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Ed Sheeran has announced a show of his Jackson Pollock-inspired paintings in London. The show, titled “Cosmic Carpark Paintings,” will open on July 10 at the Heni Gallery in Soho and will raise money for the singer’s Ed Sheeran Foundation. “So last year in between shows I was doing these …

Wet Leg brought their slippery new album Moisturizer to NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series. Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers selected four songs from the record, out Friday, July 11, to showcase their latest era alongside guitarist Joshua Mobaraki, bassist Ellis Durand, and drummer Henry Holmes. Wet Leg opened the set …

The jam band scene – long reigned over by groups like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band – exploded in the Nineties as newer artists like Phish and Widespread Panic began filling arenas and fomenting their own rabid vagabonding fanbases. A new book by rock journalist Mike Ayers, …

Less than a year after hip-hop mogul T.I. and his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, scored an eye-watering $71 million jury award with claims toy titan MGA Entertainment copied the name, neon hair, and unique outfits of their teen pop group OMG Girlz, a judge has slashed the payout by nearly …

Follow all of our Sean Combs trial coverage When Sean Combs was acquitted of two sex trafficking charges after harrowing testimony from R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a more recent ex-girlfriend who testified under the pseudonym Jane, some surmised the jury simply didn’t believe the women. But there’s another …

As Sudanese-American rapper Bas was prepping the release of Melanchronica, his somber joint album with London duo the Hics, one major hiccup stood in the way. The sample on “Four Walls,” a break-up ballad and the first song the three of them created for the LP eight years ago, kept …

The singing competition series Building the Band is now streaming on Netflix. But while the cast, crew, and contestants revel in the release, they also feel the noticeable absence of guest host Liam Payne, who died in October 2024, months after filming began. In the first episode of the series, …

On July 8, Nicki Minaj took to both Instagram and X to air a series of grievances. Over a sprawling series of posts, she took aim at Megan Thee Stallion, her management company Roc Nation, its founder Jay-Z, its CEO Desiree Perez and even the Democratic party in the U.S. …

Wandering through the streets of Detroit, Debby Friday sensed an absence around her. “There’s this very ghostly feeling,” the Nigerian-Canadian musician tells Rolling Stone over Zoom from her home in Toronto, “because you could feel that it was built for more people than live there now.” She was in town …

Dolly Parton is taking a break from writing music following the death of her husband, Carl Dean. When speaking on a Wednesday episode of Khloé Kardashian’s Khloé in Wonder Land podcast, the singer discussed the impact of songwriting and why she’s putting it on “hold” for now. “Everything begins with …