Dave Grohl celebrated his 56th birthday by giving back to families affected by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires that have ripped through the city over the past week. The Foo Fighters frontman was seen on Tuesday stirring a large batch of chili among other volunteers at Feed the Streets, a …
Read More »The Weather Station Gets Sublimely Personal on 'Humanhood'
With her seventh album as the Weather Station, singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman gets dangerously close to making the 2020s version of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark that so many modern indie artists dream of coming up with. It’s an album that beautifully mixes pop, folk, rock,jazz, and ambient music, taking on …
Read More »Recording Academy Announces Grammy Week Changes Amid L.A. Fires
The Recording Academy has announced significant changes for its upcoming Grammy Week, canceling some of its industry events that would usually lead up to the Sunday awards while repurposing others to focus more heavily on relief efforts for the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles. “We understand how devastating this past …
Read More »Orville Peck Set to Make Broadway Debut in 'Cabaret'
Orville Peck will make his Broadway debut in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, replacing Adam Lambert as Emcee. Eva Noblezada will join Peck as the show’s Sally Bowles, replacing Auli‘i Cravalho. Cravalho and Lambert will hold their final performances March 29. “The Emcee has been my dream role since …
Read More »LiAngelo Ball's 'Tweaker' Is a Sign of Where Rap Might Be Heading
LiAngelo Ball is the first breakout rapper of 2025, though up until now, he was better known as a basketball player. Def Jam, who reportedly signed Ball to a record deal (including his own label) worth as much as $13 million, is betting on that dynamic changing. The hefty contract …
Read More »Ela Minus Learned to Call Her Own Bullshit — and Made Her Most Personal Album Yet
“Today is the first day of my life, I threw the match and set it all alight,” the Colombian electronic artist Ela Minu sings on a key track from her new abum DIA. The song, called “Onwards,” is archetypal Ela Minus: aggressive, combative, and sneering music wrapped in subdued soprano …
Read More »Drake Drops UMG, Spotify Legal Action Over 'Not Like Us'
Drake has withdrawn his legal petition against Universal Music Group (UMG) and Spotify after accusing the companies of colluding to discount the streaming licensing rates on Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” in exchange for increased audibility. In a New York filing on Tuesday obtained by Rolling Stone, Drake’s company Frozen …
Read More »TikTok Is About to Be Banned, So Bob Dylan Joined the App to See What the Fuss Is About
There’s a scene in A Complete Unknown where Bob Dylan shows up to a party late and leaves shortly after arriving. The biopic seems to have really captured his true essence, since he essentially just did the same with TikTok. The short-form video platform is expected to be banned in …
Read More »Céline Dion Shares Emotional Tribute to Late Husband René Angélil
Céline Dion paid tribute to her husband René Angélil on the ninth anniversary of his death. The singer shared a photograph of herself with their three sons on Instagram as she remembered the late music producer and manager, who died of throat cancer in 2016 at 73. “René, we can’t …
Read More »Country Stars — and the Village People — Line Up to Play Trump Inauguration Events
Jason Aldean, golfing buddy of Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago regular, the recently reunited 2000s country trio Rascal Flatts, and Texas singer Parker McCollum are among the country music artists performing at Washington, D.C., galas celebrating the incoming president — who is set to become the first convicted felon to hold …
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