Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella Plenty of artists who have young fans don’t seem to have a problem with using explicit language in their songs, including Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift. But artists don’t normally tell those young fans not to come see them in concert, where they’ll be using that explicit language — until now.…
From a lead single to the fourth iteration of an album series, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest and greatest in music. Tems, “Love Me Jeje” — Featuring an interpolation of Seyi Sodimu‘s song of the same name, the song’s the lead single off Tems’ debut album, Born In the Wild, due out in…
Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images The Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash Festival is coming back for its sixth year, with a lineup filled with stars ready to hit the stage. The three-day event is taking place June 14-16 at the Seatgeek Stadium in Chicago, with headliners Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and Chief Keef. The performance will…
Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Fantasia Barrino says she’d love to replace Katy Perry as a judge on American Idol. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight released Thursday, April 25, Fantasia said she wasn’t aware Katy was exiting the singing competition show at the end of this season, but she would be up to replace…
Chris Haston/Warner Bros. Is Zendaya eying a return to music? During her appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show Friday, April 26, to promote her new movie Challengers, the actress/singer gave an update on whether she’d release a new song any time soon. “I love music, and it’s something that’s been special to me,” she says.…
L-R: Brown, Sullivan — Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Sterling K. Brown took to Instagram Friday with his former This Is Us co-stars Chris Sullivan and Mandy Moore to announce they’re launching a new podcast about their former NBC hit. This Is Us aired from 2016 to 2022 on NBC and followed the…
Hugo Comte Normani’s new single, “1:59,” is finally here. The singer dropped the sultry track, featuring Gunna, as the first taste of her debut album, Dopamine, which comes out June 14. “When I get you alone/boy what you gon’ do with it?” she sings on the chorus. “Don’t talk too much, just do this sh**/Boy,…
Cooper Neill/Getty Images Eminem is ready to say goodbye to his alter ego. The rapper announced his new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), Thursday night. The announcement, which aired during the NFL Draft, featured a trailer for a fake true crime series, Detroit Murder Files, about the “cold case” murder of Slim Shady. …
ABC Audio When Tank released R&B Money in 2022, it was accompanied by the news that it’d be his final album. Fans dealing with that reality are now in for some good news: he’s “all the way back.” “You know what? I was really gone. I really had my heart set on [retiring],” Tank tells ABC Audio —…
Keeley Parenteau Chance the Rapper is out with a new video for “Buried Alive,” which he directed himself. The song, from his album Star Line Gallery, sees him discuss “themes of self-discovery, resilience and the relentless pursuit of freedom,” reflected in the visual as Chance breaks free from a box he’s trapped in. With his newfound freedom,…