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After a 20-year-long hiatus, Unwound played the first official show of their reunion tour last night (February 3) at the Showbox in Seattle, Washington.The setlist spanned 18 songs in total, including material from their albums Leaves Turn Inside You, , New Plastic Ideas, and Repetition, among others.

The 2023 Grammy Awards take place on Sunday, February 5th.Beyoncé leads all of this year's contenders with a total of nine Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year.Already the most decorated female artist of all time, Queen Bey could become the most awarded Grammy winner in history if she wins four awards this evening.

Imperious and controlled, Marie-Pierra Kakoma the Belgian artist who performs as Lous and the Yakuza is singing about la money to a rapt crowd.From her latest album, last year's Iota, the track reflects on what happens when plus de money sours a relationship.Although peppered with English, the lyrics to Kakoma's banging R&B songs are mostly in French.

The singer and songwriter Hayley Williams was born in Mississippi in 1988.She signed her first music deal aged 14, shortly after moving to Tennessee, and went on to form the pop-punk band Paramore.The band have released five albums with Williams as lead vocalist and keyboard player, beginning in 2005 with All We Know Is Falling.

Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, failed in his bid to represent Ireland.He lost out to the band Wild Youth with their song "We Are One." Seventies punk rock icon John Lydon, better known to Sex Pistols fans as Johnny Rotten, lost out in his effort to represent Ireland at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool.

After two years of pandemic-related disruptions, the 65th annual Grammy Awards are returning on Sunday to their longtime home at the Crypto.comArena (formerly the Staples Center) in Los Angeles.The night's big story is Beyonce.With 28 Grammy wins to her name, the star could become the most decorated Grammy artist ever.

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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.After more than fifty years in music, Bonnie Raitt is far from resting on her laurels; her latest album, "Just Like That . ..," is nominated for four Grammy Awards this year, including Song of the Year-a category in which her competition includes Beyoncé and Adele, stars a generation younger.

Country pop queen Shania Twain has returned with a new album and world tour, a celebration she conceived after a harrowing battle with COVID-19.The singer of classics like "Still the One" and "Man!I Feel Like a Woman" has long had severe asthma, a condition heightened when she contracted coronavirus amid the pandemic.

The Bandcamp Fridays of 2023 are looking selective; there are only nine of them: Feb 3rd, March 3, April 7, May 5, Aug 4, Sept 1, Oct 6, Nov 3, and Dec 1.And while Bandcamp HQ is always pretty quick to point out that the celebrated day-where the audio platform waives its revenue share so more money goes to the musicians-only adds a little more scrill to your favorite artists' bank statements, Bandcamp Friday is still an occasion.

Shemekia Copeland is used to singing about "controversial topics.""For my entire career, I've tackled issues like social injustice, religious hypocrites and domestic violence," Copeland, a now 5-time Grammy nominated blues artist, tells TODAY.com.Things shifted, however, when Copeland gave birth to her now 6-year-old son.

Two Latin pop songwriters who thrive on breakup drama Karol G, from Colombia, and Romeo Santos, a stadium-scale headliner from the Bronx with Dominican and Puerto Rican roots arrange a last tryst in X Si Volvemos.Karol G points out No funcionamos We don't work and We're a disaster in love, but she admits, In bed we understand each other.