Music

Foo Fighters are performing a front-row, VR show on Super Bowl Sunday. After the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals play in the big game, the Dave Grohl-fronted band will throw an immersive, 180-degree VR concert on Meta. Featuring a custom-made stage, the Horizon Venues-hosted performance will see Foo …

Two weeks after kicking off the revolt against Spotify due to Joe Rogan‘s vaccine misinformation, Neil Young is taking aim at CEO Daniel Ek. “To the musicians and creators in this world, I say this: You must be able to find a better place than Spotify to be the home …

Neil Young saw a big boost in music streams and sales even after he pulled his music from Spotify in protest of the Covid-19 misinformation being shared on The Joe Rogan Experience. Young’s numbers have been rising steadily for two weeks now, according to MRC Data (formerly Nielsen Soundscan). The …

Legendary Bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar, “the Nightingale of India,” died Sunday at the age of 92. The prolific voice behind Indian film and devotional songs had been battling a Covid-19 infection since early January in the ICU of Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, Times of Indiareports. While it was reported …

Danny Ocean got rid of the hat, let his hair grow out, and sports some leather in the visualizer for his newest single “Istanbul.” The track serves as a new taste of the “darker Danny” he hopes to showcase on his album @Dannocean by Danny Ocean, out Feb. 17. Ocean …

Jennifer Lopez and Maluma stopped by The Tonight Show Friday to showcase a ballad version of the title track from their new film, Marry Me. In the film, Lopez’s Kat Valdez discovers her fiancé, fellow pop star Bastian (played by Maluma in his debut movie role) is cheating on her …

The year was 1998. Google was incorporated. Mark McGwire broke the single-season home run record. Viagra was approved by the FDA. And Outkast — two rappers named André 3000 and Big Boi from Atlanta, Georgia — dropped their incredible album Aquemini,featuring the iconically laid-back track, “SpottieOttieDopaliscious.” “It’s about that fly …

Ten years ago, Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz made it big with mainstream trap production, luxurious rhymes about champagne on airplanes, and non-sequitur punchlines. Chainz was a rapper who could out-rap legends, but his music wasn’t necessarily expansive: There wasn’t the flurry of topics, motifs, sequences, or tics you’d get from …

Two weeks before the streaming premiere of Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, Netflix has shared the latest trailer for the in-depth, decades-spanning documentary about the rapper. “Act 1” of the three-part series arrives Feb. 16, and the two-minute preview covers much of the ground that will feature in the debut episode, …

UPDATE: Kanye West fired back at Kim Kardashian as the estranged couple continued to spar online over a TikTok video featuring their daughter, North. “What do you mean by main provider?” West wrote on Instagram, questioning Kardashian’s claim in her note that she was serving as the “main provider and …