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By the time the prosecution rested its case against R. Kelly on Monday, it had presented a formidable body of evidence against the disgraced singer: A woman testified that Kelly trapped her in his studio and raped her; a former backup dancer said she saw the singer perform oral sex …

Pearl Jam performed a handful of songs from their latest LP Gigaton live for the first time and paid tribute to Bruce Springsteen and Charlie Watts Saturday during the band’s headlining set at Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival, a gig that also marked Pearl Jam’s first concert in over …

Earlier this week, Rick Astley — a much less dour crooner from the north of England than Morrissey — performed a spritely and unexpected cover of the Smiths’ “This Charming Man” at a show in London. A few days later, the magic of the internet brought the clip to the …

Baby Keem raps in an exasperated rasp, with an abrupt rise in his tone, as if he were stunned by something he just recalled. That the Carson, California native has seen a lot in his 20 years is evident in each well-enunciated bar, which seems to boil down his distinctive …

While Drake is no stranger to the top of the Artists 500 chart, the rapper more than outdid himself and everyone else in the chart’s history as he took the Number One spot for the 32nd time with a record-smashing 793.8 million song streams. Drake’s remarkable tally following the release …

Dua Lipa will head out on her highly anticipated headlining tour next year. Lipa’s sophomore album Future Nostalgia was released in March 2020 and became one of the year’s biggest releases. The tour will span 28 dates across the US and Canada, including Lipa’s first headlining show at Madison Square …

The Kid Laroi will kick off a massive world tour next year. Dubbed the End of the World Tour, the North American leg will launch January 29th, 2022 at the Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, and wrap March 10th at the Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta, Georgia. A European tour …

Colombian singer J Balvin has established himself as one of reggaeton’s most successful ambassadors of the last decade—taking pleasure in the broad, often vague task of making music “para la cultura” (or to push “Latin culture” forward). But, on his fifth album, Jose, he tries to separate himself from his …

Jesse Dayton will release a memoir detailing his musical journey with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, punk bands like X and Social Distortion, and his own career as a solo artist this fall. Beaumonster is due November 9th with a companion album arriving a few days earlier on November 5th. Also …

Mastodon’s Brann Dailor spent his pandemic year embracing an unusual hobby: Drawing illustrations of clowns, in often terrifying settings. The fruits of that bizarre obsession will soon be shared with the world in the form of 101 Clowns of the Coronavirus, a book that the drummer will publish in partnership …