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Nigerian pop star Rema has announced his debut album. Rave & Roses is out March 25. The collection of music he calls Afrorave features contributions from 6lack, AJ Tracey, and Yseult, plus the previously released track “Soundgasm.” Listen to the new song from the album, “Calm Down,” below. “‘Calm Down’ is about the events that led me to finding love at the time,” Rema said in a statement. “It started at a party where I saw a girl who stood out from other girls so I felt like shooting my shot. We spoke and danced… but her friends didn’t let me get any closer which killed the vibe, but afterwards when they weren’t there, we stayed in touch and hit it off.” Revisit the Rising interview “Rema Is Leading the Next Generation of Nigerian Pop.” Content This content can also be viewed on ...

Friends and collaborators Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have come together once again for a new song: Swift is featured on a new version of Sheeran’s = song “The Joker and the Queen.” The track arrives with a music video that you can watch below; scroll down for the new “The Joker and the Queen” single artwork. Swift and Sheeran first collaborated on the 2012 Red song “Everything Has Changed.” The artists reconnected for Reputation’s “End Game.” And, last year, Sheeran was featured on two cuts from Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version): the re-recorded “Everything Has Changed” and “Run (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault).” Since releasing = in October 2021, Ed Sheeran has joined Fireboy DML for a new version of “Peru.” Earlier this week, Sheeran performed “The Joker and the Queen” and “Bad Habits” ...

Margo Price has a memoir on the way. It’s titled Maybe We’ll Make It, and it covers her early career as a singer-songwriter. It’s out October 4 via the University of Texas Press as part of the American Music series, which is co-edited by journalist and former Pitchfork editor Jessica Hopper along with Charles Hughes.  Price shared a statement about the project, which is her first book: I’m so excited to share with y’all that for the past five years, I’ve been working on writing a book. It has truly been a labor of love and I’m so thrilled that it will finally be released by the University of Texas Press. Maybe We’ll Make It takes place over the better part of a decade when I was struggling to make a career as a songwriter and an artist. It’s a love story about loyalty, loss, grief and...

Colin Stetson has shared a new piece of music, a preview of his forthcoming soundtrack to David Blue Garcia’s update of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It’s titled “Every Last One.” The rest of the score arrives on February 18 via Milan Records, with the film hitting Netflix the same day. Listen to “Every Last One” below. Stetson discussed his work on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in an interview with Variety, saying, “I knew it would be an opportunity to go as far as I wanted in searching for the musical score.” He said he used recordings of a saxophone and hog grunts for the film’s iconic villain, Leatherface. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre score is the latest entry in a large body of soundtrack work from Stetson, who issued three of them in 2020: one for Color Out of Space (More Music From the ...