Kelsea Ballerini is almost like an honorary Jonas sister. Just a handful of years after opening for the group on their 2021 tour, the country star joined Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas for a pair of performances during the group’s show in Dallas on Sunday. “We had the wonderful pleasure …
Read More »Drake Talks Swedish Jail, Fake Abs, and Friendship Breakups With Bobbi Althoff
It appears that all is well between Drake and Bobbi Althoff. The podcast host and content creator went viral in 2023 when Drizzy appeared on her show, The Really Good Podcast, setting off a spree of other rapper interviews — including Lil Yachty, YG, and Offset — as well as …
Read More »Blood Orange Mourns Beautifully on 'Essex Honey'
“As exciting as watching trees sprout” is decidedly a pejorative idiom. Still, it’s somehow the perfect way to describe these elegiac bops. Indeed, Devonté Hynes, on his fifth studio LP as Blood Orange, manages to make life’s contemplative moments seem urgent, celestial, and rehabilitative. No actual trees sprout on the …
Read More »Miguel Embraces the 'Caos' on First New Album in Eight Years
Miguel has finally announced his long-awaited fifth album, Caos, with the LP set to arrive Oct. 23 — also the musician’s 40th birthday — via ByStorm Entertainment/RCA Records. Along with announcing Caos, Miguel soft-released the album’s new single and title-track. The song hasn’t been given a wide release just yet, …
Read More »Cardi B Wins at Civil Assault Trial Brought by Security Guard: 'I'm Super Completely Innocent'
Cardi B won the debate. And the trial too. A week after going viral for calling her witness-stand interrogation a “debate,” not an “altercation,” the Grammy-winning rapper was handed a resounding victory at her civil trial over claims she physically assaulted a security guard she accused of filming her. Jurors …
Read More »Liam Payne's Cousin Ross Harris Honors Late Singer With Emotional Song 'Bones'
Ross Harris is honoring his cousin Liam Payne with a new song. On Sunday, the musician released “Bones,” a track he wrote in tribute to Payne about the difficulties of dealing with grief. “I’ve been back and forth about releasing this song a dozen times. It’s the most personal thing …
Read More »Fifth Harmony Reunite After 7 Years During Jonas Brothers Concert
Fifth Harmony are back! On Sunday night, the iconic girl group reunited after seven years to join the Jonas Brothers onstage during their concert in Dallas. Normani, Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane, and Lauren Jauregui — in matching black outfits — emerged from behind smoke to the tune of “Worth It,” …
Read More »Sting vs. the Police: Their Never-Ending War Over 'Every Breath You Take'
Everybody knows “Every Breath You Take.” It’s the biggest hit the Police ever had, one of the most famous tunes of the Eighties. It spent 8 weeks at Number One in the classic pop summer of 1983. In 2019, BMI officially proclaimed it “the Most Played Song in radio history,” …
Read More »Asleep at the Wheel Still Have That Texas Swing
When Asleep at the Wheel decided to record a record of Texas-centric songs to commemorate the Western swing outfit spending 50 of its 55 years in the Lone Star State, Ray Benson had a simple request: “Let’s just do songs about Texas that mean something to you.” The result is …
Read More »Banjo Reigns Supreme at 2025 Earl Scruggs Music Festival
Underneath a fingernail moon and the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Oliver Wood stood onstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival and declared, “This one goes out to Earl.” The Wood Brothers’ lead singer then delivered a moving version of “Postcards from Hell,” off their …
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