Lizzo had a major surprise for fans on Monday (Aug. 9), when she announced the special guest joining her on the upcoming single “Rumors.” Actually, it was such a surprise that even the feature was caught off guard. “Good morning, motherf—er! That’s who it’s featuring y’all, period,” said Lizzo in the FaceTime video of her […]

Snoop Dogg thinks it’s time for some fundamental change. In a “Corner Office” interview with The New York Times, the rapper and entrepreneur said that it’s time corporate America stopped treating Black people “like they’re less.” Asked what he thinks about NBA icons Kevin Durant and Steph Curry making investments in startups, Snoop zeroed in on

Country icon Reba McEntire knows that the long, hard COVID-19 lockdown has been emotionally taxing for everyone. But in a 30-minute TikTok livestream over the weekend, she revealed that it’s definitely too early to just go back to normal right now, and that she and her boyfriend, Max Linn, both tested positive for the novel

Despite opposition from the start — mostly from men, including her own father — Liz Dunster established the heavy metal-focused vinyl label Erika Records in 1980. A year later, she added a vinyl manufacturing plant in a bid to have tighter control of the creative aspects and quality of vinyl she released on her label.

Adriel Favela, the young singer/composer of regional Mexican music who’s known for his traditional fare as well as for a recent collaboration with Spanish rapper C. Tangana, has inked a recording and production deal with regional Mexican behemoth Fonovisa Records, owned by Universal Music Latino. Favela, born in San Francisco and raised in both Mexico

Less than a week after a triumphant main stage set at a full-capacity Lollapalooza in Chicago, Limp Bizkit have canceled their summer tour. The theater sprint by the 1990s nu-metal survivors — dubbed the “Limited Last Minute Post Pandemic Popup Party Edition” — was slated to run through an August 24 show at the Palladium

In October 1988, Angie Roloff and her husband Ron opened Strictly Discs in Madison, Wisconsin, after Ron left a career in the biomedical research field to pursue his love of music full time. Nearly 31 years later, the couple made the difficult decision to shutter in-store operations due to COVID-19, roughly a week before Gov. Tony Evers

The couple that posts together stays together. Or so Katy Perry says. The singer and American Idol judge playfully dinged longtime love and fianceé Orlando Bloom over the weekend when he made a serious social media faux pas while the pair were on a what looked like an otherwise lovely get-away in Capri, Italy. Bloom

After several delays, the first phase of the sex trafficking trial of R&B hitmaker R. Kelly will begin with jury selection Monday (August 9) in New York City. A judge in federal court in Brooklyn will question potential jurors about whether they can keep an open mind about Kelly two years after he was charged with abusing

Universal Music Australia has launched an independent investigation following allegations of inappropriate behavior within its ranks. The music giant’s affiliate in Sydney has tapped Darren Perry at law firm Seyfarth Shaw to conduct a probe into workplace culture, after a string of allegations emerged online and an internal complaint was lodged with HR, according to