The Fugees’ Pras Michel is arguing he deserves a new trial in his federal conspiracy case in part because his original attorney provided “ineffective representation,” even allegedly using an AI program to draft his closing argument. Back in April, Michel was convicted on 10 counts of conspiracy and falsifying records …

Danny Brown is finally ready to give the world his seventh album, Quaranta. On Tuesday, the rapper revealed that he’ll release the upcoming LP via Warp Records on Nov. 17 after announcing it with Rolling Stone in September. Among the songs on the LP are “Celibate” with MIKE, “Y.B.P.” with …

Helado Negro has announced his new album, Phasor, set to arrive on Feb. 9 via 4AD. The nine-song LP includes the new single “LFO” (an acronym for Lupe Finds Oliveros), which the musician shared on Tuesday. The Spanish-language track is inspired by Lupe Lopez, a Mexican American woman who built …

Britney Spears‘ highly anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, comes out next week, but some bombshells from the book have dropped early. One securely kept secret that Spears reveals is that at 19, she became pregnant with then-boyfriend Justin Timberlake‘s child, though she ended up having an abortion. According to …

As the school year kicked off in the Spanish town of Almendralejo, teenage girls began to come home telling their parents of disturbing encounters with classmates, some of whom were claiming to have seen naked photos of them. A group of mothers quickly created a WhatsApp group to discuss the …

Raye‘s debut album, My 21st Century Blues, underwent a symphonic reinvention late last month when the singer performed the record in its entirety at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Joined by the Heritage Orchestra and the Flames Collective, a 30-piece gospel choir, the British musician captured those new and elevated arrangements …

Human beings are inherently social, as evidenced by the invention of communication technologies from the telephone to social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Once you understand that the world is filled with a unique species that feel a great deal of comfort from social connectivity, it should be no …

Alicia Keys was pressured to clarify that her Instagram post about wanting to learn how to paraglide was definitely not in any way an allusion to an incident in the Israel–Hamas conflict, as some extremely online commentators suggested. On Monday, Keys shared a photo of herself with a banal caption …

On Monday night, the University of Oxford hosted What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Cancel Culture, a lecture from columnist Douglas Murray honoring the late conservative British philosopher Roger Scruton. There, Kevin Spacey performed a five-minute scene from Timon of Athens, marking his first onstage appearance since being acquitted of …

With nowhere to hide, Feist embraced being in plain sight as she performed “Hiding Out in the Open” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night. The record appeared on the singer’s latest album, Multitudes, released in April. For the performance, Feist was joined by a full backing …