Lawyers for Sam Smith and Normani are asking a judge to reject the bulk of an amended copyright infringement lawsuit that alleges the superstar duo’s 2019 multiplatinum hit “Dancing With a Stranger” stole from a 2015 song by the same name. In a recently filed dismissal motion obtained by Rolling …

UPDATE 9/7: Sony Music has fully left Russia six months after it, and the other major labels, suspended operations there following the invasion of Ukraine. As Billboard reports, Sony Music Group said in a statement that it had “made the decision to exit the Russian marketplace completely and transfer the …

Trump-backed Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters defended 9/11 trutherism, urged his peers not to vote, and called health inspectors “bullshit” while he was a student at Stanford in 2006, according to a trove of emails obtained by Huffpost. At the time, Masters was living in Columbae, a community-run vegan housing …

Lewis Capaldi has revealed that he’s recently been diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome. On Monday, the “Someone You Loved” singer shared that it “makes so much sense” that the syndrome is to blame for shoulder twitches he’s seen himself have since 2018. (“I’ve always had it, apparently,” he said.) “The worst …

If the Creative Arts Emmys are any indication, there’s a good chance that the HBO drama Euphoria will win big at the 2022 Primetime Emmys, sparking new interest in the upcoming third season of the raunchy teen drama. Backstage at the event, Emmy award-winning actor Colman Domingo told Deadline that …

To some, last week’s news that Micky Dolenz had filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice to obtain the complete FBI file on the Monkees was a surprise: The Monkees, subversive? But as it turns out, the made-for-TV Monkees were just one of many pop artists who’ve been the …

5 Seconds of Summer are stepping into the emotional love department, thanks to Luke Hemmings and his fiancée Sierra Deaton. On Wednesday, Aug. 7, the Australian band released their single “Older,” which features Deaton’s vocals. “Stare at the photograph/Suddenly takes me back/The promises roll off your breath/In your cocaine-colored wedding …

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Ten years ago, Scottish producer and DJ Hudson Mohawke was a major influence in “wonky” electronic music, a subgenre full of disjointed and unexpected beats. But he couldn’t have known, when he released his 2011 album Satin Panthers, that he’d one day wield far greater influence over a young man’s …