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Halsey took aim at record labels and the media in a new interview centered around her latest album “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.” The singer-songwriter, who uses she/they pronouns and recently welcomed their first child, said that they had to run their pregnancy by music executives, who care more about profits than

Just hours after Drake finally, officially announced the release date for his long-awaited forthcoming “Certified Lover Boy” album — which apparently has a cover featuring several emoji-type images of pregnant women — Lil Nas X jumped in by posting a similar one for his long-awaited forthcoming “Montero” album… except with pregnant men. “MONTERO” THE ALBUM

GaTa doesn’t want to be the greatest rapper; he just wants to be great. “My whole thing is progress, not perfection. Nothing happens overnight,” he tells Variety. “That’s why I grew dreadlocks, so I can see the progress, baby!” The hype man turned rapper turned actor got his start working with Tyga and Lil Wayne,

Evan Rachel Wood is not a fan of the new Kanye West project, and she had a song of her own — and a digit to go with it — to offer her response. The singer-actor performed the New Radicals classic “You Get What You Give” during an impromptu performance at Hollywood’s Bourbon Room Saturday

Kacey Musgraves will be bringing the sadcore to arenas early next year, as dates for an arena tour dubbed “Star-Crossed: Unveiled” in January and February 2022 have been unveiled. The AEG Presents-promoted outing is described as a “limited” headlining tour and, with only 15 cities initially on the agenda, is likely to be augmented by

City of Hope has announced the honorees for its upcoming Songs of Hope virtual gala. Smokey Robinson will receive Clive Davis’ Legend in Songwriting award while Hildur Guðnadóttir will be honored with the EA Music Composer of the Year award. The Sony Music Publishing Creative Trailblazer award will go to Daniel Nigro and Warner Chappell

After months of rumors and delays, one official false alarm, a strange ESPN teaser, and release-date battle with Kanye West’s “Donda” that never happened, Drake has confirmed in unambiguous terms that his long-awaited sixth full-length album “Certified Lover Boy” will finally be out on Friday. The post includes what may be the album’s cover: little

Not so long ago, composers doing “genre” material — horror, science fiction, fantasy — saw an Oscar or Emmy nomination as a longshot, namely because voters didn’t seem to take those projects seriously. But times have changed. Six of the 11 nominees in Emmy’s two narrative-fiction music categories have some element of sci-fi, fantasy or

“God’s not finished,” Kanye West sings repeatedly at the end of one of his new songs, “24.” Being made in God’s image, West very much relates to that; he doesn’t like being done with things, either. Yet here we have the miracle, a true, blue spectacle, of a finished “Donda,” the album that until this

Kanye West is claiming that Universal Music Group, parent company to the label Def Jam, released his new album “Donda” without his approval. In an Instagram post on Sunday — just hours after the long-anticipated “Donda” was released around 8 a.m. — West wrote: “UNIVERSAL PUT MY ALBUM OUT WITHOUT MY APPROVAL AND THEY BLOCKED

Lee “Scratch” Perry, the eccentric, revolutionary Jamaican producer, songwriter and performer whose influence extended far beyond his historic role in the development of reggae music, died Sunday at a hospital in Lucea, Jamaica at age 85. No cause of death was immediately given. The news was confirmed in a tweet from Jamaica’s prime minister, Andrew

After five weeks, four official public listening sessions and millions of words of speculation from the media, Kanye West finally released his “Donda” album to streaming services on Sunday morning. It is unclear when the album was actually posted, but a press release from West’s label, Def Jam, arrived at around 8:15 a.m. ET. The

The Rolling Stones posted a video on Friday honoring their late drummer Charlie Watts, who died on Tuesday. The two-minute video, shared on the band’s official Twitter and Instagram, is a slideshow of photos and videos of Watts playing in the band, appearing in music videos, addressing the press and more, edited to the beat

The cover to Halsey’s “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power” reveal set the internet abuzz when it was unveiled earlier this year. Now that the album is out, stylist Law Roach, who counts Celine Dion, Zendaya, Kerry Washington and Tiffany Hadish among his clients, is revealing the a bit about the creative process.

