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Melinda Wilson, wife of Beach Boys‘ Brian Wilson, mother of his five youngest children, and the key architect of his comeback, died Tuesday of unknown causes. She was 77. “My heart is broken,” Brian Wilson wrote in a statement. “Our five children and I are just in tears. We are lost. Melinda was more than

Marilyn Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, has been ordered to pay Evan Rachel Wood a whopping $326,956 to cover the legal fees the Westworld actress racked up defending against the defamation and emotional distress claims previously struck from his still-pending lawsuit against her. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Teresa A. Beaudet ordered

The trial for two men accused of the 2002 murder of Jam Master Jay began with prosecutors alleging that the men had killed the Run-DMC DJ after feeling cut out of a cocaine trafficking deal he was involved in. Defense attorneys for the men countered that the U.S. government had faulty info based on the

Nicki Minaj has dropped new song “Big Foot.” The diss track arrives following a dust-up between her and Megan Thee Stallion following the latter’s release of “Hiss” on Friday. On Minaj’s new track, she goes in for the kill, straight-up naming Megan in the first verse. “This little beggin’ whore talkin’ ’bout Megan’s law/For a

GRAMMYS 2024 Nine-time Grammy winner and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient had never performed on Music’s Biggest Night Joni Mitchell will perform on the Grammy stage for the first time in her legendary career at the 2024 award show, taking place Sunday, February 4 at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena. The singer-songwriter, who is nominated for Best

14 billion & counting “It’s a really absurd number,” singer says of her 14 songs with 1 billion streams on Spotify, more than any other female artist Ariana Grande has revealed two more song names slated for her upcoming seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine, which arrives March 8. On Saturday, the singer took to her

Rising country singer performs “My First Rodeo,” “I Got Time,” and “If You Say So” for CBS Saturday Morning Rising country singer Brittney Spencer showcased songs from her 2023 debut album My Stupid Life on CBS Saturday Morning’s latest Saturday Sessions. For the performance, the Baltimore-born singer delivered “My First Rodeo,” “I Got Time,” and

The rapper released the single’s music video from his forthcoming debut solo album I’ve Never Been Here Before Erick the Architect rolled out his latest single from his forthcoming debut solo album I’ve Never Been Here Before on Friday. “Instincts” also features Westside Boogie and explores the possibility of shedding doubt and embracing intuition. The song was

Nicki Minaj has been spiraling ever since she listened to Megan Thee Stallion‘s new song “Hiss.” Megan released the track on Friday, and received an almost immediate reaction from Minaj, who seems to believe she (and her convicted sex offender husband) are being dissed in one particular lyric. In the hours since the drop, Minaj

Justin Timberlake stopped by The Tonight Show to promote his forthcoming album, Everything I Thought It Was, and took the opportunity to announce that he will be hitting the road later this year. After much prompting from host Jimmy Fallon, Timberlake confirmed, “I’m going on tour.” Although full details of the tour have yet to

No Trainees Allowed The single, out February 15, follows the previously released single “Houdini” Dua Lipa mastered the art of moving on long ago. On her self-titled debut album, she kicked an ex to the curb without a second thought on “IDGAF,” then used him as a textbook example of what not to do on

Are the writers of Jeopardy! Swifties? The most recent episode of the game show featured an entire round of trivia with categories inspired by Taylor Swift‘s song titles and lyrics. During the episodes, contestants were challenged to answer questions in categories titled “Love Story,” “Our Song,” “Bad Blood,” “Shake It Off,” “We Are Never Ever

Grammys 2024 The musician, who will release his first pop single in almost 20 years just days before, last performed at the award show alongside Tony Bennett in 2002 For the first time in 22 years, Billy Joel will be taking the stage at the Grammy Awards. The musician has been added to the growing

Coming Together The stand-along single follows the K-Pop group’s recent LP, SeventeenthHeaven Seventeen showcased a new single, “The Meaning of Meeting,” during a concert Macao’s Olympic Sports Center Stadium earlier this week. The K-Pop group shared a video of the song featuring footage from the two-night run. The song, a stand-alone digital single released primarily

“His music will live on. We can never deny the happiness and joy it brought into this world,” Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan said in a statement Frank Farian — the founder of groups Boney M. and Milli Vanilli — has died at the age of 82. The German producer’s agency released a statement Tuesday confirming

Apple Music will give higher royalty payments to music released on the streaming service in the more immersive Spatial Audio, the company announced on Monday. “As our technologies continue to evolve to allow artists everywhere to make higher-quality content than ever, we believe artists should be properly rewarded for it,” Apple Music said in its

The Grand Ole Opry celebrated Dolly Parton’s 78th birthday on Jan. 19 with a night of performances at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Friday. While the country legend herself wasn’t present for the Opry Goes Dolly event, other musicians took the stage to perform her hits in tribute — or at least they were supposed to.

Boygenius-mania was only the most visible sign of the fantastic year indie-rock had in 2023, with strong albums from newcomers (Blondshell, Kara Jackson), established stars (Mitski) and veterans (Wilco, the National). In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we go through some highlights of the year in indie albums. Trending Jon Dolan, Angie

The Charts Rapper previously topped the charts with I Am > I Was as well as collaborative albums Her Loss with Drake and Savage Mode II with Metro Boomin 21 Savage‘s American Dream has debuted atop the Billboard 200 Albums chart, the publication announced on Sunday, marking the second time the rapper has topped the