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By this point, our calendars are filled with crossed reminders of the release date for The 1975’s new album. After two years and multiple delays, the circle finally takes the square: The 1975 have today released Notes on a Conditional Form. The follow-up to the truly excellent 2018 effort A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships was

The quarantine has forced festivals and concerts online, but the vast majority of the artists are playing for free. That may start changing, however, as one Canadian organization seeks to pay out musicians for their live shows on Facebook and Instagram The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has started up

Exclusive Roddy Ricch really is ballin’ now … along with his crew cause he hooked ’em up with some diamond-studded championship rings to celebrate his first-ever Grammy win. The 21-year-old Compton MC will soon get his hands on these incredibly-baller rings produced by none other than Hollywood’s favorite celebrity jeweler, Elliot Eliantte. We’re told Roddy

Guns N’ Roses have rescheduled their upcoming North American tour due to safety concerns surrounding the spread of coronavirus. The tour was set to begin at Milwaukee’s Summerfest on July 4. All tickets will be honored for the to-be-announced future dates. The band has also canceled their European tour, set to kick off today (May

Fans holding out hope that Deftones might still tour North America in 2020 will have to wait until next year to see the alt-metal veterans. The band has officially postponed its summer tour with Gojira and Poppy due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but plans to announce rescheduled dates for 2021. The news of the postponement

David Guetta took his live stream game to a whole new level for the EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon over the weekend. Equipped with his massive festival-ready tracks and IDs, the renowned DJ/producer brought the rave to our homes from a very special location. Guetta took the decks at LIV Nightclub in Miami Beach, Florida —

Exclusive “The Last Dance” wasn’t just huge for Michael Jordan fans — it’s provided a HUGE boost for The Alan Parsons Project … with people playing MJ’s famous intro music in record numbers. You know the song … it echoed throughout Chicago Stadium and the United Center every single time MJ’s Chicago Bulls squad was

Donald Glover’s reunion with the cast of Community is happening tonight. The virtual table read of “Cooperative Polygraphy” begins at 5 p.m. Eastern. Glover will join his castmates Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Jim Rash, and Ken Jeong, as well as creator Dan Harmon. Fans will be asked to

Joy Division never wrote a bad song; there just wasn’t any time. In the four years the Manchester outfit existed, Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris were a force of creativity — pure and unadulterated. They weren’t just talented, they were in sync, and their tragic gasp of a timeline has nurtured

We’ve seen drive-in raves happening in the news — like this one — and now Colorado has announced plans to host its very own. DenversDom is excited to present Colorado’s First Dubstep Drive-In, going down June 11, 2020. This unique concert experience will be the first of its kind in Colorado, featuring live performances by Midnight

Exclusive Pop Smoke‘s murder remains unsolved, and the coronavirus pandemic is doing detectives no favors … severely hindering progress in the investigation. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … response to COVID-19 and related issues has been LAPD’s top priority the past 2 months, meaning less time and resources available to focus on the rapper’s killer.

Independent filmmaker Lynn Shelton has died, as Variety reports. The influential film and television director, who helmed films like Humpday and Sword of Trust in addition to episodes of Little Fires Everywhere, GLOW, Mad Men, and more, passed away from a blood disorder. She was 54 years old. After getting her start in the industry

Today, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of arguably the greatest live rock and roll album of all time. June 1969. Back from the brink, The Who are bigger than they ever imagined possible. With Tommy selling 200,000 copies in the first two weeks in the US alone, it was a remarkable turnaround for a band

ZHU just released his first track of 2020, and it’s well worth the wait. “ONLY” with Tinashe is peak ZHU, with deep bass, some accentuating piano notes, filtered vocals, and that idiosyncratic “ZHU” vibe. The first two thirds or so of the track are just ZHU on vocals, but when Tinashe comes in, her own

Play video content Exclusive OCTV Cuba Gooding Jr. is doing his part to lift the spirits of the brave women fighting COVID-19 on the frontlines … with an uplifting song and tale of his own perseverance. The “Jerry Maguire” star serenaded the nurses at 2 of the biggest medical facilities in Anaheim, the epicenter of

