Nicki Minaj took to X early Wednesday morning to let her fans, and Jay-Z in particular, know that she is pulling a forthcoming album. The rapper – who hasn’t released a record with or is known to have ...

Great artists who are the opposite of prolific are always a thorny subject. Many of our most romantic ideas about creativity tend to view “genius” as a kind of vessel state, from which beauty and ...

For her part, BIA doesn’t acknowledge her war of words with Cardi B on Bianca, unless one counts “Bad Guy,” where she adopts a guttural, Foxy Brown-like tone and references her Italian and Puerto ...

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According to Marcin Rozpedski, owner of The Rozpedski Performance Academy, losing a pickleball match “is not a loss, it’s a lesson.” That said, this fiercely competitive member of the Coachella Valley ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Wolf Alice plays a nearly sold-out Wiltern show Oct. 13, marking its biggest U.S. tour after 15 years of ...

Rob Zombie has announced a new album, titled The Great Satan. In advance of its February 27th release via Nuclear Blast Records, the shock rocker has unveiled the single “Punks and Demons.” The Great ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

Partnership, humility, and deep dives into American folk, blues, and gospel are the threads that run through Robert Plant’s post-Led Zeppelin output. While humility is not the first word associated ...

The best Midwest emo albums of the 1990s were contained within the actual Midwest, for the most part. Fast forward to more recent years and we've seen bands from just about every corner of the U.S.

Archaeologists found a molcajete offering at the scorpion effigy mound. We see (left) the way the artifact was found and (right), the artifact with the cover bowl taken off. The summer solstice was an ...

With 3.2 million sales and another 300,000 units from streams, these are particularly strong numbers even for the world’s biggest artist. By Ethan Millman Music Editor Swift’s strong numbers shirk one ...