From the final Dreamville Fest to a beautiful, memory lane-traversing headlining set from J. Cole, this weekend belonged to North Carolina. And after Duke’s devastating loss on Saturday (April 5), that’s the least the universe could do. Related 7 Best Moments of Dreamville Fest 2025: J. Cole’s Memory Lane, Erykah Badu, Hot Boys Reunion… 04/07/2025 […]

With RuPaul’s Drag Race bringing back their Rate-a-Queen system for season 17, Billboard decided to rate each of the new queens every week based on their performance. Below, we look at the final main stage challenge of the season to see who made the cut for the finale. Spoilers ahead for episode 14. Fourteen episodes

When they relocated to New York in 2023, Pierre and Henry Beasley of alt-pop duo Balu Brigada certainly didn’t expect they’d end up sounding like a Big Apple band from 20 years earlier. “I used to be kind of cynical of that idea,” Henry says of the notion of a band’s music sounding like the

LISA is feeling emotional as she checks out of the White Lotus. Following the show’s finale, the BLACKPINK star reflected on her first-ever acting gig in a heartfelt Instagram post Tuesday (April 8), writing, “What a ride.” Related Here’s What ‘White Lotus’ Star Tayme Thapthimthong Had to Say About a Possible… 04/07/2025 “Thank you Mike

Artists working with record labels in Latin America have a higher percentage of monthly listeners and generate more revenue on digital platforms than those who are self-released, according to a new report by Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) and the Latin American Independent Music Observatory (OLMI) on digital distribution in the region. The report also shows

Sean “Diddy” Combs and federal prosecutors are locked in a pre-trial battle over a crucial question: Whether jurors can hear testimony from numerous other accusers beyond the four women at the core of the government’s case. In dueling court filings Monday, attorneys for the two sides exchanged heated arguments over the prosecution’s plan to call

Speaking to Howard Stern on Tuesday morning (April 8) just two days after the controversial season three finale of his hit HBO series The White Lotus, Mike White said he doesn’t really know what the beef over the the show’s soundtrack was all about. Last week, show composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer told the New

After years of restoration, research and archive digging, the Les Paul Foundation has opened the Les Paul Recording Studio as part of the historic United Recording facility in Los Angeles, California. Anyone who rents out the new Les Paul Recording Studio will have full access to record with Paul’s immaculately restored 8-track mixing console, known