Music

After splitting with their label late last year, K-pop stars NewJeans have revealed their new name, NJZ, CNN reports. The future of the five-member girl group has been somewhat up in the air since leaving ADOR, a subsidiary of the South Korean mega-label HYBE, and leveling allegations of misconduct and …

One month after the deadly wildfires broke out in Southern California, Weyes Blood‘s Natalie Mering took to social media to share her experience. “Hi earthlings,” Mering wrote on Instagram. “Emerging from my hibernation to pay tribute to my beautiful house in Altadena, California. I was displaced by the Eaton Fire …

Six months after Tenacious D canceled a tour and went on hiatus in the wake of Kyle Gass’ controversial comments about the Donald Trump assassination attempt, the duo reunited to contribute a song to a Los Angeles wildfire benefit compilation. The 90-track Good Music to Lift Los Angeles arrived on …

A$AP Rocky kicked off the long-awaited defense in his gun assault trial Friday with a star witness who says the alleged victim in the case, fellow A$AP Mob member A$AP Relli, was the repeated aggressor during the November 2021 shooting at the center of the case. Harlem rapper A$AP Twelvyy, …

Kanye West is tweeting again. Starting Thursday night, the once-noted musician took to his X account where he started spewing a lot of the same kind of antisemitic stuff that got him banned from the platform last time. There were also homophobic, misogynistic, and ableist posts — grim sign of …

Chappell Roan “put her money where her mouth is” and challenged the writer of the op-ed who criticized her Grammys speech to donate $25,000 to a fund supporting struggling artists who have been dropped by their label. At the Grammys Sunday, Roan used her Best New Artist acceptance speech to …

Sharon Van Etten isn’t the kind of songwriter who blends into a group. She’s always had an uncanny knack for making you feel utterly alone in the dark with her songs, even when you’re hearing them in broad daylight or singing them with a crowd. Who else would begin an …

Grammy champ Kendrick Lamar and Oscar hopeful Timothée Chalamet discussed their respective crafts in a new short conversation ahead of Lamar’s performance at the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. The NFL shared the three-and-a-half-minute video, which found Lamar and Chalamet driving around in a Buick GNX (the car that gave …

Brazilian superstar Anita offers fans a look at the two distinct parts of herself in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta. The clip fittingly jumps between footage of Anitta navigating the crazy world of pop stardom and quieter, more personal moments with the …

Giveon doesn’t necessarily regret the time and effort he put into building a relationship that didn’t amount to anything, but let’s just say it isn’t something he’s rushing to experience again. “Twenties,” his first lead single in nearly three years, is a reclamation of authority over the musician’s own journey. …