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The Paris 2024 Olympics welcomed several new sports this year, one of which was breaking. More commonly referred to as breakdancing, the sport—a foundational part of hip-hop culture—started in the Bronx back in the 1980s, but only made its Olympic debut this year at Place de la Concorde stadium. Bringing home the first-ever gold trophies

Sufjan Stevens has produced My Favorite Dream, a new album of children’s music by John Legend, The Associated Press reports. The unlikely duo came together at Legend’s behest when he conceived of the LP, which is due August 30. Stevens also contributes backing vocals, arrangements, and instrumental parts. Listen to a song from the record,

The Killers have released a new single. Watch the video for “Bright Lights” below. The track follows last year’s greatest-hits collection Rebel Diamonds, which came with recent tracks “Spirit” and “Your Side of Town.” Though “Bright Lights” is their first release of the year, the Killers have remained ubiquitous on the festival circuit, including high-profile

During a presentation yesterday at a D23 fan event in Anaheim, California, Disney announced that Trent Reznor’s groundbreaking group, Nine Inch Nails, will handle the score for Tron: Ares, the third installment of the cyber-futuristic science fiction film series, set for release in October 2025. The core members of the band, Reznor and Atticus Ross,

Green Day are reissuing American Idiot to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary this fall. The digital deluxe edition arrives October 25 and includes unreleased demos, B-sides, live versions, and bonus songs. The 8xLP box set edition also features a new documentary on the album, 20 Years of American Idiot, alongside the 2015 documentary Heart Like

Travis Scott was arrested in Paris this morning (August 9) for allegedly assaulting a security guard, BBC News reports. The incident took place outside the George V hotel after Scott attended a basketball game with Quavo at the Olympics. According to police, the security guard had been trying to break up an altercation between Scott

Katy Perry is back again. Following last month’s “Woman’s World,” the pop singer has unleashed the new single “Lifetimes.” It comes with a video directed by frequent Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz. Watch the new video below. “Lifetimes” is produced by Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald and Vaughn Oliver, and it is the second single from Perry’s

Finneas, Billie Eilish’s older brother and go-to producer, has announced his second solo studio album. The new album, For Cryin’ Out Loud!, is out on October 4 via Interscope. Leading the album is its title track. Watch the new “For Cryin’ Out Loud!” video below. Finneas produced For Cryin’ Out Loud!, which follows his 2021

Taylor Swift has canceled her three Eras Tour shows in Vienna after Austrian police arrested two men who are accused of plotting a terrorist attack. The concerts had been scheduled to take place on August 8, 9, and 10 at the city’s Ernst-Happel-Stadion. Nearly 200,000 people had been expected to attend the concerts. The New

Regional Justice Center, the powerviolence band led by Militarie Gun’s Ian Shelton, have returned with some big changes and a new album. Freedom, Sweet Freedom is due out September 20 via Closed Casket Activities, and joining Shelton in the band are his younger brother, Max, and Taylor Young of Twitching Tongues and Nails. Listen to

Bright Eyes have announced a lengthy 2025 tour, and they’re back with another new song from their upcoming album Five Dice, All Threes. “Rainbow Overpass” is a horn-fueled single featuring gang vocals by the So So Glos’ Alex Orange Drink. Give it a listen below. Conor Oberst elaborated on that collaboration at the heart of

Oliver Coates is back with a new album. Throb, Shiver, Arrow of Time is the British composer-producer and cellist’s formal follow-up to 2020’s Skins n Slime, after interim work on soundtracks for Aftersun and The Stranger, among other films. Ahead of its release on October 18, via Rvng Intl., watch the Hannah Perry–directed video for

In an interview with Sight & Sound magazine, David Lynch revealed that he was diagnosed with emphysema due to constant smoking throughout his life, and consequently must remain “homebound” to avoid colds, COVID-19, and other sicknesses. Lynch added that he could direct movies “remotely,” but that he “wouldn’t like that so much.” After speculation that

Half Waif, the project of Nandi Rose, is back with a new album. See You at the Maypole, the follow-up to 2021’s Mythopoetics, arrives October 4 via Anti-. New song “Figurine” leads the LP. Below, watch its Derrick Belcham–directed video, shot at Rose’s upstate New York home with choreographer Kora Radella, and scroll down to

Two Shell have enlisted Sugababes for a new song, “Round,” a rework of the pop trio’s 2002 hit “Round Round.” The band’s original (and current) lineup of Mutya, Keisha, and Siobhan re-recorded their vocals for Two Shell’s track, which the dance duo debuted back in 2022 in a Hessle Audio guest mix. Listen to “Round”

Britney Spears is getting the biopic treatment: The pop star has announced that her recent memoir, The Woman in Me, will be adapted into a feature film by Universal Pictures, with director Jon M. Chu (Wicked) and producer Marc Platt (La La Land) attached to develop. Spears shared the news on X (formerly Twitter) to

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign have come together once more for the new album Vultures 2. Their second ¥$ album, after February’s Vultures 1, is out now, and features guest spots from Young Thug, 070 Shake, Future, Playboi Carti, Kodak Black, Don Toliver, Lil Durk, and two of West’s children, North and Chicago. The

DJ Randall, the influential UK drum’n’bass DJ and producer, has died, Mixmag reports, citing his representatives. He was 54 years old. Born in east London, Randall became a fixture of the UK dance scene in the late 1980s and early ’90s, helping shepherd acid house towards breakbeat, hardcore, and jungle in warehouse venues and on