The Weeknd and his new mustache announced Thursday that their new album is titled After Hours.And let he who has not had a bad bout of facial hair cast the first stone. Admittedly, my entire life is a monument to weird facial-hair choices, but nonetheless one has to admit the …
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Welcome to ‘Will I Get Fired For This?,’ an occasionally recurring column in which staff writer Charles Holmes — whose duties include but are not limited to watching and writing about music videos — watches a new music video that he fears will get him fired. Read the previous entry …
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As the lead singer of L.T.D. in the second half of the Seventies and then a solo act with more than a dozen R&B hits, Jeffrey Osborne has enjoyed his fair share of commercial glory. But pop music tends to reward youth, so like many older singers — Osborne is …
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It’s not every day you find a Japanese singer getting traction on what’s known as “Adult R&B” radio — a catch-all format where artists with interest in pre-Drake R&B can still find a commercial audience. But here comes Nao Yoshioka, who was born in Osaka, climbing the chart with “I …
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