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“The spirit of Penny Lane descends on everything in my life,” says Kate Hudson, whose strong debut album, Glorious, is no exception. It all goes back to her breakthrough role in 2000’s Almost Famous, she continues: “Cameron [Crowe] hired me because I love music, and I think the easiest thing …

Welcome to our weeklyrundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, The Marias return with a dreamy sophomore album, Shaboozey harmonizes with Noah Cyrus about a self-destructive romance, and Kehlani proves she can be a lover and a fighter. …

When Shaboozey was writing “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” he wanted to keep the arrangements sounding as organic as possible. He built the track around J-Kwon’s 2004 hit “Tipsy,” and within an hour, he had his very own ode to raising a glass — with a country twist. The megahit quickly …

T he average high temperature in Quebec City in March is 33 degrees Fahrenheit, with a low of around 18. That’s apparently of no consequence to the locals, who have chosen the month for an outdoor music festival appropriately dubbed Igloofest. The annual event, billed as “the coldest music festival …

Following Rolling Stone’s six-month investigation into alleged violent abuse by Sean Combs, Notorious B.I.G.‘s mother, Voletta Wallace, tells Rolling Stone that she hopes the disgraced Bad Boy mogul apologizes to Cassie and his mother and that she wants to “slap the daylights out of him.” It’s been a steady stream …

For all its surface smoothness, yacht rock —and the artists who created it over the last few decades — can be turbulent below deck. Some of the musicians and singers associated with the genre (whether they want to be linked to it or not) can have dark sides, illicit pasts, …

A s he took the stage at the BET Awards in June 2022 to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, Sean “Diddy” Combs was elated. “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!” he bellowed, punctuating his words with triumphant jumps. The adoring crowd — who gave him a sustained standing …

Shortly after R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed her sex-trafficking lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs last November, Rolling Stone launched a wide-ranging, six-month investigation into the rapper, record mogul, and billionaire businessman. The reporting led to interviews with more than 50 people connected to Combs throughout his career, stretching back …

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged violence toward women dates back to his days as a student at Howard University in the late 1980s, when the future hip-hop mogul purportedly attacked a girlfriend outside of her dorm, horrifying her classmates and friends, three sources claim to Rolling Stone. Combs allegedly screamed in …

In the summer of 2018, Richie Castellano and his buddies posted a remarkable cover of the 1972 Yes epic “Close to the Edge” to their YouTube channel and watched it rack up over half a million views. “I’m blown away by these comments,” he wrote in response to the outpouring …