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Marilyn Manson is dropping a lawsuit that he filed, in 2022, against Evan Rachel Wood and Illma Gore, Rolling Stone reports and Pitchfork can confirm. Manson has also agreed to reimburse Wood nearly $327,000 in attorneys’ fees, her team says. (A judge ruled earlier this year that he had to pay Wood’s legal fees.) In

Drake has filed a second legal petition against Universal Music Group (UMG), this time claiming the company should have prevented the release of Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster diss track “Not Like Us” because it is defamatory, Billboard reports. Drake alleges, through lawyers, that the song damages his reputation by “falsely accusing him of being a sex

Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has announced a new instrument called Orchid. Conceived by the producer extraordinaire over a decade ago and developed by Telepathic Instruments, Orchid is an “advanced chord generating hardware synthesizer” that was made with both longtime songwriters and new musicians alike in mind. Watch a trailer that showcases the range of abilities

Kendrick Lamar has released a new music video for “Squabble Up,” the GNX song that he had previewed in the “Not Like Us” video. Calmatic directed the new visual, which finds Lamar reading a book called How to Be More Like Kendrick for Dummies and, later, holding up a sign that reads “JESUS SAVES GANGSTERS

Rahim Redcar, the artist formerly known as Christine and the Queens, has covered “It’s Okay to Cry” by the late SOPHIE. While this is the first proper recording of his take on the song, Redcar has actually been performing the cover live during his recent club tour of Europe. Give it a listen below. Back

Do you wish Brat Summer would never end? Charli XCX is here to help. The British pop singer has announced a short run of arena dates that take place, in the United States, in the spring. She’ll perform in Austin, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Rosemont, Illinois; and Brooklyn, New York. See all of Charli XCX’s upcoming

With basically no warning, Kendrick Lamar released his new album, GNX, on Friday, and he caught everybody’s attention from the jump. On the album’s first song, “Wacced Out Murals,” Lamar mentions three veteran rappers by name, and each has responded to the name-checks, as Stereogum notes. First, Lamar raps, “Used to bump Tha Carter III,

Daniel Blumberg scored Brady Corbet’s new A24 movie The Brutalist, and he’s now sharing the details of his soundtrack album. The Brutalist soundtrack is out December 13 via Milan Records. Leading the 32-song release are three “Overture” tracks. Listen to the new songs below. In a statement about the “Overture” songs, Blumberg said: “Brady and

Kanye West has been sued by a woman who claims that he sexually assaulted her during a music video shoot in 2010. The woman, a model named Jenifer “Jenn” An, filed her lawsuit today (November 22) in a New York federal court. She is suing West and co-defendants Universal Music Group and Stink Digital USA

Released in mid-2022, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers followed Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 2017 LP, Damn, and featured notable collaborators such as Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, Summer Walker, and Ghostface Killah. Per tradition, it was preceded by an installment of his “The Heart” singles series, “The Heart Part 5,” which came with a deepfake-heavy video in

André 3000 has shared a new song. “Moving Day” was featured, earlier this week, in a short film of the same name, which was directed by Dexter Navy and documented the making of André 3000’s 2023 album, New Blue Sun. “Moving Day” continues the Outkast musician’s foray into cosmic flute and is accompanied by two

Jussie Smollett, the former Empire actor who was convicted, in 2021, of staging a hate crime on himself in 2019, has had that conviction overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court. The court ruled that, since Smollett had negotiated an agreement when similar charges were filed in 2019, prosecutors violated due process by trying him again

The lineup for the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is here, and it confirms that Post Malone is among the headliners. He’ll perform a career-spanning set on the two Sundays (April 13 and 20). Before he takes the stage, Lady Gaga will headline on the Friday nights (April 11 and 18), Green Day

The surviving members of the Pogues have announced a 40th anniversary UK tour of their classic album Rum Sodomy & the Lash. Original members James Fearnley, Jem Finer, and Spider Stacy will embark on the tour, with help from yet-to-be-announced guests, in their latest run of dates since the death, last year, of Shane MacGowan.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are compiling some of their lesser-known tracks on a new album. The B-Sides compilation Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010 is out February 7. Take a look at the tracklist, and revisit the music video for 2010’s “Say No to Love,” below. “Many of these songs, like

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Sabrina Carpenter is partnering with Netflix for a new special event titled A Nonsense Christmas. Premiering December 6, it includes musical duets with Chappell Roan, Kali Uchis, Tyla, and Shania Twain, as well as a star-studded cast making appearances throughout, ranging from Quinta Brunson as Ghost of Present to Sean Astin dressed up as Santa

Breeders singer and guitarist Kim Deal is going on tour in 2025 in support of her upcoming solo album, Nobody Loves You More. Ahead of the LP’s release, this Friday, Deal has shared one last single from it, the title track, along with a music video directed by Alex Da Corte. Check that out below,