It’s been quite the year for Charli XCX. Brat has been out almost 12 months and remains in the Billboard Top 40. Her American tour included four sold-out nights at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, and a set of European shows starts next month. And she’s prepping to …
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Heavy-metal legends Judas Priest will be the focus of a career-spanning documentary co-directed by Tom Morello. The Rage Against the Machine guitarist will make his directorial debut with The Ballad of Judas Priest, which will arrive later this year via Sony Music Vision, Variety reports. Sam Dunn will serve as …
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Spotify House at CMA Fest has earned a reputation as the go-to spot for unexpected duets and surprise performances — and now it’s returning for a major milestone. On Wednesday, Spotify announced it will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its Hot Country playlist with the 2025 edition of Spotify House …
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Donald Trump‘s relentless practice of picking fights with musicians has allowed him to deflect focus and bury more important conversations about the failures of his administration. His more recent tirades have targeted the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift — but Neil Young has had enough of his distractions. …
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Salt-N-Pepa wants the rights to their music’s masters. On Monday, the rap duo — Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton — sued Universal Music Group (UMG), accusing the label of violating the Copyright Act by not allowing the musicians to reclaim control of their music’s intellectual property 35 years …
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Taylor Swift‘s “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version)” was unexpectedly featured in the most recent episode of the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale. The 2017 single, off Swift’s LP Reputation, has been rerecorded and revamped, showcasing a new vocal take from the pop singer. Swift’s song appears in …
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Shakira appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase her song “Antología,” offering an emotive performance in the midst of the late-night show audience. The Colombian musician revisited the 1996 song in an intimate, sing-along style, accompanied by her live band. “Antología” appeared on Shakira’s breakthrough album Pies Descalzos. The stripped …
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Lotti Golden wasn’t about to miss her big chance. At the age of 17, while still a senior at Canarsie High School in Brooklyn, she’d landed a staff songwriting job with Saturday Music, a song publisher in midtown Manhattan. But Golden had bigger ambitions. So, when her boss, Bob Crewe, …
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Follow all our Sean Combs trial coverage Sean Combs hired a former FBI agent to give lie-detector tests to his staff after some of his money and possessions went missing, his former assistant testified Tuesday in the mogul’s sex-trafficking trial. In his second day of testimony, David James alleged that …
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Yusuf/Cat Stevensis bringing his long-awaited memoir, Cat on the Road to Findout, on tour. The musician will discuss the project and perform stripped-down songs at intimate live events on the Cat On The Road To Findout—An Evening Of Tales, Tunes, And Other Mysteries book tour. “Having passed through the exhaustingly …
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