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German 'Playboy' Retracts Ennio Morricone Interview, Calling It A 'Farce'

5:05pm November 14, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

A back-and-forth between Playboy Germany and the famed Italian film composer over an interview the magazine published this week has ended in disgrace for the publication and its journalist.

Rosalia's latest album, El mal querer, mixes flamenco traditions with R&B, pop and electronic sounds.

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Flamenco Fusion: Rosalía Offers A Modern Take On Spanish Traditions

4:39pm November 14, 2018

by Lucia Benavides

The Spanish singer studied traditional cante flamenco in college and now mixes it with pop music influences in a way that's led some to call her the "Spanish Beyoncé."

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Living Hour's Softer Faces is due March 1, 2019.

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Living Hour's 'Bottom Step' Sweetly Soundtracks Your Crush's Rejection

1:00pm November 14, 2018

by Kristy Guilbault

Winnipeg's Living Hour softly but assertively navigates the feeling of rejection on the first single from Softer Faces, out March 1.

One of the highlights of World Cafe's recent Sense of Place: Edinburgh trip was being welcomed into the tiny basement studio of Young Fathers where the trio made the incredibly inspired record Cocoa Sugar.

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World Cafe: Young Fathers

12:43pm November 14, 2018

by Talia Schlanger

The award-winning Scottish three-piece share stories during World Cafe's Sense Of Place trip to Edinburgh.

This week's episode of The Thistle & Shamrock features music by William Jackson.

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The Thistle & Shamrock: Islanders

12:18pm November 14, 2018

Fiona Ritchie is your guide for an hour of music as fresh as a salt sea breeze.

Hozier's new single, from an album due out next year, is titled "Movement."

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Hozier Returns With The Grand 'Movement' — And Announces A New Album

12:00pm November 14, 2018

by Stephen Thompson

"Movement," from an as-yet-untitled set due out in 2019, leans hard into Hozier's gift for songs that soar with stormy, propulsive intensity.

Robert Ellis' Texas Piano Man comes out Feb. 14.

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Robert Ellis Proclaims Himself 'Texas Piano Man,' Shares Ode To Reckless Love

11:00am November 14, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

Robert Ellis has fully embraced his role as Texas troubadour, putting a little Gram Parsons-style honky-tonk into the bedazzled piano-pop of Elton John.

Héctor Buitrago and Andrea Echeverri of the band Aterciopelados in costume for the music video of the song, "Dúo."

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'Te Guste': Our Favorite Latin Songs This Week

10:06am November 14, 2018

Colombia's Aterciopelados dropped a music video in advance of the Latin Grammys, Bad Bunny unleashed yet another collab and both Mon Laferte and Anitta released new music.

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Mercury Rev Remakes A Country-Rock Opera With Margo Price, Norah Jones, More

10:00am November 14, 2018

by Jewly Hight

The psych-rock band's ambitious recreation of Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete features a cast of women vocalists gifted at pondering both interior and exterior worlds from a remove.

Aretha Franklin, pictured during a television appearance in January 1972, the same month in which the project Amazing Grace was recorded.

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Aretha Franklin Touches The Infinite In The Long-Delayed Film 'Amazing Grace'

6:00am November 14, 2018

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

It's been worth the long, long wait: Amazing Grace, made in January 1972, is an extraordinary document that depicts an artist at her technical, creative and spiritual heights.