Over the past year, Roblox has hosted immersive virtual concerts with artists like Lil Nas X and Twenty One Pilots. Now, the gaming platform is inviting artists to stream entire albums in the metaverse through virtual listening parties. For its first-ever listening party, Roblox is teaming with Grammy-nominated musical chameleon Poppy and her record label […]

For Marlon Craft, there are more similarities than he might even realize between being a diehard New York Knicks fan and an independent rapper attempting to navigate the arduous maze to hip-hop’s inner circle. No matter how many times the Knicks — who have won just one playoff series in 20 years — or the

Despite the lyrics of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Kurt Cobain was far from stupid. Even so, he probably didn’t know that the music Nirvana created on Nevermind — released 30 years ago on Sept. 24, 1991 — would be so contagious that it would infect not just Gen X, but continue to make its presence felt amongst

The Weeknd, H.E.R., Motown chairman/CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam and attorneys Dina LaPolt and Ben Crump were among the honorees at the Black Music Action Coalition’s first annual Music in Action Awards on Thursday night (Sept. 23). The inaugural event took place at the 1 Hotel in West Hollywood. BMAC executive board member Willie “Prophet” Stiggers set

Before her unexpected death 26 years ago, Selena Quintanilla’s career was just beginning to grow internationally, and her music clips started to conquer (at that time) major music video channels. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we gathered the clips that we all love and remember the Queen of Tejano, as she was called, because she

Kings of Leon have flown home to be by their ailing mother’s side. The group — fronted by brothers Caleb, Jared and Nathan Followil — informed fans on Thursday (Sept. 23) that they would be unable to perform their planned show that night at Shoreline Amphitheatre in San Francisco in order to spend time with

There are several things James Corden is very good at — but being a personal assistant is definitely not one of them. Rihanna found that out the hard way on Thursday night (Sept. 23) when Corden descended on the set of her “Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 3″ as part of his latest “Take a

Run the Jewels already minted a stone classic with their 2020 single “Ooh La La” featuring Greg Nice and DJ Premier and a killer sample of Gang Starr’s 1992 track “Dwyck.” But on the brand new digital deluxe version of their RTJ4 album they rope in Lil Wayne for a guest verse on a remix

As co-owner of Seattle’s popular independent venue Neumos in Capitol Hill, Steven Severin has been a staple in the Seattle music industry for more than 20 years. Roughly 10 years ago, he helped create the Seattle Nightlife and Music Association to bring together the area’s live event insiders, and for the past 16 years has helped run

Lil Nas X claims the Australian albums chart crown on debut with Montero (Columbia/Sony), his first full-length album. It’s another in a growing list of accolades for the U.S. hip-hop star, whose debut single “Old Town Road” (Columbia/Sony) cruised to No. 1 on the national chart in 2019, and stayed there for 13 weeks. Montero features