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British singer Mahalia and Rico Nasty have teamed up for a new song, “Jealous.” “Jealous” boasts a booming beat that provides the perfect anchor for Mahalia and Rico Nasty to unspool some slick kiss-off bars with deceptively sweet vocal performances. “Hm, I’m going crazy,” Mahalia sings on the hook. “Think …

By 1968, despite, or maybe because of, their huge popularity and success, the Beatles found themselves spiritually exhausted. “We’d been the Beatles, which was marvelous,” Paul McCartney later recalled in The Beatles Anthology. “We’d tried for it not to go to our heads and we were doing quite well – …

Justin Timberlake has apologized to both Britney Spears and Janet Jackson in a new statement the singer posted on social media. Following the recent release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears, Timberlake has been criticized for the public relations offensive his team dispatched in the aftermath of the pop stars’ …

Chick Corea, the virtuosic keyboardist who broadened the scope of jazz during a career spanning more than five decades, died on Tuesday from a rare form of cancer. A post on his Facebook page confirmed the news. Corea was 79. “Throughout his life and career, Chick relished in the freedom …

Alex Somers has revealed two solo debut albums — Siblings and Siblings 2 — out March 19th via Krunk. Ahead of the release, the producer and Jónsi collaborator dropped lead singles from each LP, “Deathbed” and “Sooner.” The tracks are both instrumental, with “Deathbed” containing deep, billowing exhales and “Sooner” …

Morgan Wallen held onto the Number One spot on the Artists 500 chart for the fourth week in a row, despite an ongoing controversy after video emerged of him using a racist slur. For the week of January 29th through February 4th, Wallen earned 166 million song streams, up from …

Phoebe Bridgers made her Saturday Night Live debut with a performance highlighting a pair of tracks off her 2020 LP Punisher, Number 10 on Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2020 list. Bridgers opened her musical spot with “Kyoto,” with the singer and her band all wearing her now-trademark skeleton suits. …

Flo Milli has paired her single “Roaring 20s,” a Song You Need to Know, with a new video that throws back to the titular 20th century decade. In the Child-directed video for the Fiddler on the Roof-sampling hit, the Alabama rapper and her coterie of dancers stage a Roaring Twenties-era …

Pussy Riot have released a new song “Rage” amid a surge of protests in Russia over the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova wrote “Rage” with Chris Greatti, who co-produced the track with Crazy Demxns. The song was supposed to arrive later this year with Pussy …

The Weeknd discussed being shut out from the 2021 Grammy Awards in a new cover story interview with Billboard. Calling the snub “an attack,” the singer was just as surprised by his lack of nominations as were his fans, pop critics and industry insiders alike. “I use a sucker punch …