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There is only one existing pressing of Wu-Tang Clan‘s ultra-rare recording Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. The album was recorded in secret over the course of six years and sold to Martin Shkreli for $2 million in 2015, then to the digital art collective PleasrDAO for twice as much …

I t’s a cloudy May afternoon in New York’s Greenwich Village as Grace Cummings saunters down Jones Street. The Melbourne–based singer-songwriter, who titled her new album Ramona after Bob Dylan’s “To Ramona,” then pauses positively at West Fourth Street for a photo in the same spot where Dylan posed with …

Fresh off their first show together in 14 years, the classic lineup of Jane’s Addiction are ready for more, announcing a co-headlining North American tour with Love and Rockets that will kick off this summer. The 23-date trek will launch Aug. 9 at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas and wrap …

The Offspring‘s “Come Out and Play” (you know, the “gotta keep ’em separated” song) was all over MTV in 1994 — with a video that cost all of $5,000. The Nineties were full of unlikely breakthrough acts, but the Offspring were one of the few bands of the era who …

A year after hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, and only a few weeks after Kendrick Lamar’s feud with Drake culminated in a chart-topping track where he calls Drake a “colonizer,” the hottest topic on the rap internet right now is a white kid from St. Louis rapping over vintage-sounding Atlanta rap beats. …

Dua Lipa is continuing her advocacy for a ceasefire in Gaza. After dozens of Palestinianswere killed by Israeli air strikeson displacement camps in SouthernGaza, Lipa shared a post on Instagram calling for an end to “Israeli genocide.” “Burning children alive can never be justified,” the Radical Optimism musician wrote Tuesday. …

Years & Years has officially been disbanded as Olly Alexander steps away from being the synth-pop project’s sole remaining member. During a recent performance under his own name at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, the singer and songwriter told the audience: “I used to be in Years & Years, I …

Coldplay saved their best surprise for last when the band brought out Sabrina Carpenter during their closing show at Radio 1’s Big Weekend Festival on Sunday. Carpenter joined the band for a performance of the Ghost Stories track “Magic.” “We’ve been playing this, one Big Weekend since we were basically …

Ariana Grande debuted an unsettling teaser Monday for “The Boy is Mine,” the eighth track on her latest album Eternal Sunshine. In the 10-second clip posted to Instagram, a man turns on a faucet and plunges his face in the sink, as a grisly hand with opaque claws pries open …

Although she didn’t end up topping the charts, Billie Eilish just earned her biggest week ever on the Billboard Top 200. Hit Me Hard and Soft landed on Number Two on the charts this week, just behind Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department. According to Billboard, Eilish’s 339,000 equivalent album units …