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A Broadway jukebox musical about “Weird Al” Yankovic is in the works, Deadline reports. Titled Dare to Be Stupid, its soundtrack will be comprised of parody songs from throughout Yankovic’s extensive spoof oeuvre, including “White & Nerdy” (his take on “Ridin’” by Chamillionaire), “Amish Paradise” (Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”), “Eat It” (“Beat It”), “Like a Surgeon”

Bloc Party have a new album on the way. The London band enlisted Trevor Horn for Anatomy of a Brief Romance, their follow-up to the 2022 LP Alpha Games. Listen to the single “Coming on Strong” below. Kele Okereke says he wrote the record in the wake of a more than decade-long relationship. “Every lyric

Rostam Batmanglij produced Clairo’s 2019 debut Immunity, and together they crafted the masterpiece (and third best song of that year) that is “Bags.” Seven years later, the pair has reunited for the latest single from Rostam’s forthcoming album American Stories. Titled after the late French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, “Hardy” is built around a sample of

Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold their recorded music catalog to Warner Music Group for more than $300 million, reports Billboard. The deal includes all of the band’s recorded output, including their 13 studio albums, which reportedly generate around $26 million annually. Although the band owned their recorded catalog independently for the past year, during

Dua Lipa has sued Samsung over its use of her image on cardboard packaging for some of its televisions, which the singer says she did not consent to. Lipa is seeking “no less than $15 million” in damages for “copyright infringement, trademark infringement and misappropriation of Plaintiff’s likeness and image.” In a complaint filed on

London-based instrumentalist and poet Alabaster Deplume’s new album came to fruition last year, after a fervent period of touring with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Tcheser Holmes in support of A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole. But the roots of the project date back to 2024, when Plume found himself in occupied Palestine working

PinkPantheress has released a dizzying, extremely British video for her Fancy That single “Girl Like Me.” The Lauzza-directed short opens with an introduction by the British institution Davina McCall—the TV personality who rose to ubiquity as the host of Big Brother—before PinkPantheress dances through a London-themed, cut-and-paste assemblage of moving walkways and synchronised dances, interspersed

Last year, Oasis announced that their momentous 2025 comeback would be documented in a concert film called Oasis Live ’25. Now, the film is set for release at select theaters on September 11—and is “currently untitled,” according to a press release. After a short run in theaters, the documentary will stream on Disney+ and Hulu.

Muna just released their new album, Dancing on the Wall, and now they’ve lined up a sprawling run of shows across the U.S., UK, and Europe. The Gets So Hot Tour officially kicks off September 17 in Phoenix and runs through November. Muna will also spend the summer hitting festivals including Lollapalooza and D.C.’s All

Beastie Boys’ Mike D has released his first song as a solo artist, “Switch Up.” The song, which was produced by the band and Carter Lang, is the first new music from any singular Beastie Boy since 2011’s Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Check it out below. “Switch Up” began as an experiment in Mike

Hayley Williams is still on her Hayley Williams at a Bachelorette Party Tour but she already has plans for a new one. Her next run, “The Hayley Williams Show,” is set to launch in September and will take the Paramore singer across both North and South America. Magdalena Bay, Rico Nasty, and Annie DiRusso will

Father John Misty has a new song, “The Payoff,” out on Sub Pop. He co-produced the track with Drew Erickson, who has worked on Father John Misty’s past two albums and is also a frequent collaborator of Lana Del Rey and Angel Olsen. Give the song a listen below. “The Payoff” is Josh Tillman’s second

Wilco frontman and noted crossword aficionado Jeff ______ (6 letters; like a popular suiting fabric) has written the New York Times’ monthly bonus crossword for May. The grid’s theme is “My Life Was Saved by Rock ’N’ Roll,” with answers that reference songs by both Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, as well as several

