Music

Peso Pluma is linking up with Duki once again thanks to Nigo. Over the weekend, the Bape founder released the video for his single “Alley Oop,” which hears the Mexican corridos star and Argentine rapper collaborating once again after joining Santa Fe Klan on “No Son Klle.” The AWGE-directed music …

Cyndi Lauper has announced the final leg of her “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” farewell tour, which will kick off this summer. The 25-date trek will start July 15 at the Darien Lake Amphitheater in Buffalo, New York and wrap with a two-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl in Los …

Bomba Estéreo and Rawayana are taking their supergroup Astropical — and subsequently their self-titled debut collaborative album — on tour. The two groups will share the stage for 16 shows across North America beginning in May. The Astropical tour will kick off on May 24 in Montreal and extend through …

Lauryn Hill brought out surprise guest Doechii to perform “Doo Wop (That Thing)” at the Fugees singer’s concert Saturday in Miami. During her set at the Jazz in the Gardens Music Festival, Hill told the crowd, “I want to introduce y’all to another sistah” before welcoming the Grammy-winning rapper — …

How does a truly terrible song end up an otherwise flawless album? Blame ego-appeasing band-politics concessions, drug-fueled studio experiments, songwriters working through a few too many personal demons, and artists who just ran out of songwriting steam a little too soon. Or maybe it all comes down to bad judgment. …

Katy Perry reteamed with Rebecca Black last night, and their joining forces is looking to last through Lifetimes — as in Perry’s so-named tour. Black, who appeared in Perry’s 2011 video for “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” was at her Salvation tour stop at El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles Saturday …

Lady Gaga released Mayhem on Friday and the pop star discussed how getting back to her early sounds, an amalgamation of “the music that helped me fall in love with music,” felt right despite her having some “fear” about doing so in a new interview with The New York Times. …

Lady Gaga returned as Saturday Night Live musical guest with lively performances of two tracks from her brand new album. Gaga, who also hosted the show, opened with the dance-pop “Abracadabra,” the second song off of Mayhem, which Rolling Stone‘s Brittany Spanos reviewed as “the year’s strongest pop release yet.” …

Lady Gaga joked about aging, her ill-fated 2013 Saturday Night Live performance, Joker 2 and getting engaged as host and musical guest of the latest episode of SNL. “I’m so excited to be here. I know you might be thinking I’m here to promote my album, Mayhem, but I’m actually …

Mastodon announced Friday that the band and guitarist Brent Hinds, who co-founded the Atlanta metal act a quarter-century ago, have parted ways. “Friends and Fans, After 25 monumental years together, Mastodon and Brent Hinds have mutually decided to part ways,” the band wrote on social media. “We’re deeply proud of …