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Not counting 2011's charming if forgettable* “Today Is Your Day” (an accompaniment to her OWN documentary series) and a dull cover of “Endless Love” featuring Lionel Ritchie, Shania Twain has not released a proper single in 12 years. But that all changes today, as the best-selling female country artist of all freaking…

Feist has released a second taste of her fifth solo album, and first record in almost six years, Pleasure (out April 28). Like the title track, which dropped in March, “Century” finds Feist’s voice caked in reverb, and accompanied predominantly by an aggressively strummed guitar. Dissonance gives way to a legit,…

Here’s another one attempting to launch Tinashe’s eternally delayed Joyride album. It is so delayed, in fact, that the singer-songwriter dropped an album (or mixtape or... whatever it is) called Nightride in November containing many tracks originally announced for Joyride. (To Rolling Stone, Tinashe described Nightride…

“Ed Sheeran has two new singles!” everyone in New York yelled at me as I walked to work yesterday, like some kind of reimagined La La Land in which the stakes are somehow even lower. (By the way, picture La La Land as being about Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift and the movie suddenly works.)

After almost two years, our rosy-cheeked pal Ed Sheeran has released a pair of new singles — his first two since “Photograph” in May 2015. “Shape Of You” and “Castle On the Hill” offer sonic glimpses of his forthcoming album, thus far unnamed (though, the dual release suggests to some that it will be called Divide). …

Hinge has officially switched from a balls-to-the-wall free hookup app model to a subscription-based service for the real relationship-seekers among us. Which means you’re gonna have to pay to escape the dark trenches of loneliness.

As the kind of person whose favorite Lady Gaga songs are “Speechless” and the Mutt Lange-produced, country-tinged power ballad “You and I,” it should be no surprise that “Million Reasons” is really doing it for me. The song, co-written by frequent collaborator Hillary Lindsey, is mournful and montage-ready, the story…

They say that hurt people hurt people, and so it follows that Lady Gaga’s tortured new single, “Perfect Illusion,” is torturous. Compressed within an inch of its life a la the brick waveforms of Born This Way, this lead single from her as-yet-untitled fifth album is a wall of shrill sounds. There’s the distorted wail…

Really cool woman and master prankster Britney Spears will release her ninth album later this month. It’s called Glory and is a collection of emotionally stirring tracks written by John Legend and Common—oh wait, no, it’s just more pop.