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After performing their new song “Permission to Dance” earlier this week, BTS have returned to The Tonight Show with a special performance of “Butter.” The K-pop group filmed the rendition of the hit single from atop a bridge at night, complete with a massive light show and slick choreography. The …

Billy Bragg has announced his new album The Million Things That Never Happened, the British singer-songwriter and activist’s first collection of new music in four years. Ahead of the LP’s October 8th release via Cooking Vinyl, Bragg has dropped the first single “I Will Be Your Shield,” which he called …

Manhattan’s last remaining Kmart closed its doors forever earlier this week. The discount chain has been struggling for years to compete with Target, Walmart, and Amazon, and its parent company, Sears Holdings Corp., filed for bankruptcy in 2019. Kmart was bought by Transformco, who closed all but a couple dozen …

As streaming platforms continue to dominate the ways we listen to music, projects from rap’s great mixtape era are disappearing or becoming more difficult to find. With only a handful of iconic projects available to stream, thousands of hours of music have been lost to the digital wasteland. The first …

Since its beginnings as a group of British schoolboys in 1967, Genesis has had one of the weirdest journeys of any band, with a successful lead-singer transplant (drummer Phil Collins took over for Peter Gabriel in 1976) leading to an improbable jump from prog-rock pioneers to adult-contemporary hitmakers. With the …

UPDATE (7/9): Lil Baby was released from police custody in Paris, France Friday, July 9th, The Associated Press reports. The rapper received a fine for having marijuana in his car. Following his release, Lil Baby posted a photo on Instagram promoting an upcoming show along with the caption, “Thank You …

Tyler, the Creator beat Doja Cat to claim the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart. The rapper topped the chart for the first time after pulling in 163.6 million song streams for the week of June 25th through July 1st. The achievement followed the release of …

Jennifer Lopez and Rauw Alejandro have joined forces for a new single, “Cambia El Paso.” The fiery song marks Lopez’s first release of 2021, as well as her first collaboration with Alejandro. The pop track was produced by Jonas Jurström and Victor Thell, and engineered by Trevor Muzzy, with a …

Canadian singer-songwriter JP Saxe enlisted John Mayer for a performance of “Here’s Hopin’” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Thursday, July 1st. Saxe and Mayer delivered the song, mostly, as a delicately stripped-down guitar duet, with Saxe strumming on his acoustic and singing and Mayer providing some deft …

Yola embraces the idea that sex in all its forms — from monogamous relationships to fleeting one-night-stands — has value in the new song “Starlight.” She says it’s “a song about looking for positive physical, sexual and human connections at every level of your journey towards love.” The song arrives …