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The family of Chino XL has announced that the rapper died by suicide in July. “With the most profound sadness imaginable, we share the news that our beloved father decided to end his own life,” his family said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “It’s been the most painful and personal experience of our lives but

Beautifully Broken The Tennessee singer’s new album, Beautifully Broken, comes out next month. Country singer and rapper Jelly Roll debuted on Saturday Night Live with performances of “Liar” and “Winning Streak,” both from his forthcoming tenth studio album, Beautifully Broken, which is set for release Oct. 11. The Tennessee native is coming off of nominations

Country star will continue non-stop tour of NYC Saturday with performances at both the Global Citizen Festival and Saturday Night Live Jelly Roll’s very busy weekend in New York City kicked off Friday night with a concert at Madison Square Garden, where the singer was joined onstage by surprise guest Post Malone. [embedded content] The

The alleged arson of Kid Cudi’s car first described in singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s lawsuit against Sean Combs last year – and seemingly alluded to in the criminal indictment of Combs announced last week – has been corroborated by a Los Angeles City Fire Department report obtained by Rolling Stone. The newly unearthed report says

Jerry Douglas took the stage and stood proudly while being inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame during the 35th annual International Bluegrass Music Association awards show Thursday night in Raleigh. “You don’t get here alone,” the 68-year-old Dobro legend told the audience at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts. “I’ve covered

Cool Collab “It’s a song that’s meant for you to have the ultimate fun,” the singer said of the track, which pays homage to her hometown of Atlanta Ciara has released a new single, “Wassup,” featuring Busta Rhymes. The song, out via Ciara’s label Beauty Marks Entertainment, was written by Ciara, Busta Rhymes, and Courtlin

There’s a moment on Pour a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966-1971, a new box set, that pretty much captures everything wonderfully inane about one of pop’s most derided genres. Start with the beyond-silly name of the band, the Kasenkatz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus, which wasn’t even a real group.

Radiohead is collaborating on a new stage production of Hamlet, set to premiere next spring in Manchester, England. The play, Hamlet Hail to the Thief, is being adapted and directed by Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett and will feature re-worked music from Radiohead’s 2003 LP, Hail to the Thief. The production will debut at Aviva

Scoop Update The “Be Faithful” rapper died after collapsing onstage at a concert in Connecticut last month Fatman Scoop, who collapsed during a Connecticut concert in August, died of heart disease, the state’s medical examiner’s office has revealed. Fatman Scoop, who se full name is Isaac Freeman III, also had hypertension and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease,

Lady Gaga has previewed a new song from her forthcoming LP, Harlequin, out Sept. 27. The album is a companion piece to her film Joker: Folie à Deux, a musical of sorts in which the singer plays Harley Quinn. Gaga shared a clip of the dramatic tune on Instagram along with a video shot in

This spring, aspiring “indie outlaw” singer Sarah Gross performed a Patsy Cline-ified cover of “Red Wine Supernova” at a gig in Long Island. “Rip Hank Williams he would have loved Chappell Roan,” she wrote when she uploaded the video to TikTok in April, with a caption that’d soon become prophetic: “The honkytonk-ification of Chappell Roan is

Christina Aguilera celebrated the 25th anniversary of her self-titled debut album at the Spotify Music Studios in Los Angeles this week and took the opportunity to collaborate with Sabrina Carpenter and Machine Gun Kelly. During the “Live Spotify Anniversaries” episode, Aguilera brought Carpenter out to perform her hit “What a Girl Wants,” with Carpenter opening

Morgan Wallen spent this weekend playing to more than 150,000 people over two shows at the Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. The gigs were about as close as the country star gets to a homecoming blowout — he grew up in Sneedville, about 90 minutes away — so he marked the occasion with a slew

Pearl Jam appeared on CBS Sunday Morning over the weekend to chat about their career and their recent LP, Dark Matter. The morning show also aired an exclusive live performance clip of “Even Flow,” shot at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, MT, on Aug. 22 as part of the band’s current Dark Matter world tour. [embedded

Three months after calling off his summer tour with Crazy Horse due to an unspecific illness in the band, Neil Young returned to the concert stage Saturday evening at Farm Aid in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was backed by his new group the Chrome Hearts, which features organist Spooner Oldham, guitarist Micah Nelson, and

Janet Jackson appeared to question the fact that Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is Black. In an interview with The Guardian, which was published on Saturday, the reporter asked the pop star “where she stands on the forthcoming election,” with America “on the verge of voting in its first female Black president,”

Hip-hop is ripe to be capitalized on, and GOP operatives are taking advantage while trying to take over swing states. Already, artists like Fivio Foreign, Kodak Black, and Sexyy Red have advocated for Donald Trump in various ways this election cycle (some with the help of Billy McFarland). Trump’s campaign is transparently pandering to Black

Following the summer release of her fifth studio album, 9 Sad Symphonies, Kate Nash is bringing her performance across North America for the first time since 2018. On Friday, the singer and songwriter announced that Shamir, Revenge Wife, Joh Chase, and Skating Polly will be joining her on the road. “When there’s tension in the world, there’s

The artist formerly known as Christine and the Queens is now officially going by Rahim Redcar and has shifted his sound somewhat for a disco-trance feel on his new single, “Deep Holes.” The song has a thumping, four-on-the-floor beat and propulsive synths that drive her as he sings, “My heart is so open wide, oh,

Kelsea Ballerini released “Two Things” on Friday, the most recent track from her upcoming album, Patterns, out Oct. 25. On the heartache ballad’s chorus, Ballerini sings: “Two things can be true/I’ll love and hate you/I’ll be your best and your worst day/I’ll be your blessing and curse, babe.” The artist hinted at the track and