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Osheaga 2023 The Montreal festival announced its heavy hitters for the 16th edition The 16th edition of Montreal’s Osheaga Music and Arts Festival announced its heavy hitters for the 2023 event from August 4 to 6. Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, and Rüfüs Du Sol will headline the festival that will take place at Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau

Gunna will be released from prison after pleading guilty to the RICO Act violation charge against him in the sweeping YSL gang case.  The rapper — real name Sergio Kitchens — explained his plea in a statement issued via his lawyers. In it, Kitchens said he was taking an “Alford plea,” otherwise known as a

Drinking Buddies Chaos, confessions and laughter ensues Lizzo joined Seth Meyers on the latest edition of “Day Drinking” on the Late Night show. The host’s past drinking buddies have included Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Lorde, Post Malone, and Seth’s mother. The pair met up at Valerie in New York and the day started off with tequila

As Swifties already knew: Taylor Swift dived into her deep, personal heartbreak on “All Too Well,” making the Red song an all-time favorite. The pop star recently sat down with director Martin McDonagh for Variety to discuss directing her All Too Well: The Short Film. “Emotionally, I was going through exactly what the short film

Tory Lanez’s felony assault trial opened in Los Angeles Monday with prosecutors revealing for the first time that key witness Kelsey Harris will testify she saw Lanez fire the semiautomatic 9mm handgun that wounded Megan Thee Stallion in both feet in the predawn hours of July 12, 2020. Harris was Megan’s best friend and assistant

Warren Haynes is taking a breather in his dressing room at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center in Asheville, North Carolina, after powering through a wicked jam of the Allman Brothers Band’s “Melissa” with country duo Brothers Osborne. He’s due back onstage in an hour for another inspired collab: performing Charlie Daniels Band’s “Trudy” with Appalachian hero

Spanning myriad genres — from superstar pop, hip-hop, and Afropop, to indie-rock, K-pop, reggaeton, R&B, and reggae — Rolling Stone‘s list of the Top 100 albums of 2022 may well be our most musically diverse year-end round-up ever. In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we zero in on that list’s

“Mom is gone,” Cher tweeted Saturday Georgia Holt, singer, actress and mother of Cher, has died at the age of 96. “Mom is gone,” Cher tweeted Saturday night; a rep for the singer confirmed Holt’s death to The Hollywood Reporter. While no cause of death was provided, Cher previously revealed that her mother had been

“It’s Morocco Time” The rapper is proudly repping his Moroccan roots, after the country’s soccer team defeated Portugal to move into the World Cup semifinals French Montana took to Instagram Saturday to congratulate Morocco’s soccer team for making it into the World Cup semifinals, and the rapper didn’t hesitate to take a little shot at

Yes Please U.K. rapper also shares cover art and track list for much-anticipated follow-up to Sometimes I Might Be Introvert Just days after Little Simz announced her new album No Thank You — the much-anticipated follow-up to her acclaimed Sometimes I Might Be Introvert — the U.K. rapper revealed Saturday that the LP is arriving

The disgraced singer claimed he had no involvement with the album’s release, according to a new report A new R. Kelly album titled I Admit It appeared on streaming services on Friday but R. Kelly has denied involvement with the track’s release, calling it a plot to undermine him in court, according to audio obtained

What if Dove Cameron was one of Charlie’s Angels? On Friday, Cameron released her song “Girl Like Me,” an electric guitar-backed twist on the 1994 Edwyn Collins “Girl Like You” featured in the Nineties film. “I grew up listening to the original by Edwyn Collins, and it’s been one of my favorite songs since as

If modern R&B were a Nineties teen melodrama, SZA would be the cool girl with a Trapper Keeper full of receipts on everyone. She’s the queen of revenge fantasy—exes get offed (before being told in no uncertain terms that their stroke is weak), and toxic rivals get dragged for fun in her songs, which come

Ben Gibbard will be working double shifts next summer when the two groups he fronts, Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service, embark on a double-anniversary tour. Each act will perform the album it released in 2003 — Death Cab’s Transatlanticism and the Postal Service’s influential Give Up — on each tour date. The

Today, Ye, fka Kanye West, did something he hasn’t done much in 2022 in the midst of trying to rewrite history on Nazis — he released a song. The controversial artist, who has come under fire for the toxic work conditions at his Yeezy empire, uploaded a two-minute song entitled “Someday We’ll All Be Free”

Much of the discussion around producer-helmed rap albums favors the so-called boom-bap variety. Where fans clamor for their favorite lyricists to lock in with one producer, like Nas and Hit-Boy, Gibbs and Madlib, or Black Thought and Danger Mouse on Cheat Codes. It makes sense that the classic two-person dynamic is reflected in traditionalist hip-hop

Lizzo was awarded two trophies at the 2022 People’s Choice Awards on Tuesday night including song of the year for her chart-topping “About Damn Time.” Yet it was her People’s Champion honor that resonated with the crowd and audiences watching. Her mother Shari Johnson-Jefferson presented the award to her daughter. “When I think of Lizzo

Tory Lanez has been hit with a third felony charge as he awaits opening statements in his trial over claims he shot Megan Thee Stallion in her feet more than two years ago. Prosecutors added the new charge of discharging a firearm with gross negligence amid ongoing jury selection in the case, Rolling Stone has

Jim Stewart, co-founder of R&B label Stax and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, died on Monday, longtime staff Stax songwriter David Porter confirmed on Monday. Stewart was 92. “No way a poor kid from a housing project’s picture in Memphis would be on a bus rolling through Memphis if it were not for this

Matty Healy stepped away from the 1975 to jam out with emo rockers Dashboard Confessional. During the Chris Carrabba-led band’s set at the Audacy Beach Festival — which the 1975 co-headlined — in Florida, Healy jammed out on electric guitar with the rest of the group for their closing song “Hands Down.” “Emo multiverse is