Los Bukis are standing with their immigrant fan base — and using one of their biggest career moments to honor them. On Wednesday, the Marco Antonio Solis-fronted group unveiled their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and used their speech to speak up for the people who “constructed our …
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Are you ready to tie the knot? Lucy Dacus has announced that she will act as the wedding officiant for fans on her upcoming tour, which kicked off July 25 in Philadelphia. Dacus initially floated the idea over the weekend, suggesting she could help people wed during the Forever Is …
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Kelly Clarkson is the latest artist to sell a stake in her catalog to private equity. HarbourView Equity Partners has acquired a portion of her life’s works. The acquisition was announced on Thursday. HarbourView will now own a portion of Clarkson’s biggest hits, including “Since U Been Gone” and “Because …
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Hayley Williams shared a new song, titled “Mirtazapine,” on Tuesday night on Nashville radio station WNXP. The track, named for a common antidepressant, is a mid-tempo, shoegazey rock number that sees the Paramore singer unleashing her signature howling vocals. Williams posted a fuzzy photo of a bottle of Mirtazapine on …
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The nonprofit organization Free Our Art is partnering with elected officials, educators, and music industry organizations to combat the criminalization of rap. Together, they’re advocating for the federal Restoring Artistic Protection Act (or R.A.P. Act) bill, which was reintroduced to the House today, and aims to “limit the admissibility of …
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The Michael Jackson biopic, originally set for release in April 2025 but delayed by a potentially litigious third act, will now arrive a year later in April 2026. The Antoine Fuqua-directed Michael, starring the late singer’s nephew Jaafar Jackson as the King of Pop, initially wrapped shooting in May 2024, …
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At 40, J Balvin has nothing left to prove — he already has iconic albums like 2018’s Vibras and 2010’s Colores under his belt. Still, earlier this month, a few days after performing at the halftime show of the FIFA Club World Cup final in New Jersey, the Colombian star …
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Margaret Qualley is used to embodying larger than life characters on screen. Now, she has a musical alter ego in the form of Lace Manhattan. With help from her Grammy-winning producer husband Jack Antonoff as well as Oscar-winning director Ethan Coen, Lace Manhattan will have two new songs featured in …
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Hayden Anhedönia has had full creative control over the life and times of Ethel Cain, the driving vehicle of her musical output. Her upcoming album Willoughby Tucker is the latest extension of the Ethel Cain universe and operates as a prequel to her previous release Preacher’s Daughter. It takes place …
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The roots of hip-hop run deep, and among the deepest branches remains Linton Kwesi Johnson, the Jamaican-born, British-raised poet, writer, and performer often hailed as the father of dub poetry. On his groundbreaking dub records of the Seventies and Eighties, Johnson, talk-singing in Jamaican patois, channeled the racism he encountered …
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