Things have never been easy for Metallica’s 1996 album Load, a multiplatinum record nobody ever admits to liking, especially the band’s most avid fans. In early 1995, Metallica had a “good problem”: how to follow up The Black Album, the 1991 smash that turned them from metal heroes into global …

Follow all of our Sean Combs trial coverage Sean Combs’ ex-girlfriend finished her testimony Thursday after six days on the witness stand and faced intense questioning over the night in January 2024 when she allegedly found herself in a Las Vegas hotel room with another world-famous rapper, a male escort, …

There’s a stunning moment in Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short n’ Sweet tour, when she performs the heartbreak anthem “Lie to Girls.” She stands on stage strumming an acoustic guitar, as the crowd sings every word of the ballad: “You don’t have to lie to girls/If they like you, they’ll just lie …

The 2025 Grammy Awards were suspiciously great. Beyoncé finally won the coveted Album of the Year award for Cowboy Carter, which also scored Best Country Album and mined the history of Black musicians’ foundational contributions to country music. Chappell Roan and Doechii delivered powerful, moving speeches while accepting Best New …

Nelly and Ashanti will invite fans to take a behind-the-scenes look at their lives throughout the span of their relationship in a series premiering June 26 on Peacock. The streaming service bills Nelly and Ashanti: We Belong Together as a journey of the “superstar music couple” as they “rekindle their …

On her latest single “Wearing Black,” Laura Jane Grace declares: “My pride’s a riot, it’s not a parade.” The record’s accompanying Emily Esperanza-directed video gets the riot riled up in rooms full of sweaty bodies that took the leather and latex dress code quite seriously. “Wearing Black” carves out a …

An ex-girlfriend of Sean Combs who claimed the mogul had been continually pushing her to have a “freak-off” before he allegedly drugged her at his Miami mansion in July — two months before he was arrested —has refiled her civil lawsuit under her real name. The woman, Chelsea Lovelace, filed …

“Sunday Love,” a Bruce Springsteen ballad that’s premiering today that’s officially coming out as part of the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, finds the singer-songwriter in crooner mode. With horns and strings, the song recalls the best of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s melodramatic production, while the way …

Tyler, the Creator reflected on his career and offered creative advice to a room full of artists for Instagram’s Ask It Anyway, a new series of conversations with prominent artists. Designer and The Cutting Room Floor podcaster Recho Omondi moderated the inaugural edition with Tyler, who was characteristically irreverent during …

Douglas McCarthy, the vocalist who hectored anarchic invective with EBM innovators Nitzer Ebb and who joined Depeche Mode keyboardist Alan Wilder’s Recoil side project, died Wednesday at the age of 58. Nitzer Ebb’s social media confirmed his death without revealing a cause of death, promising more info in the future. …