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For readers, music offers both discovery and connection: a chance to find new voices, revisit familiar favourites and understand how artists build their work and careers. Disputes over samples, reunions and the changing business of entertainment show how creativity, money and cultural influence intersect.

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A Little Glam, a Little Chill: SharkNinja Takes On Billboard Latin Music Week

  • SharkNinja showcased beauty and cooling products at Latin Music Week.
  • Concert guests could try hair stylers and get frozen drinks.
  • Panel attendees received gift cards in their Insider totes.

SharkNinja brought its beauty and cooling products to Billboard Latin Music Week in Miami, presenting them as part of fans’ preparations for events and time in the heat. The partnership placed the brand across industry celebrations, daytime panels and a live concert, linking personal style and self-care with…

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In 1996, Van Halen appeared ready for a reunion. Backstage, Eddie was ready to fight David Lee Roth

  • The original Van Halen line-up reunited publicly at the 1996 MTV Awards.
  • Two new songs with David Lee Roth fuelled reunion hopes.
  • Eddie later said a backstage confrontation nearly became a fight.

Van Halen’s 1996 MTV Video Music Awards appearance reunited the original line-up in public for the first time since David Lee Roth’s 1985 departure. The band had recorded two songs with Roth for a compilation, prompting speculation about a full reunion, but tensions behind the scenes undermined that…

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Paulo Londra Breaks Down 5 Essential Tracks From New Album ‘entre CIELOS’

  • Paulo Londra has released his third album, *entre CIELOS*.
  • The record blends rap, trap, dance music, indie rock and bachata.
  • He says the album took a year, after about 40 songs were considered.

Argentine rapper Paulo Londra has released his third studio album, *entre CIELOS*, nearly four years after *Back To The Game*. He says he approached this project more patiently and collaboratively, allowing new sounds to shape an album that moves between rap, trap, dance music, indie rock and bachata.…

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In 1990, Robin Williams landed his favourite role of his career. It changed his view on human behaviour

  • Williams named *Awakenings* his favourite role.
  • He played a character based on neurologist Oliver Sacks.
  • The film sparked a lasting interest in human behaviour.

Robin Williams said his favourite role was Dr Malcolm Sayers in Penny Marshall’s 1990 film *Awakenings*, a choice that surprised fans who expected one of his better-known comic or dramatic performances. The role mattered to him because it deepened his interest in human behaviour and the workings of…

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The Flaming Lips Reveal a Album The Teardrop Throbs

  • The Flaming Lips return with their first album in seven years.
  • *The Teardrop Throbs* arrives on 22 January.
  • The 13 tracks include a sequel to “Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell”.

The Flaming Lips have announced *The Teardrop Throbs*, their first new album in seven years, due on 22 January. It is their debut for Third Man Records and marks a change in the band’s line-up, as multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd is no longer a member. The 13-track album includes…

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What if The Cars’ 1979 hit ‘Good Times Roll’ was never supposed to make you feel good?

  • The Cars’ catchy hit was intended as satire.
  • Ocasek’s lyrics challenge rock’n’roll’s promise of glamour.
  • Roy Thomas Baker’s harmonies helped give the song its glossy sound.

The Cars’ 1979 single ‘Good Times Roll’ sounds like a celebration, but Ric Ocasek intended it as a parody of rock’n’roll’s supposed good times. Its catchy, polished sound helped obscure lyrics that point to the humiliation and illusion beneath the glamour of youth culture. Ocasek described the song’s…

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In 1969, a Leonard Cohen song barely made the charts. Robert Plant couldn’t imagine writing anything as good

  • Plant admired Leonard Cohen’s ability to express delicate feelings.
  • “Bird on the Wire” made Plant doubt he could match Cohen’s writing.
  • Plant’s music drew on folk, blues and other songwriters.

Robert Plant has said that hearing Leonard Cohen’s lyrics made him question whether he could write at the same level. Cohen’s precise, emotionally subtle songwriting impressed Plant, despite Plant’s own reputation for powerful performances and memorable lyrics with Led Zeppelin. The article focuses on Cohen’s song “Bird on…

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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Earns Its First Hot 100 Hit With This ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Song

  • King Gizzard reaches the Hot 100 for the first time.
  • “Flower in a Hurricane” debuts at No. 62.
  • The track features on the Grand Theft Auto VI soundtrack.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has earned its first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 as a guest on Justice’s “Flower in a Hurricane”, which also features Tame Impala and SZA. The track debuted at No. 62, and is part of the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto…

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Billboard’s R&B Up-And-Comer Joyce Wrice Learns to Get Out of Her Own Way on ‘MACHIKO’: ‘You Don’t Have to Be in the Trenches All the Time’

  • Wrice’s time away helped shape her second album.
  • She wrote more than 100 songs for *MACHIKO*.
  • The album reflects greater confidence and self-understanding.

Joyce Wrice says the three-and-a-half-year gap since her debut album was a period of reflection and personal growth, rather than simply time away from music. That process shaped her forthcoming second album, *MACHIKO*, as she worked out what she wanted to express and became more comfortable with who…

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The Eagles left Don Felder’s song unfinished, but he turned it into a piece of cult history: “I still have the reel myself”

  • The Eagles recorded a basic track for Felder’s “Heavy Metal”.
  • Henley did not complete the lyrics, so Felder finished it himself.
  • Felder says he still has the original reel.

Don Felder’s “Heavy Metal” began as a track the Eagles recorded during work on *The Long Run*, but it stalled when Don Henley did not finish the lyrics in time. Felder later completed and rerecorded it himself, turning a shelved idea into a song released in 1984 and…

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