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Big Ears is set to take over downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, for its 2027 edition, which takes place April 1-4. Jeff Tweedy, Robert Glasper, Weyes Blood, Oneohtrix Point Never, Bill Frisell, and Dinner Party—the supergroup of Glasper, Terrace Martin, Kamasi Washington, and 9th Wonder—top the billing for the music, art, and film festival. Also listed are

Chief Keef has postponed a hometown Chicago concert that was set to be his first in the city in 14 years. (Although he headlined Lyrical Lemonade both earlier this year and in 2024, that’s technically in Bridgeview, Illinois.) The show, which was scheduled for September 12 at the Huntington Bank Pavilion, will now take place

The estate of the late Brent Hinds has sued Mastodon for paying what it deems too little compensation for the singer’s likeness and his share of the band’s companies, The Atlanta Jounal-Constitution reports. Hinds’ estate claims it received a check from the band for $80,000, ostensibly representing the sum of the singer-guitarist’s interests. The estate

We’ve been hearing about Quavo’s next studio album for months now, thanks to two previously released singles and a steady stream of clips of the Migos rapper recording on a yacht with Pharrell. Now we know when the full thing is arriving. Qrömelife, which was executive produced by the Neptunes co-founder, is dropping October 2

Enter this story with caution: Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon has made a meatloaf-themed jingle so deft, unctuous, and maddeningly catchy it will probably ruin your weekend. True to his folk locavore bona fides—though not his penchant for the ponderous and arcane—Vernon recorded the chirpy number to promote the Minnesota bar and grill Howard’s Bar, opened

A federal jury has found Lil Durk not guilty of plotting to kill Georgia rapper Quando Rondo. Durk has been in federal custody since 2024, when he was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit stalking, and stalking resulting in death. Prosecutors had argued the Grammy winner worked with a cohort

Modest Mouse and My Morning Jacket have recorded the latest entries in a Neil Young covers series so vast and rapidly expanding that you are probably recording your own contribution right now. The two bands’ takes on “Barstool Blues” and “Like a Hurricane” appear on volumes two and three of the Heart of Gold compilation series,

Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault. N.O.R.E. is facing allegations of sexual assault from a former music executive, who claims the Queens rapper and podcast host forcibly digitally penetrated her in a Manhattan nightclub in 1999. At the time, Carmen Bryan, who was working as the finance officer of Def Jam affiliate

The time has come to crank it once more. Slayyyter has released a sequel to her breakout spring hit “Crank,” appropriately titled “Crank 2.” She paired the song with a self-directed video, full of classic Slayyyter imagery and more hints to her rumored next album, Wor$t Man in America. Watch it below. It’s not the

Soul Glo are gearing up to release their first album since 2022. Due out January 15 on Epitaph, Na I’m Gon Grab Allat follows 2022’s Diaspora Problems, and features contributions from MIKE, Bbymutha, TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Eugene Robinson, and more. Today, they also shared a new song with Mannequin Pussy, “February Theory,”

Between recording two albums and playing the festival route across Europe, Beirut have been busy so far this decade. But Zach Condon and his bandmates haven’t been able to cross the pond in that time, and they’re looking to change that in 2027. Next spring, Beirut will finally perform their first North American tour in

Universal Pictures has announced a wave of additions to the cast of its forthcoming Snoop Dogg biopic, Variety reports. Among them is SwayvoTwain—aka Michael D’Angelo Archer Jr., the son of late neo-soul legends D’Angelo and Angie Stone—who will play Biggie Smalls. G Perico is also set to portray Big Reecie Cup, and one-time Ellen Show

Stevie Wonder is celebrating 50 years of his seminal album Songs in the Key of Life with a series of anniversary shows. The tour, which will see Wonder perform the record in full each show, kicks off in October in England and concludes at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome on December 19. Check out a full

During a mid-set break at this year’s Summer Sonic festival in Japan, a teaser highlighting old Radiohead footage with the words “Tokyo 2027” appeared on screen. A week later, multiple billboards with slightly different phrasing—“Radiohead 2027”—popped up around Tokyo’s Miyashita Park. What, exactly, the band had planned was further kept under wraps, but no longer.

