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"While writing each song I was rebuilding myself," the singer shared about the record, out March 22 Shakira is crying diamonds on the cover of her newly-announced album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran. Out March 22, the record marks her first full-length studio release in seven years and encapsulates the transformations she’s undergone in the time since. “Making this body of work has been an alchemical process. While writing each song I was rebuilding myself,” Shakira shared in a statement. “While…

The actress and musician's third album, Chaos Angel, will arrive on May 31 Maya Hawke knows everything and nothing at all on her latest single, “Missing Out,” set to appear on her newly-announced album Chaos Angel, out May 31. The song arrives alongside a music video directed by Alex Ross Perry, in which the singer-songwriter’s face is superimposed on the faces of characters in old film and TV clips. The video is reflective of the slight identity crisis Hawke experiences throughout the song.…

Meet Slut Pop‘s new sibling: Slut Pop Miami. On Valentine’s Day, Kim Petras released the follow-up EP to her 2022 Slut Pop, with equally-slutty and even-sexier songs from the original project. The project — which a press release said was “inspired by hedonistic trips to Miami” — encompasses 12 tracks including the aptly named “Slut Pop Reprise,” “Banana Boat,” and “Head Head Honcho.” Petras teased the EP last week with a video of herself on the beach, where she removes a pink top to show her in a…

Jessica Pratt returns this spring from a five-year hiatus with Here in the Pitch, the singer-songwriter’s first album since her acclaimed 2019 LP Quiet Signs. Ahead of the album’s May 3 release via Mexican Summer, Pratt has shared the first single and opening track, “Life Is,” inspired by the orchestral Sixties songs by bands like the Walker Brothers, although not indicative of the rest of the music found on Here in the Pitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJUyDi3CNHE “In a way, itʼs kind of a false…

Venus is the goddess of love, beauty, and victory — and on Friday, ‘s stans’ prayers were answered as she dropped her new album, Venus. To celebrate the release of the 12-track LP, the Swedish pop star shared the music video for “You Know Who You Love,” one of the album’s singles. “It’s a little bit all over the place, but that’s honestly just very me!” she said in a press release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNYVArkExQ In the video for “You Know Who You Love,” the singer plays a pawn shop…

Tori Kelly will embrace self-reflection on her fifth album. On Friday, the pop-R&B singer released the introspective single “High Water,” as she announced her fifth album, TORI. It’s her first album under her record deal with Epic, and it’s out April 5. The new song was written after she faced a health emergency as she was releasing her EP Tori (Yes, similar name to the album) in July last year. “My hope is that will uplift others in whatever they might be going through and encourage them to keep going,”…

Kacey Musgraves is entering a new era of music — and she tapped the “great ghosts” of Electric Lady for it. On Thursday, the country singer announced that she’ll release her fifth LP, Deeper Well, on March 15 via Interscope and MCA Nashville. Musgraves co-produced the record with Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk from Electric Lady Studios in New York City. “I was seeking some different environmental energy, and Electric Lady has the best mojo,” Musgraves said in a press release about recording the music at…

Maggie Rogers craves simple pleasures and eternal life through memories on her latest single, “Don’t Forget Me,” the first release from her forthcoming third studio album, Don’t Forget Me, out April 12. “The song is a rough journal entry about going to a bunch of friends’ weddings and feeling so happy for them, but also realizing that I’m very simply in a different place in my life,” Rogers shared in a statement. “I’ve joked with my friends that it’s a song about having low expectations, but really I think it’s…

Thirty years after the release of Portishead’s first album, lead singer Beth Gibbons has announced the impending arrival of her own solo debut LP, Lives Outgrown. Ahead of the album’s May 17 release via Domino, Gibbons has shared the first single “Floating on a Moment,” which was accompanied by a video directed by multimedia artist Tony Oursler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldrx0eSqV-E Lives Outgrown is the culmination of a decade’s worth of songwriting for Gibbons, with the singer ruminating on…

"It's all different heightened pieces of the same story of the same experience," she says in the clip Ariana Grande‘s album Eternal Sunshine came together rather quickly. Grande shared a video of herself tearing up as she described the project as a “concept album” to her Republic Records team last year. “Things are just pouring out and happening very quickly as they often do. You know how I am and you know how these things go,” she said in the clip. “We’re gonna do proper vocals and…