As musicians have set weekly or daily appointments for livestream performances to satisfy fans, BTS ARMY has had to settle for bits of content: a performance on James Corden here, some concert recordings from the vault there. Now, the superstar K-pop seven-piece has announced its first live concert from quarantine — but you’ll have to […]
Every pop musician worth their salt these days has a TikTok challenge for a song. (And some others make one anyway.) For Bad Bunny, that’s the Abuela Challenge, which became popular when quarantine began in March: Fans play his Missy Elliott–sampling banger “Safaera” for their Spanish-speaking grandmothers and watch for their reactions to his raunchy […]
Tekashi, Tekashi, Tekashi — that’s the only name that seems to be popping up since the polarizing rapper made his return on Friday (May 8) with “GOOBA.” The 24-year-old Brooklyn native knows it too. “GOOBA” broke a YouTube record for most streams within a 24-hour period and his Instagram Live session reeled in a record-breaking […]
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If you thought Axl Rose was gonna stop publicly taunting Steve Mnuchin and the Trump Administration, then you were sorely mistaken. After prompting the Treasury Secretary to confuse the U.S. and Liberia last week, Rose and his bandmates have simply refused to take their foot off of the White House’s proverbial neck. Guns N’ Roses […]
Beckett Cypher, Melissa Etheridge’s son with former partner Julie Cypher, has died of causes related to opioid addiction. He was 21. Etheridge’s team announced Cypher’s death on Wednesday evening her official Twitter account. “We’re sad to inform you that Melissa’s son Beckett passed away and there will not be a Concerts From Home show today,” […]
Black Thought and Questlove’s Two One Five Entertainment production company has signed a first-look deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio and Universal Television, which is a subsidiary of NBCUniversal Content Studios. The two have been a part of the NBC family since 2009 when The Roots became the house band for Jimmy Fallon’s talk show. […]
The ridiculousness on Blueface’s Instagram is grabbing more attention than his actual music these days. In his latest social media shenanigans, the West Coast rapper filmed his baby mama raging outside of his home and breaking one of his windows. Blueface posted multiple clips of her wild outburst on Instagram Stories. In a portion of […]
Future has joined in on the whirlwind of antics that have surrounded Tekashi 6ix9ine since his release from prison. In a tweet shared on Wednesday (May 13), the “Life Is Good” rapper praised Rich The Kid – without naming him out loud – after Rich was spotted on set of a music video in New […]
New York City, NY – After a lengthy hiatus following 2009’s Perkins’ 14, award-winning filmmaker Craig Singer is releasing his new horror film 6:45 this fall. A gripping psychological thriller that loosely follows the concept of Groundhog Day, the movie features an eclectic cast, including Hip Hop star Remy Ma. “It was fun,” Remy says of […]
Snoop Dogg added a new wrinkle to his already extensive résumé in music, earning his first Top 5 entry on the Hot Latin Songs chart. The West Coast legend’s “Que Maldición” collaboration with Banda MS de Sergio Lizárrga debuted at No. 4. “I’ve always been a fan of banda music, and the collab just felt […]
Hip-hop lost a visionary thinker and a lifelong tastemaker over the weekend in the late Andre Harrell, founder of the seminal hip-hop label Uptown Records, home to a number of the architects of the new-jack-swing revolution of the ’80s and ’90s and an integral stepping stone for black music icons like Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine is back like he never left. The controversial rap figure made his grand return on Friday (May 8) with a video for “GOOBA” and set a new YouTube record for the most streams in 24 hours, smashing a record previously held by Eminem. But evidently, he wasn’t done there. According to a press […]
Today’s distraction from the world’s impending doom came in the form of Entertainment Weekly’s Pride Month issue, which has a cover that can generously be described as “socially-distanced.” Rather than staging a photo shoot (which can still be done), the magazine ordered an illustration of a party featuring 18 past and present LGBTQ stars. And […]
While Rihanna has spent the pandemic saving the world, Ariana Grande is spending it like the rest of us — waiting for a new Rihanna album. “I’m really glad that she’s putting in so much effort. It means a lot,” Grande told Zane Lowe of the wait for R9, in an interview promoting her Justin […]
With this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony postponed until November due to the coronavirus pandemic (Cleveland in the late fall, what a treat), the powers that be decided to tide us over with some rock history in the meantime. As alerted to us by Consequence of Sound, over the past few […]