Steven Hall, the musician who performs as Nirosta Steel, has issued an apology for following the accounts of what appeared to be AI-generated child actors on the popular Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as Red Note. On Monday, August 24, an X account with the username @simonwestgate shared a post that read, “now

Jan St. Werner, AKA one-half of the German electronic duo Mouse on Mars, has a new solo record on the way. Squares Will Fall, due out November 13 on Thrill Jockey, features contributions from Sufjan Stevens, Justin Vernon, Beirut’s Zach Condon, the National’s Ben Lanz, and more. You can listen to an excerpt of the

Bad Bunny is officially an Emmy award winner. At the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday night, his Super Bowl LX Halftime Show swept all seven categories it was nominated in. It made the Debí Tirar Más Fotos artist’s all-American spectacular the most-decorated nominee of the night. The special brought home the Emmy for Outstanding Variety

This weekend, Kanye West returned to Chicago for his first hometown sets since 2021. After numerous international show cancellations, a ban from the UK, and allegations that the rapper and producer’s most recent album was made with AI, Ye’s homecoming marked one of his most highly anticipated performances in years. Among the first night’s guests

M83 is readying a follow-up to 2023’s Fantasy: I Wrote You a Letter is due out September 25, via Anthony Gonzalez’s own Other Suns label. Below, hear the first single from the album, “Blister Sunrise.” Gonzalez made the new record with collaborators Joe Berry, Clément Libes, and Benoit de Villeneuve, he said in a post

The boys are fighting. This week, Yeat mysteriously vanished from Slime Language 3, the third installment of Young Thug’s YSL label compilation series. The rapper was originally featured on the track “Eaters” alongside Travis Scott, Future, and Tezzus before fans noticed on Monday (August 31) that his verse had been removed. Rumors swirled about another

Amelia Dimoldenberg has announced the final series of her long-running, algorithm-conquering interview series Chicken Shop Date. The deadpan host welcomed the likes of Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish, Dave, and Sabrina Carpenter across a 12-year run, posing acerbic, flirty, and fearless questions that used spontaneity and awkwardness to jolt guests off script. The decision to wind

Last week, Miley Cyrus announced plans to drop a new album, Bass Persuades, under the newly-adopted mononym Miley. Today, she returned with the first preview of the record, a pop-meets-post-punk title track accompanied by a video heavily inspired by leather culture. Watch the Mert Alas-directed video for “Bass Persuades” below. Bass Persuades follows Miley’s 2025

As they prepare to release the A. G. Cook-produced ZIRP! next month, Diiv have shared a new song, “Kid,” with a video from Jaxon Whittington. The director enlisted a couple of little pals to film the short: Diiv frontperson Zachary Cole Smith’s son Roy and his friend Julian. Watch the charming video below. The band’s

Four days after Say Anything’s Max Bemis cancelled a series of acoustic performances amid allegations he sent inappropriate messages to underage fans, Wavves’ Nathan Williams has weighed in on the status of the duo’s upcoming collab album, Cherry Soda. “Going back into the studio on Monday and I will finish this as a proper wavves

After a five-year break from studio releases, Andy Stott has returned to his toolbox for a new album. Late Loop, a press release notes, is the product of fewer tools than usual: The British producer made the record using no basslines, no reverb, and no effects but a delay unit. The follow-up to Never the

Jason Isbell and several other artists are suing the AI platform Suno for allegedly generating music based on their names without permission, reports The Wall Street Journal. The 400 Unit frontman filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boston, alongside artists Guy Forsyth, Eduardo Calle, and Camper Van Beethoven’s David Lowery. “Jason Isbell’s musical

Kali Malone has announced a new album, Burning Song, her solo follow-up to 2024’s All Life Long. Joined by Stephen O’Malley on guitar and Lucy Railton on cello, Malone recorded the album at Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany—the church where Johann Sebastian Bach served as cantor for the last 27 years of his life and was