Believe it or not, the 2023 VMAs have officially arrived. On Tuesday, the biggest names in music gathered for theMTV Video Music Awards to see who would take home the night’s top prizes. Swift led all nominees this year with eight, while SZA picked up six, and Doja Cat earned …
Read More »Poppy Mounts 'Motorbike' in Revved Up New Single
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. In her new pop anthem “Motorbike,” Poppy takes to the streets, and she is calling her fans to the dance floor. Unlike the metal performances that put her on the map, the club-ready single continues to present a new side to the multi-hyphenate. “That …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo Is So Over Heartbreak
O h, my God —look!” Olivia Rodrigo says. “I just parallel parked for you!” We’re sitting in Rodrigo’s black Range Rover in L.A.’s Highland Park, stopped outside her producer Dan Nigro’s home studio. Rodrigo has a killer late-July outfit on — short, summery floral dress; tall, brown leather boots; her …
Read More »Margo Cilker's First Album Was a Sleeper Hit. Now What?
Three years ago, Margo Cilker was starting to struggle. “To paint the picture,” she says, “I was in a super-weird place.” Living in rural Eastern Oregon, the singer-songwriter had spent the better part of the previous year trying to find a label to release Pohorylle, the debut album that she’d …
Read More »Grupo Frontera, Marc Anthony, Sofia Reyes to Perform at 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards
The 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards has unveiled a dozen new additions to its performance lineup ahead of the ceremony, scheduled to air live from Miami on Oct. 5 via Telemundo. Among them are Farruko, Marc Anthony, and Sofia Reyes, who join the lineup as veteran performers alongside nine artists …
Read More »Singing Billboards and Sydney Sweeney: Inside the Rolling Stones' 'Angry' Video
Music video director François Rousselet had to fake nearly 40 billboards on the Sunset Strip to create the Rolling Stones‘ new clip for “Angry,” the first single off their upcoming Hackney Diamonds album. Inspired by photographer Robert Landau’s 2016 book Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip — which …
Read More »Queen Latifah Leads Giants-Cowboys Game With Riveting National Anthem Performance
The New York Giants’ opening night didn’t exactly go as they hoped on Sunday, when they lost 40-0 in a game against the Dallas Cowboys. But the tri-state area still garnered a win when New Jersey-native Queen Latifah kicked off the night with a dazzling rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” …
Read More »Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Grandmaster Flash to Close 2023 MTV VMAs With Hip-Hop Tribute
MTV has planned a generation-spanning tribute performance in celebration of hip-hop‘s 50th anniversary for the 2023 Video Music Awards. On Tuesday night, the awards ceremony will conclude with a grand finale performance from Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, LL Cool J, Doug E. Fresh, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, and Grandmaster Flash and …
Read More »Zach Bryan Tops Album Chart for Second Consecutive Week
Zach Bryan‘s self-titled fourth album remains the Number One album on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart for a second consecutive week. With over 141 million streams according to Luminate, which powers the Billboard charts, it was the top streaming album of last week, and the album sold another 3,500 units. …
Read More »Maluma Catches a Crutch (and Dances With It) After Fan Throws It Onstage
I thought we were done throwing shit at artists? Over the weekend, a video of Maluma catching a crutch (that’s right, a crutch) midair while performing “Mojando Asientos” went viral. In the video, originally taken on Aug. 31 during a stop in Sacramento, Maluma is seen singing the Feid collab’s …
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