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ALBUM REVIEW The Puerto Rican rapper’s new 23-song album has everything from bachata to New Jack Swing Myke Towers has positioned himself as one of the top Latin rappers and reggaetoneros. With his fourth album, LVEU: Vive La Tuya…No La Mía, the Puerto Rican artist proves that he’s an all-around Latin pop star. Towers finds

Bitten Lips The sapphic-themed new track was born from a studio session where they “made a ton of songs,” Karol G told Rolling Stone Two Colombiana reinas have teamed up to bring back OG reggaeton: Kali Uchis just released “Labios Mordidos,” a new collaboration with fellow superstar Karol G. The song carries an old-school reggaetón

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with a third lawsuit alleging sexual assault under the Adult Survivors Act that expired after Thanksgiving. The new complaint from an anonymous accuser alleges Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping the plaintiff and her friend in 1990 or 1991 – and that Diddy turned violent during a

The country star donned the iconic blue-and-white outfit to perform “Jolene,” “9 to 5,” and songs from her new album Rockstar Dolly Parton’s promotional push behind her new album Rockstar has been as well-planned as a military operation. The country music superstar has been everywhere, from an hourlong interview on ABC earlier this month to

A woman is filing a lawsuit against music executive Jimmy Iovine, alleging the Interscope Records co-founder sexually abused her and forcibly touched her, according to court documents. Iovine tells Rolling Stone he’s “shocked and baffled” by the claim. A Jane Doe plaintiff filed a summons and notice on Wednesday in New York and alleges Iovine, 70, engaged

The lawsuit alleging Lizzo harassed a trio of backup dancers had its first major court hearing Wednesday, with lawyers on both sides sparring over allegations the singer created a hostile work environment on tour. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark H. Epstein declined to issue an immediate ruling on Lizzo’s motion to spike the

Less than a week after Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused of rape and sex trafficking by R&B singer Cassie, a longtime executive at his company Bad Boy Entertainment is being sued for allegedly grooming and sexually assaulting his assistant. Harve Pierre, the former president of Bad Boy who met Diddy when they were students together

Fans of Lana Del Rey wanted so badly to hear more of the Honeymoon singer on “Snow on the Beach” that Taylor Swift released an edition with “more” Lana on the deluxe edition of Midnights earlier this year. Well, Del Rey is setting the record straight: She was “all over” the track all along —

Otherworldly The band welcomed the former Late Show host with a song from their new album Laugh Track The National delivered a heartfelt performance of “Space Invader” to welcome back David Letterman to the Late Show on Monday. Matt Berninger performed the single, from their newly released album Laugh Track, as the stage flooded with blue

Last week, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed a federal lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York federal court. Her lawsuit includes graphic claims of sexual assault, physical abuse, and an allegation that Combs, her ex-boyfriend, would force her to have sex with male sex workers while he watched. Ventura’s claims are among the worst, but

A new crowd pleaser has made it to the Paramore set list. The band live debuted their single “Thick Skull” at the Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday night. The audience waved their hands in the air as frontwoman Hayley Williams prompted, “Come on out with your hands up.”  The song is the

Rush frontman and bassist Geddy Lee, author of the excellent new autobiography My Effin’ Life, talks about many things in his new Rolling Stone Music Now interview, from his childhood as the son of two Holocaust survivors to his earliest musical influences (including the Hollies, Motown hits, Cream and Rhinoceros) to the ups and downs

Think Later Canadian pop singer debuts on SNL with two singles from upcoming album Singer Tate McRae debuted as Saturday Night Live musical guest with “Greedy,” the lead single from her upcoming album Think Later. [embedded content] Think Later comes out December 8, and the Canadian pop musician has scheduled a world tour next year

Settlement The suit settled a day after the singer accused the hip-hop mogul of rape and physical abuse Sean Combs and Cassie have reached a settlement in the singer’s lawsuit against Combs, in which she accused him of rape, sex trafficking and physical abuse. In statements obtained by Rolling Stone, both parties said they had

‘You Did You First’ In the song, Pardi raps that he was going propose to Megan and that she allegedly lied to Gayle King on television Two weeks after Megan Thee Stallion seemingly called her ex-boyfriend Pardison “Pardi” Fontaine out for cheating on her new track “Cobra,” Pardi followed up with his own diss-track and

L.A.-based musician Matthew “Matthewdavid” McQueen is credited on Andre 3000’s debut solo album, New Blue Sun, as providing “mycelial electronics.” The 39-year-old founder of the record label and music collective Leaving released Mycelium Music in April, an album inspired by the interconnected networks of fungi and produced in large part using an open-source, script-based instrument

Steve Aoki has been a household name for the last two decades, but that hasn’t stopped him from perpetually experimenting — bounding from one sound to the next — and challenging how his music is consumed, understood, and memorialized. “There’s no one doing what I’m doing,” he tells Rolling Stone when reflecting on HiROQUEST 2:

As a teenager, Edgar Barrera used to work at his local mall, folding clothes. But Barrera was the kind of guy who wanted to be employee of the month. If he was going to fold clothes, he wanted to be the best at it. So it’s no surprise that decades later, after becoming the Latin

YouTube is launching a new feature that will give select users the ability to make music with the artificial intelligence-generated vocals of several prominent artists, the company announced late Wednesday.  The experiment, called Dream Track, is a text-based feature that allows users to make a request for a song by describing qualities such as the

An Evil World Lil Uzi Vert previously disavowed ever agreeing to perform at the fest despite being listed as a headliner Rolling Loud next year will not feature previously announced headliner Lil Uzi Vert — the rapper, who uses they/them pronouns, said on Tuesday that they don’t even “understand why [their] name is on” the