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Bad Bunny‘s sixth studio album is just two days from it’s official release. On Friday morning, the Grammy-winning reggaeton star revealed a 17-song tracklist alongside a short film that tackles issues of gentrification in his native Puerto Rico. The album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should’ve Taken More Photos”), is due out Jan. 5 and

Gas-guzzling trucks carrying gear from city to city. Food waste emitting potent methane. Plastic utensils, plastic bags for merch (where is that sweatshirt coming from?), plastic light-up bracelets, plastic water bottles. Fans traveling tens to hundreds of miles to the arena. Single-use outfits from Shein and Amazon. These are just a few of the reasons

Neil Young has walked back his decision to boycott this year’s Glastonbury Festival. Earlier this week the musician announced he would not be playing the festival after the BBC, the festival’s broadcast partner, had “wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in.” Young, who headlined Glasto in

Thirty years after Tejano icon Selena Quintanilla-Perez was murdered in her native Texas, her killer, 64 year-old Yolanda Saldívar, is under review for parole. Saldívar is currenly serving a life sentence at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas — nearly five hours away from the scene of Selena’s death in Corpus Christi. According

Wayne Osmond, one of the original members of the Osmonds sibling singing group, died Wednesday in Salt Lake City. He was 73. Merrill Osmond, one of Wayne Osmond’s brothers, shared on Facebook that Wayne suffered a massive stroke, and that he was able to get to the hospital in Salt Lake to say his goodbyes

Lauren Davis has been promoted to associate chair of New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She will work alongside Nick Sansano, chair of the Clive Davis Institute. Davis is a highly-experienced music attorney who has represented high-profile musicians, producers and publishers, among others. She’s been teaching at NYU since 2006 and served

Billie Eilish kicked off the New Year with yet another milestone, as “Birds of a Feather” became the most-streamed song on Spotify in 2024. The song, included on her third album “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” took the streaming throne with 1,775,172,881 listens in 2024. She just slipped past Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Espresso” by nearly 650,000

Over the last quarter of a century, Relentless Records has been one of the most reliable sources for breaking artists out of the United Kingdom. And now it’s heading across the Atlantic, as the label plans to celebrate its silver jubilee by setting up its first American office. Relentless founder/president Shabir “Shabs” Jobanputra was not

Neil Young has pulled out of this year’s Glastonbury Festival, blaming the BBC’s “corporate control” for his decision. The musician said he and his band, the Chrome Hearts, would not be performing at the famed U.K. music event in June. “The Chrome Hearts and I were looking forward to playing Glastonbury, one of my all

This unfortunately postponed tour is a key element of Donald Glover’s self-proclaimed “final” project from his Childish Gambino persona and involves his latest album, the excellent “Bando Stone and the New World,” a forthcoming film of the same name and, possibly most elaborate of all, this “New World Tour.” Designed by Tobias Rylander (Beyonce, the 1975), the

Diplo rang in 2025 in an altered state. The DJ and music producer shocked and delighted Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on CNN’s New Year’s Eve special by revealing that he was tripping while he appeared virtually on the cable news network. “I’m so curious, what’s the most conventional place that you’ve done LSD?” Cohen

Johnnie Walker, a former BBC Radio 2 DJ known for hosting the “Sounds of the 70s” show, died Monday. He was 79. The news was announced live on the station by Bob Harris, who took over Johnnie Walker’s role on the radio show back in October. BBC reported that Johnnie Walker had pulmonary fibrosis, a

If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, perhaps you look back on the wealth of phenomenal songs the year gave

SZA’s “SOS” returns to the top of the albums chart (it was at No. 15 in the previous week) following the release of its deluxe reissue, a 15-song extension dubbed “Lana.” This is the 11th total week at No. 1 for the Grammy-winning record that debuted in December 2022. Prior to “Lana,” “SOS’” final week

A young Jimmy Carter was no stranger to gospel music growing up in the small rural town of Plains, Georgia during the ’20s and early ’30’. He heard it sung by Black tenant farmers working on his father’s land. He heard it too during 24-hour gospel sings that occurred every fifth Sunday, where quartets, local