H.E.R. has signed on for her first acting role, landing the part of Squeak in Blitz Bazawule’s forthcoming adaptation of “The Color Purple” for Warner Bros. H.E.R. is already an Oscar winner, earning the best original song trophy in April for her song “Fight For You,” from Warner Bros.’ “Judas and the Black Messiah.” The

As music has become an increasingly integral component of the storytelling process, thanks to such series as “Pose” and “Bridgerton,” the role of the music director has changed. “I’m seeing music being used in ways that you didn’t see before,” says Harvey Mason Jr. He landed two nominations this year for “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” earning

As Emmy voting draws to a close, the 2021 music nominations span rookies to regulars. Here’s a guide, sizing up the competition in seven categories including scoring, supervision and song. There is a wealth of music nominated across different sounds and genres. Variety breaks it all down in the annual Emmy chart. Music Composition for a Series

When the Foo Fighters aren’t trolling Westboro Baptists, preparing to receive the first-ever Global Icon Award at the 2021 VMAs and breathing life back into Madison Square Garden amidst a global pandemic, they’re doing what they do best: putting on a rock show. Last month a select group of lucky fans in Los Angeles were

Drake’s highly anticipated next album “Certified Lover Boy” is nearly here…if a cryptic video on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” is to be believed. In an average-looking “SportsCenter” promo on ESPN, the video glitched in and out for a few seconds, and a man holding a cardboard sign reading “CLB September 3” briefly appeared with garbled audio. The

We know the ever-ubiquitous, always-empowered music and lyrics of songwriter Diane Warren, intimately, long before we know her as a performative artist. That’s because unlike legendary song-scribes like Carole King and Valerie Simpson, Warren waited 38 years since her first chart-topping tune (1983’s Laura Branigan’s “Solitaire”) to concern herself with making a solo album, “The

While most horror films tend to feature a sizable body count, the underlying theme guiding many of the genre’s best movies remains one of survival. The same can be said of “Screen Violence,” the fourth album from Glasgow synth-pop trio Chvrches. Though it’s not a concept album by definition, an overarching theme of resiliency akin

It’s been a full month, and the tale of Kanye West’s ongoing “Donda” listening events continues. On Thursday night, West — or “Ye” as he legally petitioned to change his name earlier this week — rented out another gigantic venue to play what many hope (but few expect) to be the final version of his

Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and actor Brian Posehn (“The Sarah Silverman Program,” “The Big Bang Theory”) have teamed up with Heavy Metal Magazine to create new comic book series “The Axe,” coming in early 2022. A horror-comedy adventure, “The Axe” follows three nerdy, skatepunk, metalhead teenagers who steal an old, cursed guitar that

Sometimes you learn about a collaboration in the making that sounds so promising, your first instinct is to completely dial down expectations, lest there be too much disappointment when the uncertain chemistry goes pfff instead of pow. So it was when Halsey just recently revealed one of music’s best kept secrets, that an entire album

A Kiss concert scheduled for Thursday night at an amphitheater in Pennsylvania was called off with fans gathering outside the gates to enter, after singer Paul Stanley tested positive for COVID. In a social media statement, the group emphasized that everyone in the band and crew is vaccinated. “Tonight’s #KISS show at The Pavilion at

Republic Records has signed singer-songwriter Kim Petras, who will drop a new single tonight called “Future Starts Now.” The track is the first single from her upcoming debut album and the first release from her newly inked partnership with the label. Petras comments on the new single, “I felt so anxious at the start of

A jury has yet to vote, if the case should make it to court, on whether the former members of Nirvana and their associates sexually exploited a child by putting an unclothed 4-month-old boy on the cover of the classic 1991 album “Nevermind.” But the general public has done a lot of weighing in on

After nearly six decades, a private recording of a rare, nightclub performance by John Coltrane of his magnum opus, “A Love Supreme,” is set for commercial release this fall. Recorded in late 1965 on the culminating evening of a historic week-long run at the Penthouse in Seattle, “A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle” captures Coltrane as he began to expand his classic quartet

Sometimes the best movies often are the ones where the protagonist is seemingly defeated, gets a second lease on life, and returns in the final act to settle the score. And Palestinian-born, Ottawa-raised rapper Belly is back with a vengeance on his new studio album, “See You Next Wednesday,” which comes out tomorrow. After going

Remember those new ABBA songs and “virtual tour” that were supposedly on the way three and a half years ago? First it was two new songs, then six new songs, for a “Virtual ABBA” experience in collaboration with “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller? Well, finally something is on the way, judging by a vague social