Scott Lapatine

The TikTok account Team Trump was launched by Donald Trump's campaign in late July 2024 and has used audio of Taylor Swift tracks, among other popular songs, since at least last year. Now Swift's team appears to have finally taken action.

Slipknot have finally confirmed turntablist #0 is out of the band after 28 years. Two weeks ago, TMZ reported that the metal group's original DJ, Sid Wilson, was notified that he'd been "permanently kicked out." Now the pink slip appears official.

Do you remember the great Banana Man controversy of summer 2026? At the Baltimore hardcore band End It's Toronto show in early June, frontman Akil

Olivia Rodrigo held her much-anticipated women-led Daisy Chain Fields in Irvine, CA last night. The inaugural event raised $10 million for women's rights nonprofits, and Melinda French Gates is doubling that amount with a $10 million donation through her charity Pivotal. At a press conference on Friday, Rodrigo said the artists and activists participating in Daisy Chain gave her hope amid the current "regression of women's rights."

Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been convicted of the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. The 63-year-old former South Side Compton Crips leader was arrested in 2023 and charged with orchestrating the drive-by shooting of the legendary rapper.

When she is at her absolute best, Mary J. Blige makes some of the most viscerally human music you ever heard in your life. That's what she has been doing ever since she arrived in the '90s. Her voice registers raw, convulsive emotions — heartbreak, betrayal, joy, indignity, distaste for hateration and holleration in this dancerie. When she sings something like "Real Love" or "I'm Goin' Down," you feel it in the pit of your soul. That's what makes her one of the greats, why her extremely of-the-moment commercial R&B records feel timeless. That's also why it's such a fucking drag to see her in a commercial for Suno, the generative AI music platform.

One month ago, Jane Remover issued an ultimatum to M3F Fest: Drop the Israeli alt-rock trio Temper City or they would no longer play next year's event. “yo get that idf band off the lineup or I'm not playing,” the genre-blurring experimental pop artist posted on Instagram Stories on Aug. 5. Tonight the Phoenix festival officially revealed an updated lineup, and Jane Remover has been removed.

The last time that all four Animal Collective members performed live together was almost exactly four years ago, when they were touring behind . In

Last week I went to the Norwegian Consulate in Manhattan, where all Norwegian musicians live when they play Bowery Ballroom (someone fact check that), and I ran into Sondre Lerche, the Bergen-born singer-songwriter who just released a lovely new album called 'Acrobats' on PLZ/Virgin. He's on tour in the US this month before heading home for a run of shows in Norway.

The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards are taking place tonight at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. The Emmys don't have Best Original Song and Best Original Score categories like the Oscars (though they should totally honor television's best needle drops), but the ceremony intersected with the music world in at a couple of ways.