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Year In Music From Kendrick Lamar to Tyler, the Creator and Cash Cobain, the year in hip-hop featured a variety of styles and sounds. The year in hip-hop was defined by an epic battle between two of the genre’s biggest stars, Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Kendrick’s decisive victory over Drizzy culminated in one of the

Dance Ready The pop legend previously worked with producer Stuart Price for Confessions on a Dance Floor Is Confessions on a Dance Floor Madonna back? After wrapping up her ultra-successful Celebration Tour this year, Madonna said in a social media post Monday that she’s ready to start 2025 with a new era of music. And

U.K. rapper Slowthai was acquitted on rape charges stemming from an allegation that he and a co-defendant attacked two women at a party following a concert in Oxford in 2021, the BBC reports.  The rapper, real name Tyron Frampton, and co-defendant Alex Blake-Walker were both found not guilty on three counts of rape following 10

The Charts Rosé’s debut solo album, Rosie, bows at Number Three, while Kendrick Lamar’s GNX holds steady at Number Two Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department lands its 17th week atop the Billboard 200, as the publication reports. The album reappeared at the Number One spot last week following the album’s deluxe Anthology version being

Dan Nigro’s emo-inflected ’00s indie band, As Tall As Lions, always hovered on the edge of mass success, but Nigro has since decided they were missing one thing: a great producer. “I always wish that I had somebody when I was younger that just helped shift me a little bit,” he says. “Like, ‘That’s cool,

Dan Nigro’s emo-inflected ’00s indie band, As Tall As Lions, always hovered on the edge of mass success, but Nigro has since decided they were missing one thing: a great producer. “I always wish that I had somebody when I was younger that just helped shift me a little bit,” he says. “Like, ‘That’s cool,

Stop it already The musician is one of many artists who have been pelted with objects while performing Billie Eilish was hit in the face by an object that looks to be a blue bracelet while performing in Glendale, Arizona on Friday. There has been a growing number of disturbing incidents where concertgoers have been

reload-ing Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament also makes guest appearance during “Hit the Lights” at Los Angeles acoustic-and-electric show Metallica staged their annual Helping Hands benefit concert Friday night in Los Angeles, with the heavy metal legends delivering a set full of long-unplayed songs, covers, and classics across their acoustic-and-electric sets. The concert at Inglewood, California’s

The woman who accused billionaire rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z and disgraced media mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping her when she was 13 years old has acknowledged that there are inconsistencies in her allegations. In a new interview with NBC News, the woman, who is suing as a Jane Doe, said that “not all of the

lump of coal After calling off a gig in Pittsburgh, Carey was forced to cancel two additional shows in New Jersey and New York Mariah Carey is still sadly unable to spread any holiday cheer at the moment, with the official Queen of Christmas canceling two more shows on her holiday tour due to an

Heartwarming The star took pictures with young fans and staffers while giving out autographed copies of the Eras Tour book Taylor Swift paid a visit to a children’s hospital in Kansas City on Thursday, just days after wrapping up the Eras Tour. Several staffers and patient family members at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City posted

Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued Thursday by three new John Doe plaintiffs alleging the Bad Boy Entertainment founder sexually assaulted them in New York in the past five years. The three men allege they were drugged and sodomized by the disgraced music mogul on separate occasions. Combs, who’s now under indictment for alleged sex trafficking,

After more than a year of dating, singer, actress and entrepreneur Selena Gomez and producer-songwriter Benny Blanco are engaged. Gomez shared the news on Instagram on Wednesday, along with the caption, “forever begins now..” The post included photos of the diamond ring, Gomez admiring it during a picnic, and the happy couple celebrating the moment.

It’s not hard to be a Bruce Springsteen fan. Millions of people around the world do it every day effortlessly, relishing the power, the glory, the promise, the majesty, the mystery, and the ministry of rock & roll as only Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen can deliver it. It’s much harder to fake being a Bruce

After reaching a complex global settlement with prosecutors in multiple jurisdictions, rap star NBA YoungBoy resolved his last remaining criminal cases Tuesday by pleading guilty to one count linked to his 2020 gun possession arrest in Louisiana and a separate count tied to a more recent gun charge filed in Utah. The rapper, born Kentrell

In addition to their annual Philadelphia music festival the Roots Picnic, the iconic hip-hop and Tonight Show house band the Roots will throw a show in Los Angeles on June 8. Named “A Roots Picnic Experience: The Class of ’95,” it will feature 1990s rap all-stars such as Lil’ Kim, Redman & Method Man, Bone

Since jumpstarting the Eras Tour in March 2023, Taylor Swift has given $197 million in bonuses to her performers and crew members, Rolling Stone has confirmed. Crew members, who received the bonus on top of their salaries, include truck drivers, caterers, instrument technicians, the merchandise team, the lighting and sound team, production staff and assistants,

Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and Amanda Palmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records.  The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for the Future, states that the

Jay-Z was accused in a civil lawsuit on Sunday of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 alongside Sean Combs. The lawsuit, first filed in October in the Southern District of New York, initially listed the Roc Nation mogul, whose real name is Shawn Carter, as an unidentified celebrity defendant. Carter has vehemently denied the allegation

T.G. Sheppard knows exactly how people at home may have felt when they were watching Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, the landmark 1983 TV special honoring one of the most enduring record companies ever. The singer was feeling the same way backstage at the Pasadena Civic Center in California, marveling at moments like Michael Jackson’s “Billie