Follow all our Sean Combs trial coverage Sean Combs’ former personal assistant Mia took the stand for a second day Friday, telling jurors the music mogul terrorized her with onslaughts of hostile messages, threatened to “frame” his alleged sexual assaults of her as consensual, and once kicked her off a …
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Taylor Swift has regained control of her recorded music catalog six years after her old label, Big Machine Label Group, sold it to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings. The singer announced the purchase in a lengthy letter, writing, “All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.“ Swift announced …
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When rap fans decry the atomization of the genre, they usually focus on its negative aftereffects: a lack of crossover superstars, an irrevocable split between Gen-Z internet kids and boom-bap old heads, and a surplus of ephemeral trends geared towards meaningless virality. But the emergence of solo auteurs like Aesop …
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James Lowe, lead singer and principal member of the Sixties psychedelic band the Electric Prunes, has died at the age of 82. Lowe’s family announced on social media Thursday that he died “peacefully of natural causes” on May 22, surrounded “by music” and his family. “It is with heavy and …
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Thom Yorke temporarily walked offstage in October after a confrontation with a pro-Palestine heckler in Melbourne, Australia —now, six months later, he is attempting to clarify his views on the issue in a lengthy new post on Instagram. At the time, Yorke’s response to the heckler caused fans to speculate …
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Rome Streetz set a high bar with 2022’s Kiss The Ring. The Brooklyn-based MC’s star had been steadily rising since 2019’s Headcrack (with Futurewave), but Kiss The Ring is viewed by many as the crown jewel of his recent output. Whether it’s him getting off bars on “In Too Deep’s” …
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Taylor Swift finally revealed why we haven’t seen Reputation (Taylor’s Version) yet — are you ready for it? In a heartfelt letter to fans, Swift excitedly announced that she regained control of her music, purchasing her recordings from the investment firm Shamrock Capital. “I can’t thank you enough for helping …
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Ariana Grande will head from land of Oz to the marital chaos of the Fockers as the singer has landed a role in the upcoming Meet the Parents sequel. The Wicked star will appear on the big screen alongside the franchise’s stars Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro, with actresses Blythe …
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Miley Cyrus has spent her whole career mutating and evolving, making drastic musical left turns. She went from Hannah Montana to the indie-sleaze neon orgy that was Bangerz, the ultimate “Disney kid breaks free” statement. But that turned out to be just one of the many Mileys we’d get to …
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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 Miley Cyrus releases her disco-infused, Pink Floyd-influenced LP Something Beautiful, Lorde bares her truth in a cathartic song from her forthcoming Virgin, and Haim step back …
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