All week long, a culture war has been raging around country star Jason Aldean‘s “Try That in a Small Town,” a turgid power ballad wrapped around an unsubtle warning to protesters and other outsiders: “Try that in a small town, see how far you make it down the road.” To …
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Noname has long held her third album close, but as its August 11 release approaches, she has shared the 11-song tracklist. She posted a spacey graphic on Instagram, with titles like “Black Mirror,” “Potentially the Interlude,” and “Gospel?” Its features include Common, Jay Electronica, Billy Woods, Eryn Allen Kane, Ayoni, …
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O n July 31, 2018, Danny Elfman, one of the most prolific and celebrated film and television composers of all time, entered into a settlement and nondisclosure agreement with a former friend and fellow composer. The agreement — previously unreported — came after she’d accused him of multiple instances of …
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The shows were over, but for Phil Kaufman, the headache was just beginning. Then the road manager for the Flying Burrito Brothers, one of the bands credited with finding the common ground between rock & roll and honky-tonk country, Kaufman had just returned home to Los Angeles, after some Burrito-related …
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Mark Ronson, the executive producer behind theBarbiesoundtrack, recently gave Dua Lipa fans a hint at her next album during an interview with Vulture. Along with Lipa, theOscar- and seven-time Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter worked with Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj x Ice Spice and more on the project. When …
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The search warrant served by Las Vegas Police on Monday in connection to the investigation into themurder of Tupac Shakur targeted Duane Keith Davis, 60, also known as “Keefy D” or “Keffe D,” NBC reports. According to the warrant obtained by the outlet, authorities searched Davis’ home, specifically looking at …
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Chicago rapper G Herbo has agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud and lying to federal agents after being indicted by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Massachusetts in 2020. G Herbo, born Herbert Wright, was accused along with five associates — including promotor Antonio Strong — of using stolen …
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Nas is back yet again. The rap icon recently took to Instagram to announce Magic 2 is dropping on Friday. Last week, he stirred anticipation for new music with an ominous purge of his page and a video of a thunderstorm. And now, we know for sure that his 16th …
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A$AP Rocky has rolled out “RIOT (Rowdy Pipe’n),” his first track since the release of “Same Problems.” The new single has fueled speculation that he and Rihanna have tied the knot, delivering the lyrics “My wife is erotic, I’m smokin’ exotic.” For the chorus, Rocky raps, “We grow, we learn …
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Slayyyter is in this in-between phase of her career: Sometimes people don’t have a clue who she is, but other times fans are begging for a picture. “It’s a funny place to be,” she tells Rolling Stone with a laugh. “I’m still myself, but I get to dip my toe …
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