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Houston rapper Maxo Kream, or Emekwane Ogugua Biosah Jr., blew it the first time he took the stage. “I start rapping and I choked, like on some Eminem-type shit,” says Maxo Kream, who was around 19 at the time of his first onstage performance. But that didn’t mean the larger-than-life, …

Kanye West staged an increasingly rare performance Saturday, delivering a handful of hits during a wedding in Venice, Italy. A masked West — who, not counting his Donda stadium playbacks, last performed in March 2020 alongside his Sunday Service — reportedly delivered “Runaway,” “Flashing Lights,” and Donda’s “Come to Life” …

A day before Coldplay drop their new album Music of the Spheres, the band has announced a 2022 “sustainable and low-carbon” tour that will bring the new LP to stadiums around the world. The Music of the Spheres Tour — kicking off March 18th, 2022 in Costa Rica — aims …

UPDATE (10/14): A lawyer for Jennifer Hough denied Nicki Minaj‘s legal team’s attempt to grant an extension to respond to Hough’s lawsuit; because the rapper’s legal team did not respond to the witness intimidation lawsuit, Hough’s lawyer Tyrone Blackburn filed a petition requesting a $20 million default judgment, which Minaj’s …

Johnny Marr has announced a new double album, Fever Dreams Pts 1-4, marking his fourth solo full-length release. The 16-track double LP is due to be released February 25th, 2022 via BMG, making it the former Smiths guitarist’s first album of new music since his 2018 release Call The Comet. …

Wolfgang Van Halen marked the one year anniversary of his father Eddie Van Halen’s death with a poignant and raw note on Twitter that read in part, “I’m trying to do my best here without you, but it’s really fucking hard. I hope you’re still proud.” The elder Van Halen …

Meek Mill offers an inside look at his life of luxury, as well as his inner turmoil, in the new music video for “Expensive Pain,” the title-track from his most recent LP. The video has an almost documentary feel to it, with the camera following Mill throughout his days and …

Even though Liam Gallagher recently fell out of a helicopter (he’s fine), he still had the energy this week topromise a “massive announcement” for Friday morning. While it’s not the reunion everyone is waiting for, it’s still a big deal for fans of the former Oasis singer: Gallagher revealed that …

For Brendon Babenzien, the founder of the New York-based menswear label Noah, music is everything. “If you’re somebody who’s interested in culture and style, you can’t really leave music out of that conversation,” he says. When I meet him at his brand’s SoHo storefront, he’s wearing an understated but tasteful …

Mark Hoppus announced on social media Wednesday that he is now cancer-free, three months after the Blink-182 bassist revealed that he had been battling an aggressive form of lymphoma. “Just saw my oncologist and I’m cancer free!!” Hoppus wrote in an Instagram post. “Thank you God and universe and friends …