Laila! has flourished more in the year leading up to her 19th birthday than some artists do in decades. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and producer first broke through on TikTok with spacey viral ditties “Like That” and “Not My Problem,” showing her intrinsic ear for R&B’s current wave and its off-center …
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Limp Bizkit’s $200 million lawsuit against Universal Music will head to trial after a federal judge denied the label’s motion to dismiss the case. Fred Durst and company sued UMG — the world’s largest record company — in October 2024 in one of the most notable lawsuits of the year …
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Chef and actor Matty Matheson, known for playing Neil on The Bear, announced he has launched a new band. “A few old friends got together a couple years ago and wrote and recorded 10 songs over 2 days,” Matheson wrote on Instagram along with a clip of a song. “We …
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Egyptian artist TUL8TE doesn’t want you to know anything personal about him. He is here to make you listen — not to his story, but to his music. We spoke over a camera-less Zoom call in December, around 4 p.m. Jordan time, while he was mid-tour. Any question that veered …
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Philadelphia singer-songwriter Shamir has dropped a new song, “Neverwannago,” from their final solo album, Ten, which will arrive this spring via Kill Rock Stars. For their swan song, Shamir (who uses he/she/they pronouns) decided to honor the many friends who’ve helped, supported, and shaped their musical journey. The album comprises …
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John Legend commemorated the 20th anniversary of his debut album Get Lifted in November, with a guest-packed, expanded reissue of the record, and now he’s taking it on the road with his Get Lifted 20th anniversary world tour. The 40-city global trek kicks off in Glasgow on May 27, followed …
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It would be too easy to shunt indie-pop idea machine Japanese Breakfast’s records into categories — here’s the sad one, the science fiction one, the happy one — especially given the title of her latest, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women). It’s spelled out in the title, right? Not quite. …
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Ed Sheeran popped up at a Boston Irish pub to perform a surprise acoustic set in front of a celebratory St. Patrick’s Day crowd on Monday night. The British singer-songwriter was backed by a fiddle and an accordion, in addition to other band members of the Irish folk band Beoga …
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When Jesse Colin Young’s death was announced on Monday, it was inevitable that “Get Together” — the peace-and-brotherhood anthem that he and the Youngbloods turned into a decades-long radio staple —would be mentioned first. Young neither wrote it nor was the first to record it. But even after it’s been …
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Elton John and Brandi Carlile‘s upcoming concert in London will be filmed for television. On Tuesday, CBS announced An Evening With Elton John and Brandi Carlile, a concert special set to air on the network and Paramount+ on April 6. GET: PARAMOUNT+ 7-DAY FREE TRIAL The special celebratingthe musicians’ collaborative …
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