Music

The independent record label Empire has brought nineteen acts from six African nations together on one album and is set to share it with the world in less than two weeks. The compilation, titled Where We Come From (Vol. 1), which arrives November 30th, first started to take shape at …

Saweetie isn’t here for the kiss and tell. On Friday, the Bay Area rap star released The Single Life, a six-song project about her new life as a single woman, including “Don’t Say Nothing,” a pointed track about men who “speak on who they be fuckin’ on.” On the track, …

The Justice Department is investigating whether Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation has abused its power as the dominant force in the live music industry, The New York Times reports. On Tuesday, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar revealed that a U.S. Senate antitrust panel will hold a hearing to discuss the lack …

Noah Cyrus and PJ Harding delivered “Snow in LA,” their latest collaboration, on Thursday night. The song plays off the traditional sounds of a Christmas carol while delivering a message on climate change and “the lies grown-ups tell.” The track, written by Cyrus and Harding (who also produced the song), …

If you scrolled through TikTok this year, you’ve probably heard Destroy Lonely’s “NOSTYLIST.” The 21-year-old Atlanta native scored a viral hit when he crooned over a mesmerizing beat, boasting about waking up and “putting that shit on,” shouting out his favorite brands to wear and reminding us all that he …

Toward the end of the 2022 Latin Grammys, Person of the Year recipient Marco Antonio Solís took the stage for a second time following a solo performance he’d done earlier in the evening. This time, he reunited with his band Los Bukis and performed several classics by their side. Solís …

From the Beatles to Odd Future, when a beloved, successful, and ceiling-shattering group parts ways, it always feels bittersweet. Since arriving in the early 2010s, Texas-bred alternative hip-hop crew Brockhampton have been one of rap’s most artistically and socially progressive groups. But considering their record-label woes, the 2018 sexual-assault allegations …

Bruce Springsteen closed out his three-episode residency on The Tonight Show Wednesday with a soulful rendition of “Nightshift,” off his new covers LP Only the Strong Survive. Backed by the same powerhouse band that accompanied him for the previous night’s performances, Springsteen delivered his take on the Commodores’ 1985 classic, …

“It’s been a long, strange year/ everyone is sad,” Natalie Mering notes near the end of her musical project Weyes Blood’s fifth album. That observation comes at the outset of “The Worst Is Done,” which finds Mering taking stock of recent history’s bleakness and casting a weary glance upon any …

Skittles wants to know what happened to treating people with kindness. The candy company took to social media to voice their support for Harry Styles, who was injured after a fan at one of his Los Angeles shows tossed a handful of Skittles on stage and at his face – …