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Anitta will no longer perform at Coachella 2025. On Thursday, the Brazilian icon announced that she is stepping away from this year’s festival lineup over “unexpected personal reasons.” “I was really looking forward to being at Coachella this year, but due to unexpected personal reasons, I won’t be able to …

Saba and No ID are two legends of Chicago hip-hop, from two different generations. Saba is the cerebral rap poet who made his name with corrosively pained classics like 2018’s Care for Me and 2022’s Few Good Things. No ID, the “Godfather of Chicago Hip-Hop,” has spent his life making …

At this year’s just-concluded SXSW, hip-hop/pop artist Kimmortal was scheduled to play a showcase with other rising acts from Canada. About a month before, though, they heard the event had suddenly been canceled over concerns related to Donald Trump‘s escalating threats toward Canada, including tariff hikes. That meant Kimmortal, an …

A s soon as you hear their celestial harmonies, you need to find them. If you happened to be looking for them on a cold afternoon in February 2024, you would have found the band of four siblings sitting in the Rolling Stone offices, strumming acoustic guitars. Their layered voices …

There are five versions of Rachel Chinouriri on the cover of her debut album, What a Devastating Turn of Events. One is settled on the edge of a love seat in the front yard, scribbling notes into a journal. Another is carrying a few bags to the trash. A third …

In an era when more music is being released each day than in the entire year of 1989, according to one estimate, it takes a singular talent to cut through the noise. Enter Hanumankind, the curly-haired, tatted-up, India-born rapper who broke through last summer with his viral single “Big Dawgs,” …

Tina Knowles will embark on a nine-city tour this spring in support of her upcoming memoir titled Matriarch, out on April 22. The book launch will take place in Washington, D.C. on April 30 with former First Lady Michelle Obama sitting down with Knowles as the event’s moderator. “I’m still …

Before the viral Tiny Desk session that put them on the map last year as one of the most exhilarating acts in Latin music, the duo of childhood friends CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso toiled in obscurity for seven years, honing their craft in their native Buenos Aires with underground rock …

Nsqk owes a lot to a broken-down computer his uncle gave him when he was in middle school. “He had given me his old laptop with, like, Windows Vista on it,” the 26-year-old artist remembers with a laugh. “It barely worked.” Yet somehow, Nsqk — whose real name is Rodrigo …

Late last spring, Lorén Aldarondo was halfway through her shift waiting tables when her phone buzzed. It was her music manager, which puzzled her because he typically didn’t call when she was on the clock. Curious, she answered, and was told she needed to get on a conference call immediately. …