Onyeka Onwenu, who had a storied career across Nigerian entertainment, media, and politics, has died at age 72 in Lagos. The country’s president, Bola Tinubu, released a statement mourning the loss from his official X handle on July 31. Peter Obi, who ran for president against Tinubu in 2023 and …
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Soccer Mommy will ring in the fall season with the new album Evergreen, out Oct. 25 via Loma Vista Recordings. Sophie Allison previewed the record with the stunner “M.” Similar to her previous single “Lost,” the track shows Allison grappling with grief over stark chords and an uplifting, almost hopeful …
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It’s a Brat and Billie summer! On Thursday, Charli XCX and Billie Eilish released a remix for Charli’s song “Guess” that’s sending the internet into a frenzy. The pair also released a video that follows the stars at a steamy house party with underwear flying, playing on Charli’s lyric, “You …
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Five weeks after the three major record labels filed filed lawsuits against A.I. music startups Suno and Udio, accusing them of “trampling the rights of copyright owners,” Suno fired back Thursday in a legal filing, acknowledging that they trained their music-generating model on copyrighted music — while insisting that doing …
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The judges slot that Katy Perry left vacant upon her departure from American Idol has been filled with a familiar face. Carrie Underwood, who won the fourth season of the series nearly two decades ago, will join Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan as a judge on the upcoming season premiering …
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Metro Boomin launched a grant program for single mother non-profit organizations this week, the superstar producer announced, kicking off in conjunction with the start of his We Trust You North America Tour with Future in Kansas City on Tuesday. The new program, called the Leslie Joanne Single Moms Are Superheroesgrant …
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It’s taken a year since it was announced, but Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis’ adaptation of The Warriors is finally headed to Coney Island. But instead of stopping at Broadway — like you might expect from the Hamilton creator and Davis, who was a Pulitzer finalist for her play Bulrusher …
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Killer Mike‘s sixth solo album, 2023’sMichael,represented a new type of prestige rap release. Released 24 years after a debut verse on an album no less auspicious than Outkast’s Stankonia, this was a veteran artist taking stock, vividly drawing the lines between the struggling kid and the grateful, repentant adult. Over …
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After seven years of marriage, Cardi B has filed for divorce from Offset. According to Page Six, the petition was filed on July 31. It marks the second instance in which the Bronx rapper has sought to divorce the Migos member, having submitted a separate petition in September 2020 before …
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More than half a century after the release of the last MC5 album, 1971’s High Time, a new album masterminded by the group’s guitarist Wayne Kramer, who died in February, will come out this fall. The record, Heavy Lifting, includes two songs that feature original MC5 drummer Dennis “Machine Gun” …
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