Kelela is releasing her third album this summer. Out July 10, New Avatar pays homage to the singer-songwriter’s early days writing music in the D.C. indie scene, before she made a pivot to electronic-tinged R&B. The full-length blends shoegaze, grunge, R&B, and electronic music, and features collaborations with PinkPantheress, A. K. Paul, and Fousheé. To

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It’s the first Monday in May, which means celebrities have already begun to converge on New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala. This year’s dress code is “Fashion Is Art,” which asks guests to “consider the many ways that designers use the body as their blank canvas,” per Vogue. Beyoncé, Nicole

Dolly Parton has scrapped her upcoming six-date Las Vegas residency due to ongoing health issues. The 80-year-old singer-songwriter was originally set to perform at Caesar’s Palace in December 2025 before she postponed those shows (also due to health issues) to September 2026. Now, she’s shared on Instagram that she won’t make the new dates either.

Last night, Olivia Rodrigo hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time, playing double duty as musical guest. With a little luck on her side courtesy of last week’s musical guest Jack White, Rodrigo ; played “Drop Dead,” the lead single off her forthcoming album You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love;

Shakira performed a massive free show in Brazil last night at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. The performance featured some of the Colombian superstar’s most enduring hits, a few special guests, and, according to Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Cavaliere, it drew an estimated crowd of two million people. Check out footage from the

The Magnetic Fields’ Stephen Merritt and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold appeared on the East Village Radio show “Elia Vs.” today (April 30) to chat with host Elia Einhorn and play a few songs, including the Magnetic Fields’ classic “Book of Love.” Check it out below, and listen to the full episode here. “Book of Love”

On top of her cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2, Lady Gaga contributed three original songs to the film’s soundtrack. She already shared one of them, the frothy Doechii collab “Runway,” and the other two—“Shape of a Woman” and “Glamorous Life” (regrettably not a Sheila E. cover)—are out today. Check them out below. The

If you thought the thrown-out terrorism charge, the ban from multiple different countries, and the ire of dozens of Parliament politicians was enough to tone down Irish rap trio Kneecap’s blistering rebuke of British presence in Ireland and international imperialism at large—well, think again. Fenian, their latest, pairs the group with Fontaines D.C. and Wet

James Garfield Broadnax was executed by lethal injection last night, April 30, at Texas State Penitentiary, Rolling Stone reports. Broadnax had been convicted of double murder in 2009, at the age of 19, and his case had become a cause célèbre in ongoing debates over the use of rap lyrics in court. As recently as

Isaiah Rashad has tapped TDE labelmate SZA for a new song, “Boy in Red.” It’s the second preview of Rashad’s forthcoming album It’s Been Awful, following lead single, “Same Sh!t” and arrives alongside a visual featuring a pickup truck rattling across a remote mountain landscape carrying two girlfriends sharing a joint in the backseat. Check

Jpegmafia is back with a bruising new single called “Babygirl,” the first offering from the rapper’s forthcoming album Experimental Rap. You can check out the song’s music video and album cover art below, alongside dates for a fall North American tour. The solo LP, his sixth, drops May 21 on AWAL. Experimental Rap—which an accompanying

In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was murdered on the Las Vegas strip. The case stumped investigators for decades until 2023, when Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis was ultimately arrested for the killing. On Tuesday, attorneys for Maurice Shakur, Shakur’s stepbrother, filed a new wrongful death lawsuit to find out if there are other parties involved

Yesterday, Alex G uploaded two new songs to his personal YouTube channel. That wouldn’t be a big deal if it hadn’t been six years since he last posted on it, or if he wasn’t signed to a major label. But apparently RCA is cool with his DIY instincts, because “Good Green Friend” and “In the

Cornelius, the project of Japanese composer Keigo Oyamada, is launching a new phase. Off the back of a burst of TikTok virality, Oyamada has signed to Eat Your Own Ears and released a cover of a Japanese Balearic classic: Yosui Inoue’s 1990 song “Yumenemi” (or “Yume Ne Mi”). Check it out below. The new music