Luca Guadagnino has been tapped to direct a new reboot of Scarface, as Variety reports. The director of Call Me by Your Name and Suspiria will be working with a script written by the Coen Brothers, who came aboard the project several years ago. According to a press info, the film will be set in

Guns N’ Roses have turned one of the most ironic moments of the pandemic into a charitable piece of apparel, selling a “Live N’ Let Die With COVID 45” t-shirt on their official merch site. Last week, President Trump toured a factory in Arizona that was manufacturing essential N-95 face masks while not wearing a

It’s nice to see that even now riddim is still evolving. A new song from previously unknown producer phonon has taken dubstep Twitter by storm with his new song “polyriddim,” out now on Odio Records. The typical dubstep rhythm, as it began in its earliest days, has a 4/4 time signature with the kick &

Exclusive Sophie Turner‘s not hiding it anymore — she’s pretty pregnant … which she casually revealed on a walk with her hubby, Joe Jonas. Up to this point, the baby rumors have been swirling … but the cat’s out of the bag after the married couple was spotted strolling in L.A. Sophie and Joe both

Pitchfork is pleased to announce that Nick Hakim will play a stay-at-home concert that will broadcast live on Instagram this Wednesday, May 13, at 7 p.m. Eastern. You can tune in at Pitchfork’s Instagram. The performance will be part of a series of concert sessions that take place on our Instagram on Wednesdays and Fridays,

Bryan Adams was supposed to kick off a residency at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday, but because of the coronavirus, those dates have been delayed indifferently. The “Summer of ’69” songwriter and devout vegan isn’t holding back on who he blames for the crisis. “Thanks to some fucking bat eating, wet market animal selling,

Flume and Eiffel 65 is the musical combination we didn’t know we needed until now! Like so many producers, Flume is getting his hands dirty in the studio over quarantine. And most recently, he remixed the always iconic banger “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” — because, well, we’re all feeling a little blue right now and it’s

Exclusive Rich the Kid can rap all he wants about how “Money Talks” but one celeb jeweler’s wondering why the Kid’s gone radio silent when it comes to unpaid jewelry bills … according to a new lawsuit. Peter Marco from Extraordinary Jewels of Beverly Hills is suing the “Plug Walk” rapper claiming he owes a

Today, slowthai has released a new song. It’s called “ENEMY,” and you can listen to it below. The rapper released his debut album Nothing Great About Britain last year, and it earned him a nomination for the United Kingdom’s esteemed Mercury Prize. Though he lost to Dave’s Psychodrama, he caused a stir at the awards

The influence of Little Richard can be felt across the entire spectrum of modern music: just look at the countless number of artists, many of whom are legends in their own right, who took time to memorialize Richard following news of his passing on Saturday. Even the notoriously private Bob Dylan issued a rare statement

deadmau5, Steve Aoki and Dillon Francis threw down epic sets in Fortnite‘s Party Royale mode last night — and today, we get to relive it! First up, Dillon Francis slayed the decks with some of his greatest originals and collaborations, “Bun Up The Dance” with Skrillex, “Get Low” with DJ Snake, and much more. Steve

Exclusive R. Kelly is offering an odd bit of reassurance … informing the judge there’s no danger of him harassing his accusers if he gets out of jail, because it’s impossible for him to communicate with them. Kelly’s legal team fired off a letter that’s basically a follow-up to their latest motion requesting Kelly be

Tekashi 6ix9ine has released his first new song following his release from prison last month. It’s called “GOOBA.” That’s it below. The track includes references to COVID-19 (“Basic, been hot, way before coronavirus”) and 6ix9ine’s cooperation with federal prosecutors and testimony (“Tell me how I ratted, came home to a big bag”). In December 2019,

Lil Tjay has returned with a new mixtape called State of Emergency. Stream it in full below via Apple Music or Spotify. Spanning seven tracks, the collection follows up on Lil Tjay’s impressive 2019 full-length debut, True 2 Myself. Here, the young Bronx native is joined by a handful of fellow rising New York hip-hop talents,

The Netherlands has no plans to bring back large-scale music events until there is a vaccine against the coronavirus (COVID-19). As some of the world plans to reopen small venues with limited capacities as soon as this month, the Netherlands is stressing the importance of playing it safe, ruling out “mass events” in the process. Minister