcing her extended hiatus away from the music scene. Hikki's…
There Is New Carly Rae Jepsen Music (In Japan, Where Art Is Still Appreciated)
There's reason to get even more E•MO•TIONal. Western society may be hurdling toward certain disaster (we accept the election season we think we deserve), but Asia still has their shit figured out — specifically Japan. Why? Because unlike our dumb asses, they actually love and respect Real Music.…