Kevin Morby’s Little Wide Open remains one of the best albums we’ve heard this year. When it dropped, Morby told us the story behind every song on the tracklist, but there were some tunes left over when all was said and done. One of those is out today, and it’s a lot more lighthearted than most Morby tracks. The post …

Last year, towering figure David Byrne signed to Matador and released Who Is The Sky?, his first album in seven years. Byrne recorded the LP with Harry Styles collaborator Kid Harpoon, and it included collaborations with people like Hayley Williams and St. Vincent. Since that record came out, Byrne has been awfully busy, touring with a mesmerizing, elaborate new live …

Ye could be facing a hefty price tag in the discrimination lawsuit brought by a former Donda Academy security guard who claims he was fired after refusing to cut his… The post Former DONDA Academy Employee Seeks $23 Million From Ye In Discrimination Lawsuit appeared first on .

In 2022, a woman named Julia Misley (formerly Julia Holcomb) sued Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, accusing him of sexually assaulting her in the ’70s, when she was a minor. Misley filed her lawsuit in the final days of the Child Victims Act, a 2019 law that temporarily voided the statute of limitations for victims of child sexual abuse. She met …

The Georgia singer-songwriter Robert Lester Folsom released his private press album Music And Dreams into obscurity in 1976, but it eventually developed a cult following, especially once the Mexican Summer imprint Anthology Recordings reissued it in 2010, back when excavating unheard pop oddities was becoming all the rage within the indie sphere. Now Anthology is releasing a 50th anniversary edition …

It has been almost nine years since we lost Tom Petty, and it has been almost 50 since Petty and his Heartbreakers released their self-titled debut album. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers will have its half-century birthday this November, and Petty’s estate will celebrate the occasion with the release of Origins 1971-1978, a new box set that’ll include previously unreleased …

In the summer of 1991, I was a 19-year-old college kid who couldn’t stop thinking about the new songs I’d heard Nirvana perform live: “Breed,” with its driving power; the Beatlesque “Drain You”; and especially the bombastic anthem “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” which I’d seen them debut at Seattle’s packed, tiny OK Hotel that April. Nevermind wasn’t out yet, but …

Get ready for even more “Choosin’ Texas” dominance. Earlier this week, Ella Langley’s country mega-smash tied the record held by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” becoming the longest-reigning #1 hit in Billboard Hot 100 history. Last night, Drake, a man who cares deeply about Hot 100 records, shared his own extremely Drake-ified version of “Choosin’ Texas,” …

On today’s date, 47 years ago, Hip Hop’s first Billboard Top 40 single, “Rapper’s Delight,” was released by Englewood, New Jersey’s Sugarhill Gang. As one of  Hip Hop’s earliest relics, this single,… The post Today In Hip Hop History: The Sugar Hill Gang Released ‘Rapper’s Delight’ 47 Years Ago appeared first on .

Myke Towers is bringing his biggest hits—and the global smash “Carita Feliz”—to Miami for SiriusXM and Pandora’s El Pulso concert. The post EXCLUSIVE: Myke Towers to Headline SiriusXM and Pandora’s El Pulso in Miami appeared first on Remezcla.