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💎💎💎 “When I first started writing my songs, I would listen to her album Pieces of You before I went to bed,” Rodrigo says onstage On the final night of Olivia Rodrigo‘s Madison Square Garden takeover for the Guts world tour, she welcomed Jewel onstage for a dazzling duet of the singer-songwriter’s 1995 hit “You

The Newport Jazz Festival is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year with an impressive lineup. On Tuesday, the annual music festival announced the performers for this year’s iteration, which will include Kamasi Washington, André 3000, Laufey, Nile Rodgers & Chic, and Elvis Costello. This year’s festival is scheduled for Aug. 2 through Aug. 4 at

As J. Cole put a bow on this year’s Dreamville Festival, he worked an apology  heard-’round-hip-hop into the introduction to one of his biggest and most sentimental songs, “Love Yourz.” “The past two days have felt terrible,” he said, earnestly admitting he’s lost sleep over “7 Minute Drill,” his nuanced but ill-received jab back at

A few weeks back, Flint rapper BFB Packman dropped Forget Me Not, his first album in three years. Before the release, he heightened fan anticipation when he revealed a Drake collaboration on “Olympic Shit Talkin,” a song that also features a verse from the currently incarcerated Rio Da Yung OG. But just before Forget Me

The artist won three awards at this year’s ceremony for his hit single “Need a Favor” Jelly Roll returned to the CMT Music Awards at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on Sunday and took home three trophies, including Video of the Year, Male Video of the Year, and CMT Performance of the Year. The

On Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé mixes R&B, country, and some hard-hitting guitars, among many other elements, and as the artist herself is well aware, there used to be a name for that kind of American melange: rock & roll. She slyly acknowledges that fact with two Chuck Berry moments on the album, including a segment of

There are just 13 days left before the pop star’s new album arrives Taylor Swift is dropping her new album, The Tortured Poets Department on April 19, which is 13 days from now, and also incidentally a number, which carries a lot of significance for her. She detailed the reason the number has been a

Late-Night Jams British singer, who co-wrote “Ya Ya” on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, performs track from her own 2023 LP My Soft Machine Fresh off her co-write on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Arlo Parks appeared on Friday’s Tonight Show to perform her own “Devotion.” The Nineties rock-inspired track features on Parks’ most recent LP My Soft Machine,

Olivia Rodrigo has manifested her dream collaboration. Back in January, when speaking to Variety at the Governors Awards in Hollywood, the singer was asked who she would love to duet with. Putting it “out there in the universe,” Rodrigo replied, “I love Noah Kahan.” She added, “I think he’s so great and he’s very inspiring,” she

Dolly Parton honored Tom Petty with a gorgeous cover of his 1985 song, “Southern Accents,” which will appear on the upcoming tribute compilation Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty. Petty’s original “Southern Accents” is a classic Heartbreakers jam, full of restless, ragged rock and roll energy, which gives a defiant edge to

Scarlet 2: Claude references the antagonist in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the artist previously revealed Doja Cat unleashed Scarlet 2 Claude on Friday, the deluxe offering of her fourth studio album that arrived back in September. Titled after the antagonist in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the expanded version features seven new songs, including “Masc” featuring

Not So Greedy “I turned the year’s biggest bop into a sad sad slow jam,” Rogers wrote on Instagram BBC Radio One’s Live Lounge often brings out the best of the biggest stars, capturing them as they reimagine songs by other artists, but in their distinct style. On Monday, Maggie Rogers stopped by the Live

The sentencing date for Iced Earth guitarist and Oath Keepers member Jon Schaffer, who was the first person to plead guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been pushed back to August. U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta on Monday, moved the date from July 19 to Aug. 2, according to

On their latest album, American Primitive, the Old 97’s have sandwiched songs about assessing their life choices and serial monogamy with reminders that the world is a doomed and hopeless place and that if you’ve found even a modicum of joy, then that day is a triumph. On the first track, “Falling Down,” they try

Michelle Obama is part of the BeyHive, too. On Tuesday, the former First Lady shared a tweet thread celebrating Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter, describing the musician as a “history-maker” who has “changed the game once again.” She also encouraged listeners to register to vote, quoting a line on “Ya Ya.” “With Cowboy Carter, you have changed

The channel dedicated to the singer broadcasts from April 7 to May 6 Taylor Swift is getting her very own channel on SiriusXM. Named, naturally, Channel 13 (Taylor’s Version), it will broadcast beginning April 7, which is exactly 13 days before she releases her new album, The Tortured Poets Department. SiriusXM subscribers in North America

As Beyoncé continues to smash barriers and reinvent American music with Cowboy Carter, the singer thanked those who paved the way by defying “any label placed upon them.” When accepting the the Innovator Award by Stevie Wonder at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday night, Beyoncé addressed the crowd. “Tonight you called me an

Hail the Queen From hits that owned the radio to empowerment anthems that stopped the world, and much more For at least the past decade, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter has been the world’s greatest living entertainer. Who else can annihilate complex dance routines and maintain pristinely powerhouse vocals for packed stadiums the way she does? Who

Amid all the acclaim for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, there is a growing controversy among fans as the album is missing some key tracks in its compact disc and vinyl form. Fans who preordered physical copies Cowboy Carter are turning to social media and message boards like Reddit to complain that their albums are missing five

Rapper also appears in Please Don’t Destroy sketch in second stint as SNL musical guest Houston rapper Travis Scott returned to Saturday Night Live as musical guest with a pair of tracks from Utopia, his Grammy-nominated album that came out last July. Scott opened with the album’s fourth entry, “My Eyes.” [embedded content] Scott’s second