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Dua Lipa took the stage at the 2024 BRIT Awards to open the ceremony with a performance of “Training Season.” Last month, the singer also launched the Grammy Awards with a medley that included the song, alongside “Dance the Night” and “Houdini.” Backed by dancers and dressed in a cropped …

Raye had already made history going into the Brit Awards ceremony on Saturday, having been the first artist to rack up seven nominations. Now, the singer has smashed another record, taking home six awards — Songwriter of the Year, Song of the Year, Best R&B Act, Best New Artist, Artist …

The California dad charged with helping his teen son plot what turned into the deadly armed robbery of rapper PnB Rock failed to get his murder charges dropped Friday with arguments including one that suggested the son may have fired out of “fear.” At a morning hearing in Compton, Calif., …

Cardi B said that her long-awaited sophomore album will finally drop this year, teasing the new record on her Instagram story Friday. In the clip, the rapper said that she’s “not letting my anxiety, I’m not letting what haters say, I’m not letting what fans say” prevent her from releasing …

Almost immediately after its founding in 1955, the Village Voice became the most raucous, irreverent and important alternative newspaper in America. At one point the Voice was the most read weekly in the country, serving as Andy Warhol put it “the entire liberal thinking world.” In her excellent new book …

On a warm evening last month, inside a cluster of nondescript office spaces south of Miami, a rehearsal studio with a giant lion’s head painted in red, green, and gold on the concrete-block wall hums with activity. Long after the businesses surrounding them have shut down for the day, Stephen …

For the past decade, Kacey Musgraves has been country music’s most daring traditionalist — a small-town realist who’s also a campy country-disco queen and a folkie who once wrote a song about smoking weed with John Prine. Her last LP, the 2021 post-divorce record Star-Crossed, was another reminder that her …

Five years to the day since Hozier released his second album, Wasteland, Baby! the impassioned Irishman is reissuing the album with bonus tracks that display new depths to his emotions. On “Be (Acoustic),” Mr. Hozier-Byrne strips away the original’s snaky funk bass and dials back his own tumult for a …

The musical seeds that Miley Cyrus and Pharrell Williams planted more than a decade ago are in full bloom on their newly-released single “Doctor (Work It Out).” The song, which was first created in 2012 around the time that Cyrus was working on her 2013 album Bangerz, leaked online in …

When Joe Keery first moved to Chicago to attend DePaul University’s Theatre School, he had no idea what direction his life would take. After graduating in 2014, the Massachusetts native stuck around for three more years, working at a restaurant, getting small acting gigs, playing in his former band Post …