Normani has a new management team and music on the way. Rolling Stone has learned that the former Fifth Harmony member is now being managed by Brandon Creed (Charli XCX, Troye Sivan) and Lydia Asrat (Coco Jones, others) after parting ways from S10 Entertainment’s Brandon Silverstein in May. “With new …
Read More »17-Year-Old Tricks Millions Into Thinking He Sold His House to See Travis Scott's Utopia
Charles Curle, a video editor and high schooler from North Carolina, duped millions of people online into thinking that he sold his house to finance a trip to Travis Scott‘s now-cancelled Utopia concert in Egypt. The 17-year-old says it all started with a meme. Following Scott’s announcement that he’d be …
Read More »Tomorrow x Together Bring Cheer, Pusha T Delivers Dope Set on Lollapalooza 2023 Day 3
The third day of Lollapalooza 2023 highlighted the big presence of several South Korean acts this year, including Tomorrow x Together headlining for the first time on Saturday (they performed earlier in the day in 2022) and the fest also featured its first-ever K-pop girl group NewJeans on Thursday, marking …
Read More »Kendrick Lamar Goes Minimalist for Maximum Effect, the 1975 Play the Hits at Day 2 of Lollapalooza
Like the first day of Lollapalooza 2023, Day Two featured competing headliners that vied for some 100,000+ people’s attention. On one side was the 1975, whose frontman Matty Healy has been making headlines, and on the other was one of the greatest rappers of all time, Kendrick Lamar. Unlike Thursday, …
Read More »Billie Eilish Gets Bullish, Karol G Makes History, and More of the Best Things We Saw on Lollapalooza 2023's First Day
Lollapalooza 2023‘s opening day kicked off on Thursday in Chicago’s Grant Park, and it was a scorcher, thanks to artists bringing the heat and the sweltering humidity. The festival inked a 10-year contract with the city last year, and it came with the expansion in capacity, up from 100,000 people …
Read More »How Much of 'Utopia' Came From Ye?
One of the prevailing observations of Travis Scott’s Utopia album has been how much it sounds like a Ye West project. Listeners have called out the bevy of features, momentous beat switches, and sparse, reverbed landscapes as noticeable effects of being around Ye as much as Travis has. Chance The …
Read More »Doja Cat, Halle Bailey, Bebe Rexha and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to our weekly rundown of thebest new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Doja Cat gets ruthless, Halle Bailey shines in her debut solo single, and Bebe Rexha and David Guetta bring us back to the 2010s with a dance-pop …
Read More »Taylor Swift Is Helping Truck Drivers Buy First Homes With $100,000 Bonuses
Mike Scherkenbach, who runs a transportation company, has worked on several of Taylor Swift‘s tours over the years. In the time he’s worked with the singer, he says he’s always known her to be generous to her crew — but the $100,000 bonuses she gave to each of his drivers …
Read More »Phoebe Bridgers Remembers Sinéad O'Connor: 'It's Abuse to Be Told to Shut Up and Sing'
Phoebe Bridgers wasn’t born yet whenSinéad O’Connor decided to bring attention to the cause of child abuse by ripping up a photo of the pope on Saturday Night Live in 1992. Years later, though, Bridgers learned about O’Connor’s music, life, and beliefs, and she went on to cover “Black Boys …
Read More »Turnpike Troubadours Had a Triumphant Reunion — Followed by Kyle Nix's Own Tortured Breakup
If listening to After the Flood Vol. 1 leaves you heartbroken, just know that Kyle Nix was heartbroken when he wrote it. “I used a paper and pen for therapy,” says Nix, the multifaceted instrumentalist and frontman of Kyle Nix and the 38’s, of writing the album’s 14 tracks — …
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