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J-Kwon, the rapper behind the 2004 earworm “Tipsy,” takes our Zoom call from his hometown of St. Louis, though he was just in Nashville the night before. He attended the ASCAP Country Music Awards, which celebrated the writers and publishers of the biggest songs in the genre – including Shaboozey’s …

Welcome to ourweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week Kendrick Lamar shakes the music world with a surprise album, Rosé slows it down in a soul-baring ballad, and Ariana Grande makes her dreams come true with a …

With no warning—and because he can—Kendrick Lamar dropped his new album GNX on Friday afternoon. The record takes its name after the 1987 Buick featured on the album’s cover, the same year Kendrick was born. The rapper behind the biggest song of the year, who may be responsible for the …

Pop music has been full of surprising success stories this year, but none have been more surprising than Addison Rae emerging as a cult icon, despite only having a few singles under her belt. The OG TikTok dance star kicked off her pop career in 2021 with no major label …

T here’s no mistaking Echo Mars for anything but a rock star. It’s in the way they carry themselves through the world, with a quick, confident step and a starchild aura that evokes Bolan, Bowie, and multiple characters from the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine. It’s in their ink — DRAMA …

Cody Johnson is standing just a few feet away from thousands of fans inside a sold-out arena, tuning them all out. While the crowd inside Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center reaches a fever pitch on a recent November night, awaiting Johnson’s first steps into the spotlight, one of the least likely …

With his eighth studio album, Chromakopia, Tyler, the Creator has secured his longest-running streak atop the album charts, staying there for three consecutive weeks so far. The 33-year-old rapper and producer announced the accomplishment during his headlining set at the music festival he started, Camp Flog Gnaw, which celebrated its …

This week, Cher unveiled Cher: The Memoir, Part One. The hefty book details the first half of the icon’s life, while the second half will be recounted in the upcoming Part Two. The book is as raw and unfiltered as one would expect from Cher. She doesn’t hold back on …

Robert Earl Keen knew the question was coming, so he answered it without a prompt. “My primary purpose in life is not only writing some songs and playing guitar,” Keen says, “but the magical part is actually putting that music out there in the world, and getting to perform.” Keen …

Even as it faces a lawsuit from the recording industry for using countless copyrighted songs to train its music-generating AI model, Suno has become the fifth most-used generative-AI service in the world — and the company is still pushing its technology forward. A new, notably more realistic model, V4, is …