America loves a parade. America also loves to learn from Oprah, to rock with Ryan Seacrest on New Year’s Eve and to belt out the hits with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden. The list of the year’s top 25 most-watched entertainment specials is topped by NBC’s Turkey Day telecast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day

We’re officially coming up on Grammy season — but right before that, in this week between Christmas and New Year’s, it’s Grammy commemoration season, thanks to a couple of two-hour throwback specials premiering on CBS. First, on Friday night, comes “Grammy Greats: The Stories Behind the Songs,” dedicated to the winners in the Song of

OG Maco, the Atlanta rapper best known for his 2014 hit “U Guessed It,” died at the age of 32. The musician, born Benedict Chiajulam Ihesiba Jr., was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital on Dec. 12 after apparently shooting himself in the head. His family shared news of his death on his social media

Five years after its launch, Saudi Arabia’s recently-concluded Mdlbeast Soundstorm music festival has put the kingdom’s capital of Riyadh on the map in terms of live events in the Middle East. This year’s Dec. 12-14 edition of Soundstorm – which started out in 2019 as an electronic dance music festival – featured over 200 international

The woman accusing Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 can proceed anonymously (“at least for now”) in her lawsuit against the rappers, a judge ruled Thursday. New York Judge Analisa Torres also condemned the legal team representing Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) for the “relentless filing of combative

A downtown Los Angeles building made famous as the setting of an album cover photo for the legendary rock band the Doors was heavily damaged after fire broke out Thursday morning. The building that was once home to a transient hotel known as the Morrison Hotel was the setting for cover photo for the band’s

Bad Bunny will kickoff the new year with a new album, the Grammy-winning singer confirmed Thursday with a video trailer. Dubbed “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should’ve Taken More Photos”) the 17-song set will be out on Jan. 5, 2025. The trailer begins with a zoomed out perspective of an isolated home in Puerto Rico.

Sault, the prolific R&B-leaning collective helmed by songwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalist Inflo, never does anything the easy way. Their albums and rare concerts are all elaborate and self-financed; they don’t give interviews or even reveal their identities except in the credits of the albums, although it’s possible that not all of the contributors are credited. The group and

Beyoncé showed out for her native Houston with her highly anticipated NFL halftime performance during the Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans football game on Christmas Day. For her first live televised performance in four years, dubbed “Beyoncé Bowl,” the singer put on a meticulously confected and executed show, enlisting Post Malone, Shaboozey and her daughter

Richard Perry, a prominent record producer who helped craft dozens of hits with a polished pop sound throughout the 1970s and ’80s, such as Carly Simon‘s “You’re So Vain,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 82. His friend Daphna Kastner Keitel told the New York Times he died of cardiac arrest. Perry started out

Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Chan set yet another benchmark in the annals of holiday music by issuing her 14th straight annual Christmas release, “Shatterproof,” this month. No one is likely to come close to shattering that record for the highest number of consecutive seasonal albums or EPs, but Chan — who is known for having a claim

Just in time for Hannukah, Jewish American rapper Your Old Droog has released “Suspects,” the first single from his next album after 2024’s “Movie.” Produced by Edan, the song skillfully merges Droog’s skill as a storyteller with a sample from the rapper, producer and DJ’s bottomless library of 1960s and ‘70s pop obscurities. Though the

We don’t want to harsh anyone’s Christmas mellow — or marshmallow — by annotating all 100 songs at once. But here are 80 more great ones for you to discover on your own time: Marvin Gaye, “I Want to Come Home for Christmas”Dwight Yoakam, “Santa Can’t Stay”Prince, ”Another Lonely Christmas”John Prine, ”Christmas in Prison”The Moonglows,

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued by a former male employee claiming that Combs pressured him into having sex with a woman and instructed him to cater to what Combs referred to as “Wild King Nights,” where the mogul engaged in evenings of sex and drug use. Attorneys for Phillip Pines filed the suit against

Otis Williams’ nickname is “Oak,.” Given that the 83-year-old singer is still a member of the Temptations, 64 years after the group’s founding, it’s not to figure where that came from. He’s been the sole original member in the group since the early ’90s, in fact, and is still on the road and in the