In exactly a month’s time, Eels are releasing a new album called EELS TIME! We’ve heard two tracks from it so far — “Time” and “Goldy” — and today Mark Oliver Everett has another one out there, “If I’m Gonna Go Anywhere.” It’s ...

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It’s easy to make jokes about Macklemore, the white rapper from Seattle who blew up and scored a couple of #1 hits a decade ago. But whatever you think of his hits — or even his politics — Macklemore has shown himself to be the type of artist who can make actual political statements. As an independent artist, he&...

Last month, Taylor Swift released her latest album The Tortured Poets Department, which contained a lot of namechecks. Patti Smith, The Starting Line, and American Pie’s Alyson Hannigan reacted to their references, and now so has Charlie Puth.

In 1964, the great New Orleans R&B singer Irma Thomas released her version of “Time Is On My Side,” a song that Danish-American jazz trombonist Kal Winding and his orchestra first released a year earlier. (The singers on that first recording were Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick and their cousin Cissy Houston, Whitney&...