Lizzo was honored with theBlack Music Action Coalition’s Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award on Thursday night. The singer, who is facing a series of accusations and lawsuits about her off-stage behavior, was pointedly joined by Lizzo’s Big Grrls onstage as she accepted the award. “Black Music Action Coalition, y’all really are …
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Kelly Clarkson enlisted her daughter River Rose for a special familial collaboration, “You Don’t Make Me Cry,” from the new deluxe edition of Clarkson’s latest album, Chemistry, out today, Sept. 22. River opens the track with a heavily auto-tuned vocal run, giving the song an early-2010s pop vibe that continues …
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Wesleyan University’s finest MGMT may finally be ready to release some new music. Andrew VanWyngarden, one-half of the ever-inventive synth-pop duo, popped by the MGMT subreddit yesterday to share a photo of a test pressing, on top of which he placed a banana. Maybe because he was about to get …
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Every musician knows that critical acclaim, number one hits, gold and platinum plaques, and measly Grammys mean absolutely nothing compared to the utterly sincere, irony-free, unexpectedly astute compliments of a child. Olivia Rodrigo got to experience this apex of pop stardom when she met one of her biggest fans, also …
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During Becky Milligan’s more than three decades as a journalist, she still remembers her encounter with a bottlenose dolphin, Freddie, that touched people in the British seaside town of Amble in the mid-1980s and 1990s. Freddie was all people talked about. Crowds waved and cheered from the pier as Freddie …
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Put on your cowboy boots and sombrero: Shakira is going the corridos route. On Wednesday, the Colombian superstar released her empowering corrido, titled “El Jefe,” alongside Fuerza Régida. The track follows the story of a man from a small town who dreams of getting out and becoming a “boss with …
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Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, has been sentenced by a federal judge in Los Angeles to serve house arrest after violating the terms of his three-year probation, according to a court order obtained by Rolling Stone. According to the document filed on Wednesday, Petty was recorded on video “making threatening …
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Angus Cloud died of an accidental overdose, Rolling Stone has confirmed. According to the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau, Cloud had fentanyl, cocaine, benzodiazepine, and methamphetamine in his system at the time of death. The actor suffered acute intoxication as a result of the lethal combination of drugs. The Euphoria star …
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Another former Lizzo employee has filed a lawsuit against the rapper, accusing her and her team of racial and sexual harassment, disability discrimination, illegal retaliatory termination, and assault. Asha Daniels, who worked as a wardrobe designer on Lizzo’s 2023 tour and helped design outfits for the rapper’s “Big Grrrl” dancers, …
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Estevie is bringing the cumbia norteñas of the early 2000s back. On Thursday, the Mexican-American star premieres the music video of her single “Como Yo” with Rolling Stone, ahead of the release of her debut EP, aptly titled Cumbialicious, out Friday. “Making cumbia is one of the best decisions I’ve …
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