We’re hours away from Barbra Streisand‘s memoir, My Name is Barbra, and stories are starting to emerge from the long-anticipated tome. In a new interview with the BBC, Streisand recounted one of the many tales she tells in the 992-page book — and it’s an impressive flex. In the book, …
Read More »Tate McRae Announces New Album 'Think Later' and 2024 World Tour: 'I Can't Believe This is Happening'
On her “Promiscuous”-coded single “Greedy,” Tate McRae warns potential suitors about letting her attention go to their head — but she never said that she couldn’t be over-indulgent herself. The Canadian pop musician will keep her hot streak going with Think Later, her sophomore album set for release on Dec. …
Read More »Lauryn Hill Tells Audience They're 'Lucky' She Even Showed Up to Concert She Agreed to Play
The unspoken contract between Lauryn Hill and the fans who attend her live shows maintains that the singer will show up when she’s ready, and they will either wait patiently or plan to arrive late, too. Currently on the road for an anniversary tour celebrating 25 years of The Miseducation …
Read More »How Protesting Iceland's 'Frankenstein Fish' Inspired Björk and Rosalía to Unite for a Surprisingly Poppy Duet
Björk feels furious when she thinks about the thousands of what she calls “Frankenstein fish” swimming through Iceland’s rivers in the past year. Like a scene from Piranha, the foreign fish — industrially farmed salmon that companies bred in open-net pens — escaped enclosures in Iceland’s western fjords and entered …
Read More »'1989 (Taylor's Version)' Outsells Original Album for Debut Week
1989 (Taylor’s Version) debuted atop the Billboard 200 Albums chart, the publication announced on Sunday, marking Swift’s third album to top the album chart this year. Coming in second this week was K-pop group Seventeen’s Seventeenth Heaven, while Drake’s For All The Dogs took third, Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo …
Read More »The Moment It Was Clear Tupac Would be a Star
Inthe spring of1990, Tupac Shakur was shuttling between Marin City and Oakland, California, restlessly seeking his future. His manager, Atron Gregory, was shopping his demo tape but with little success so far. Meanwhile, activism beckoned. Friends of his mother, the former Black Panther revolutionary Afeni Shakur, had engaged Tupac to …
Read More »Missy Elliott, Rage Against the Machine Storm the Rock Hall at Wild Brooklyn Ceremony
It was a few minutes past midnight when Missy Elliott stepped up to the podium at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and cemented her place in history as the first female hip-hop artist to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She’d spent the past four hours witnessing speeches and performances …
Read More »Inside Amapiano Sensation Uncle Waffles' Vibrant Headlining Debut
When Uncle Waffles left her Manhattan hotel for her first headlining show in Brooklyn, her fiery red hair was full of bounce and curves. By the time she plays “Tanzania,” her first single after rising to prominence as a DJ specializing in South African Amapiano, it instead flows kinkily down …
Read More »See U2 Perform 'Seconds' for First Time in Nearly 40 Years at the Sphere
While Achtung Baby is the centerpiece of U2’s game-changing Las Vegas residency, the band have been using the Sphere to revisit long-forgotten songs from their catalog. That continued Friday night as Bono and company dug out “Seconds” for the first time live since 1985. “A great Adam Clayton bassline that …
Read More »Oakland Street Renamed 'Tupac Shakur Way' to Honor Rapper
The city of Oakland and some of the Bay Area’s most renowned MCs paid tribute to Tupac Shakur Friday at a ceremony celebrating the renaming of a street after the rapper. Members of the Shakur family were also on hand as a stretch of Oakland’s MacArthur Blvd. became “Tupac Shakur …
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