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Saturday Night Live is tapping into WWE Friday Night Smackdown in the promotional teaser for its upcoming double-duty episode set to be helmed by Bad Bunny. In the brief clip for the episode, the ultimate face-off is between Bad Bunny, the host, versus Bad Bunny, the musical guest — and …

The world of jazz is mourning the death of Carla Bley. On Tuesday, Bley’s longtime partner and musical collaborator Steve Swallow announced that the jazz musician died at the age of 87 due to complications with brain cancer. Bley was diagnosed with brain cancer back in 2018. “Sometimes I don’t …

Jason Aldean defended his controversial song and music video “Try That in a Small Town” this week. “If you’ve got common sense, you can look at the video and see, I’m not sayin’ anything that’s not true,” the singer, who has sparked many a controversy, claimed on the podcast Coop’s …

I t’s a little more than three hours before Mannequin Pussy take the stage at Brooklyn Steel in front of a near-capacity crowd. A long line of fans is already stretching down the block, waiting for the doors to open. But the four members of the punk band are unable …

Britney Spears opened up about her physically grueling and mentally frustrating life under her conservatorship, saying the arrangement made her feel not just like a robot, but “a sort of child-robot.” “I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she said …

With nowhere to hide, Feist embraced being in plain sight as she performed “Hiding Out in the Open” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night. The record appeared on the singer’s latest album, Multitudes, released in April. For the performance, Feist was joined by a full backing …

Alicia Keys was pressured to clarify that her Instagram post about wanting to learn how to paraglide was definitely not in any way an allusion to an incident in the Israel–Hamas conflict, as some extremely online commentators suggested. On Monday, Keys shared a photo of herself with a banal caption …

Raye‘s debut album, My 21st Century Blues, underwent a symphonic reinvention late last month when the singer performed the record in its entirety at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Joined by the Heritage Orchestra and the Flames Collective, a 30-piece gospel choir, the British musician captured those new and elevated arrangements …

Britney Spears‘ highly anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, comes out next week, but some bombshells from the book have dropped early. One securely kept secret that Spears reveals is that at 19, she became pregnant with then-boyfriend Justin Timberlake‘s child, though she ended up having an abortion. According to …

Helado Negro has announced his new album, Phasor, set to arrive on Feb. 9 via 4AD. The nine-song LP includes the new single “LFO” (an acronym for Lupe Finds Oliveros), which the musician shared on Tuesday. The Spanish-language track is inspired by Lupe Lopez, a Mexican American woman who built …