Dusty Hill, the hirsute bass player with ZZ Top, has passed away at 72. He’ll be “greatly missed,” say his surviving bandmates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard, and he certainly won’t be forgotten. The Texas blues-rock trio unleashed a string of hits, including “Legs,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” “La Grange,” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’” and […]

DaBaby is once again addressing his homophobic comments made onstage at Rolling Loud Miami, this time with a new music video. The “Giving What It’s Supposed to Give” video, released Wednesday afternoon (July 28), ends with a rainbow-colored message that says “Don’t Fight Hate With Hate,” as well as “My apologies for being me the

John Mayer’s Sob Rock rules Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, as the singer-songwriter’s latest studio set debuts atop the list (dated July 31). The set sold 61,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending July 22, according to MRC Data — the biggest debut sales week for an album in nearly two months, since

Head in the Clouds festival is returning with a stacked lineup. The Southern California festival will feature live performances from Japanese Breakfast, Saweetie, CL, DPR Live and Beabadoobee.   Created by music and media company 88Rising in partnership with Goldenvoice, the festival will expand to two days at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Nov. 6-7. Head in the Clouds Music & Arts Festival will also feature 88rising flagship

Japanese pop artist Haru Nemuri dropped her latest single, “Old Fashioned,” and also shared the accompanying lyric video. The track directly expressing the alternative singer-songwriter’s anger and feeling of resignation towards society was mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Chris Gehringer of Sterling Sound, who has worked on Haru’s previous singles including “Seventh Heaven.” The new lyric

Matt Thomas doesn’t care if you call Parmalee’s resurgent success a comeback. “You never want to think about it like that, because we’ve been working and working — but I guess it is,” says Thomas, the group’s frontman. “People believed in us, but they were just waiting for us to get that next song. Everybody

The hordes of people expected to descend on Chicago’s Grant Park for the Lollapalooza music festival this week will be required to show proof that they’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19 or tested negative for the disease within the last three days. The four-day festival starts Thursday and is expected to be back at full capacity,

Are more lullabies in Ricky Martin’s future? The Latin superstar and dad of four reveals in his updated episode of Behind the Music airing Thursday (July 29) that he’s open to having more children with husband Jwan Yosef, and Billboard has an exclusive first look. In the clip, the Puerto Rican artist opens up about his beloved

After DaBaby was roundly criticized for his homophobic comments onstage at Rolling Loud Miami on Sunday night, GLAAD has released a response, calling the rapper’s remarks “inaccurate, hurtful, and harmful” to the LGBTQ community and those living with HIV. During his set at Rolling Loud’s closing night, DaBaby told the crowd, “If you didn’t show

Posty Fest is back. On Wednesday (July 28), Post Malone announced that he will host and headline the third annual Posty Fest on Halloween weekend, Oct. 30 and 31. In an effort to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, this year’s festivities will take place outside of AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Special pre-sale tickets will