As the Verzuz platform heats up on Instagram Live, Swizz Beatz is brainstorming with his peers to come up with the next potential battle. During a recent Live conversation with Joe Budden for Beatz’s Zone Radio, the veteran producer threw around the idea of pitting Rakim against Big Daddy Kane in a “verses only” battle. […]
Charli XCX is levitating a couple of feet over a DJ booth. “My fans like pop music and poppers. Guess they really know what’s uppppp!” she drawls like an automaton with vocal fry. Air horns pierce through the torchlit rave dungeon. As she reaches the chorus of a new demo she’s calling “Gen- eration,” the […]
Following a very busy Mother’s Day, Future kept the ball rolling with a surprise announcement today that his new album, High Off Life, will drop this Friday, May 15. The album, which was originally titled Life Is Good after his chart-topping single with Drake, will feature Travis Scott, DaBaby, Young Thug, Meek Mill, NBA YoungBoy, […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine attempted to donate $200,000 to the No Kid Hungry nonprofit but was politely shut down. In a statement to RealStreetRadio, No Kid Hungry’s director of strategic communications Laura Washburn explained, “Our policy to decline funding from donors whose activities do not align with our mission and values.” Well, apparently 6ix9ine can’t wrap his around […]
Houston, TX – YoungBoy Never Broke Again‘s sold-out show at Houston’s Revention Music Center on March 6 was one of the city’s last concerts before the pandemic. Just hours after Austin’s SXSW was canceled — soon to be followed by festivals and concerts nationwide — the 20-year-old rapper turned up on stage with around 700 […]
Life really is good for Future and Drake. The pair’s collaborative track “Life Is Good” was officially certified four times platinum by the RIAA on Tuesday (May 12), just a little over four months since its release. View this post on Instagram #Drake and #Future’s “Life is Good” is now certified 4x platinum ???? A […]
Killer Mike and El-P — collectively known as Run The Jewels — have finally unveiled the release date and tracklist for their highly anticipated Run The Jewels 4 album. Boasting 11 tracks, the project features Greg Nice, DJ Premier, Zack de la Rocha, 2 Chainz, Pharrell Williams, Mavis Staples and Josh Homme. The album includes the […]
All YG was trying to do was honor the mother of his children Catelyn Sparks with an Instagram post on Mother’s Day. But instead, he was forced to defend Sparks after someone hopped in his comments section and compared her to Tekashi 6ix9ine. The Compton-bred rapper snapped back, “don’t get slapped my nigga,” which brought […]
For over a decade, Hayley Williams sold gale-force emotional reckoning as the lead singer of Paramore, one of the most successful bands on the forefront of the mainstream emo revolution of the middle aughts. Hard-charging riffs carried her sweeping vocals and incisive lyrics across the country, building the band’s profile through endless touring. Paramore stayed […]
Pioneering, flamboyant, eccentric — Little Richard was all these things, and then some. And just as his anarchic performances suggested, the late legend was just as wild away from the piano, living a life full of sex, drugs, spirituality, generosity, sex, bravado, kindness, and some more sex. The immediate outpouring following his May 9 death […]
Gucci Mane walked out of an Indiana federal penitentiary in 2016 after serving three years for federal drug and gun charges. Although he’s more than familiar with how rough prison can be, he’s vowed to never become a government witness in order to receive a lighter sentence à la Tekashi 6ix9ine. The 1017 boss made that […]
As the planet reels in anxiety and grief, Matty Healy sounds surprisingly calm, almost as if he’d expected this, or certainly hadn’t been entirely surprised by it. “It is a very, very odd time,” he says over the phone from the recording studio in the English countryside where he’s been quarantining with the drummer-producer George […]
Mary J. Blige is one of the numerous celebrities mourning the death of Uptown Records founder Andre Harrell. The longtime record exec passed away on Thursday (May 7) from heart failure at the age of 59. Harrell, who gave Sean “Diddy” Combs his start as an intern in the 1990s, also gave Blige her big […]
On Monday, singer Bryan Adams swung so wide with a coronavirus rant, he spun past concert cancellations, whizzed by “bat eating,” and landed on, of course, veganism. In an Instagram post lamenting the cancellation of his May shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall, the singer plays 1983’s “Cuts Like a Knife” and goes off on […]