Louis Tomlinson‘s self-curated Away From Home Festival is heading stateside. Launched in 2021, the event finds a new location to call home each year. This time around, New York is the lucky place. Tomlinson will headline the event scheduled for Oct. 4 and 5 atBrewery on Ommegang in Cooperstown, New …
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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Doja Cat raps over Eighties synth-pop in the first preview of her forthcoming LP, Florence + the Machine returns with a bold Banshee yell, and BigXThaPlug adds …
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The Prince estate has rebuffed a recent lawsuit filed by singer, songwriter, and Prince music Apollonia over the rights to her name, saying, “As is our duty, we will continue to protect and preserve Prince’s assets and legacy.” In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, Patricia Apollonia Kotero said the …
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Shoegaze-influenced band Hotline TNT has become the latest in a series of musicians to pull their music from Spotify. In a statement posted to the group’s Instagram, founder Will Anderson wrote: “We are leaving the Spotify streaming service. The company that bills itself as the steward of all recorded music …
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On “Back in the Mode,” a smooth banger on his stellar new album Kiari, Offset admits, ”Lost a bitch last year and got another one,” making it clear that he feels like getting more than a few things off his chest. Having suffered a public divorce from Cardi B last …
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Sombr has New York City under his spell. The 20-year-old had jusr stepped onto a stage assembled on Canal Street to the sound of piercing screams. His debut album I Barely Know Her was scheduled for release in a few hours, but the musician wanted the first introduction of these …
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M arcus Brown is eyeballing the couch in the corner of the listening room at XL Recordings’ SoHo office in New York. After observing the stitching on the leather and checking out the chrome framing, he quickly asks his publicist if it’s for sale. “My apartment kind of sucks,” Brown, …
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5 Seconds of Summer frontman Luke Hemmings and songwriter Sierra Deaton have welcomed their first child together. On Instagram, the couple offered a glimpse into their private life as they shared a carousel of images celebrating their baby girl. “Our best kept secret,” they captioned the post. “Written and Produced …
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When listening to Escape Room, Teyana Taylor’s fourth studio album — which announces her return to music since retiring in 2020 — it’s as if she took a page from Toni Morrison’s classic novel Beloved. Morrison wrote, “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another,” …
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Rauw Alejandro is facing a new lawsuit accusing him of not obtaining licenses for samples of several songs by reggaeton pioneer DJ Playero across his 2022 album, Saturno. Notably, the lawsuit was not brought by DJ Playero — who actively collaborated with Alejandro on Saturno — but BM Records, a …
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