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Drake has formalized his contentious battle against Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us” by going after Universal Music Group, filing a defamation and harassment lawsuit against the major music conglomerate on Wednesday. The Canadian-born rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, claims UMG “unleashed every weapon in its …

Bad Bunny doesn’t want to leave Puerto Rico — he proclaimed as much on his LP Un Verano Sin Ti as well as on his latest album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Earlier this week, the Latin star announced a 21-show residency at the iconic “El Choli” Coliseo de Puerto Rico, …

Nashville is reaching peak Ringo. On the heels of his new country album, Look Up, Ringo Starr will make his Grand Ole Opry debut next month. The former Beatles drummer was invited to perform on the long-running country-music radio show by Emmylou Harris, herself an Opry member. Harris popped the …

Peter Forrest — who, as P. Fluid, was lead singer and frontman of the pioneering Black rock band 24/7 Spyz — has died at the age of 64. On Jan. 14th, Forrest’s body was found badly beaten in the back of an abandoned ambulette bus in the Bronx. Forrest, who …

Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory will release their self-titled debut album in just over three weeks. In the meantime, the band has previewed the record once more with “Trouble,” the latest single released alongside a live performance video captured live at the Church Studios in London. “’Trouble’ is …

Dave Grohl celebrated his 56th birthday by giving back to families affected by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires that have ripped through the city over the past week. The Foo Fighters frontman was seen on Tuesday stirring a large batch of chili among other volunteers at Feed the Streets, a …

With her seventh album as the Weather Station, singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman gets dangerously close to making the 2020s version of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark that so many modern indie artists dream of coming up with. It’s an album that beautifully mixes pop, folk, rock,jazz, and ambient music, taking on …

The Recording Academy has announced significant changes for its upcoming Grammy Week, canceling some of its industry events that would usually lead up to the Sunday awards while repurposing others to focus more heavily on relief efforts for the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles. “We understand how devastating this past …

Orville Peck will make his Broadway debut in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, replacing Adam Lambert as Emcee. Eva Noblezada will join Peck as the show’s Sally Bowles, replacing Auli‘i Cravalho. Cravalho and Lambert will hold their final performances March 29. “The Emcee has been my dream role since …

LiAngelo Ball is the first breakout rapper of 2025, though up until now, he was better known as a basketball player. Def Jam, who reportedly signed Ball to a record deal (including his own label) worth as much as $13 million, is betting on that dynamic changing. The hefty contract …