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The last time Taylor Swift released an album, Midnights, she surprised everyone by dropping a 3 A.M. Edition later that night, loaded with new songs. But it turns out that this time, 3 hours was too damn long for her to wait. At 2 A.M. last night, with no warning …

On a warm afternoon in March, I meet the members of the band Laundry Day at a studio space in Brooklyn as they rehearse their latest single, “Why Is Everyone a DJ?,” a raucous rock ballad about the epidemic of DJs hitting the nation. It’s the night before they head …

Nicki Minaj held nothing back for the new “Sleeze Mix” remix of her hit, “FTCU,” enlisting Travis Scott, Sexyy Red, and Chris Brown for the track. The remix absolutely lives up to its sleazy billing, with all three guests delivering verses that are boisterous, graphic, and horny as hell. Sexxy …

In the summer of 1968, months after the releases of We’re Only in It for the Money and Lumpy Gravy and a few months ahead of the release of Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention found time for a five-hour concert on the …

Three decades ago, Nas and DJ Premier teamed up for a run of songs on the rapper’s acclaimed debut album Illimatic. In the time since, both have become hip-hop legends in their own right. But later this year, Nas and DJ Premier will go all-in on their first full-length collaborative …

With a few lines in a guest verse on Future and Metro Boomin‘s chart-topping hit “Like That,” Kendrick Lamar ignited his long-simmering cold war with Drake into what’s become the widest-reaching rap beef in years. Since then, it’s all gotten incredibly messy, starting with J. Cole recording an entire diss …

In rare footage of Elton John from half a century ago, the Hornet is back — and he looks like quite a festive hornet at that. The artist recently rediscovered the film of the piano-buzzing debut performance of “The Bitch Is Back” from the Watford FC Benefit Concert on May …

Taylor Swift‘s Tortured Poets Department is on pace for a massive opening, and in under 24 hours, the album already beat the record for most streams in a single day on Spotify, the service confirmed on Friday. The record has over 200 million streams already, Spotify said, and Swift now …

It must be the season of the diss, and not even Taylor Swift is immune — and we’re not even talking about ex-boyfriends. The expanded Anthology edition of The Tortured Poets Department features a track, “thanK you aIMee,” that many fans are interpreting as a diss track aimed at Kim …

It’s a little after midnight on the opening night of Phish‘s sold-out run at the Sphere, and the northern lights are shining bright over Sin City. “Never ever saw the northern lights,” Trey Anastasio sang during the group’s encore of “Farmhouse.” “I never really heard of cluster flies/I never saw …