The Number Ones: Madonna’s “This Used To Be My Playground”

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

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Meat Loaf Dead At 74

Meat Loaf, the singer and actor who rose to fame with an ultra-theatrical Broadway-infused take on rock ‘n’ roll, has died at the age of 74. His death was confirmed in a statement from his family in the early hours of this morning:

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Foo Fighters – “Fraggle Rock Rock”

This weekend, Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock is getting a full-series revival on Apple TV+. Titled Back To The Rock, the reboot follows the success of the Zoom-shot Fraggle Rock: Rock On! shorts, which aired on Apple TV+ in April 2020. In celebration, Foo Fighters have dropped a ridiculously fun single from the series called “Fraggle Rock Rock.”

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Lana Del Rey – “watercolor eyes”

Lana Del Rey only just released Blue Banisters, but she’s kept pretty busy since then. In addition to covering Father John Misty, last week LDR previewed a brand-new song called “watercolor eyes” in a trailer for HBO’s Euphoria, suggesting it would play on next Sunday’s episode. Now, the full “watercolor eyes,” produced by Drew Erickson and Nasri Atweh,...

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My Bloody Valentine Call Out Spotify For “Completely Incorrect And Insulting” Lyrics

Last year, My Bloody Valentine signed with Domino, announced a reissue campaign, revealed they were working on two new albums, and added their full catalog to streaming platforms. “Our original plan was we would record both the albums back-to-back and then go tour on that. And that would have been this year, you know, but everything really did slow...

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Tearful Adele Postpones Las Vegas Residency

Adele has posted a tearful video to social media announcing that her upcoming Las Vegas residency would have to be postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19-related production delays. Adele’s residency was meant to begin tomorrow (Friday) at the Colosseum of Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace Hotel. “All dates will be rescheduled, more info coming soon,” she wrote.

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Stream Rich Brian’s Surprise New EP Brightside

Indonesian 88rising rapper Rich Brian has dropped a new surprise EP called Brightside. “While doing melodies are fun, I wanted to remind people that I still love to rap,” he says in a statement. “It’s short, i’’s not an album, but I see it like a mental note of how the past year has accelerated my growing-up process as an artist and a person.” Stream...

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ALTO ARC – “Bordello”

ALTO ARC are a new supergroup that consists of hyperpop producer Danny L Harle, Hundred Waters’ Trayer Tryon, Deafheaven singer George Clarke, and makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench. That’s a pretty eclectic and exciting group of people, and today they’re announcing their self-titled debut EP, out next month on the great heavy music label Sargent House.

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If You Want To Read This Interview With Spin Doctors’ Chris Barron, Just Go Ahead Now

“I was sort of scared shitless,” Chris Barron says, “because I’m making a new record, and I made a choice that I was gonna basically do material from the new record. “I played ‘Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,’ ‘Jimmy Olsen’s Blues’ and ‘Two Princes.’ And then the rest of it is all this new stuff that I have either never played in front of people or barely...

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Ozzy Osbourne Bit The Head Off A Bat 40 Years Ago Today So Now It’s An NFT

Forty years ago today, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat during a show in Des Moines on his Diary Of A Madman tour. As the story goes, a teenager apparently smuggled a dead bat into Osbourne’s show on January 20, 1982 and threw it on stage. Osbourne then proceeded to take a bite from its neck. Per The Des Moines Register, Osbourne later said that...

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