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Red Velvet is turning a classic song into a K-pop banger. On Monday, the girl group released their mini-album, The ReVe Festival 2022 – Birthday, led by the title track “Birthday,” which featured a sample of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” “It’s your day/Clasp your two hands tight, keep on …

Billie Eilish, Annie Lennox, Finneas, Chloe x Halle and Ellie Goulding are performing during the Earthshot Prize Ceremony, which will be taped in Boston on Friday, Dec. 2. “The urgent need to protect and restore our Earth’s damaged environmental systems is essential for future survival,” Lennox said in a statement, …

For Pusha T, hearing about Kany West’s blatant antisemitism has been nothing less than “disappointing.” In a new interview with Los Angeles Times, the rapper spoke about his working relationship with Ye after collaborating on It’s Almost Dry and how he felt after hearing about West’s hateful comments. “It’s definitely …

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas have begun work on a new album, the pop star revealed in a new video interview with Vanity Fair. Asked if she’s been seeing much of her brother/key collaborator lately, Eilish said, “We see each other all the time, and also now, we’re starting …

A talent scout who worked with Atlantic Records from the 1980s to the mid-2000s sued the label and the estate of its founder Ahmet Ertegun on Monday, accusing the deceased record executive of multiple instances of sexual assault and claiming that Atlantic did little to stop Ertegun’s alleged behavior. Jan …

J.Lo’s in love — and she’s not gonna hide it! After announcing her upcoming album This Is Me… Now, Jennifer Lopez spoke to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 about the record, revealing that the LP was inspired by her rekindling with the “love of my life,” Ben Affleck. “We …

Across their EP Abismos, sisters Valeria and Valentina Perez are perfectly in sync, their diaphanous voices winding in and out of each other to create unexpected harmonies at every turn. As preternatural as it sounds, they admit it took them a while to find the sense of unity that’s defined …

Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War will be turned into a new limited TV drama, Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, Variety reports. The new show is based on journalist Matti Friedman’s 2022 book of the same name. Friedman discovered and was allowed …

Seven years after releasing their last studio album, Metallica are raging back with a gut-punching new song, “Lux Æterna,” which is Latin for “eternal light” and part of the Catholic requiem mass. Amid slashing guitar riffs and battering-ram bass drumming, frontman James Hetfield sings about casting out “demons that strangle …

Lauren Christy has had a hand in some of the biggest hits of the past 20 years. As a songwriter and producer, she’s made a living co-writing hits like Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8ter Boi,” “Complicated” and “I’m With You” alongside Jason Mraz’s breakout single “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry),” and tracks …