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Dead & Company have released new details about the Grateful Dead 60th-anniversary concerts at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from Aug. 1-3, including the announcement of special guests booked to play each show. Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings will open the Aug. 1 concert, while singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson, performing as Johnny Blue Skies, will perform Aug. […]
Glasses Malone is confident Kendrick Lamar is going to respond to Joey Bada$$ in due time. On Tuesday (May 20), Malone — who was shouted out by Lamar at the Grammys earlier this year — was asked on X if he thought Lamar should respond to Joey’s recent string of freestyles where he mentions the […]
Miley Cyrus is just over a week away from releasing her next album, Something Beautiful. But before she does, she’s reflecting on all the steps she needed to take to get to this moment, from taking control of her sobriety to winning a Grammy for her smash hit “Flowers.”
In an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe posted Wednesday (May 21), the pop star opened up about how cutting out substances didn’t just change her life for the better, but ultimately paved the way for her to find unprecedented success with her Endless Summer Vacation album. “I’ve learned this about myself over the years,” she told Lowe. “The sobriety is like, that’s like my God. I need it, I live for it. I mean that it’s changed my entire life.”
Cyrus also got candid about how her attempt at sobriety around the time of her 2020 album Plastic Hearts went awry. “I know I needed to fall one more time,” she explained. “I just, I had to. It just never would have happened this way. I just never would have been sitting here. There were times in that section … I’m not proud of them. Definitely not my best moments, not some of my best work, any of that. But it all led me to writing ‘Flowers,’ which then was some sort of key right into the lock of all healing.”
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Released in 2023 as the lead single from Endless Summer Vacation, “Flowers” spent eight weeks atop the Hot 100 — completely blowing past the run of Cyrus’ only other No. 1 single so far, “Wrecking Ball,” which remained at the chart’s summit for three weeks in 2013. The self-love anthem would go on to win the Hannah Montana alum her first-ever Grammys — best pop solo performance and record of the year — at the 2024 ceremony.
In her interview with Lowe, Cyrus said that earning the Recording Academy recognition was just as “healing” as writing and releasing the song had been. “I think somewhere inside of me, I needed maybe to hold a trophy and just feel for a moment that I have something that I can hold in my hands that feels like a true achievement,” she explained. “And so at the Grammys, that’s why I went, it was actually for healing.”
The moment was particularly fateful as Cyrus says she originally wasn’t even going to go to the Grammys. In addition to suffering from extreme performance anxiety at the time, she also confided in Lowe that she was afraid to acknowledge to herself at the time just how much she wanted to win.
“There was somewhere that I was avoiding this, the fact that it did matter to me somewhere,” she shared. “And so once I received my Grammy, I was like, look, when you Google me, it says ‘Miley Cyrus, a Grammy Award-winning artist.’”
Pretty soon, Google will also say that Cyrus has released nine albums, with Something Beautiful set to drop on May 30. Led by singles “More to Lose,” “End of the World,” “Prelude” and its title track, the LP doubles as a visual album, with its accompanying film hitting theaters for one night only in June.
Two days prior to her Apple Music interview, the “We Can’t Stop” vocalist also unveiled the Something Beautiful tracklist, featuring collaborations with Brittany Howard and Naomi Campbell.
Watch Cyrus’ full Zane Lowe interview below.
DaBaby has won a court order tossing out assault and battery claims over a 2022 brawl with the brother of his ex-girlfriend DaniLeigh, though the rapper could still be on the hook financially as the case continues against a bowling alley where the attack allegedly occurred. Los Angeles County judge Huey P. Cotton released an […]
Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) teamed up with YoungBoy Never Broke Again for their long-rumored collaboration “Alive.”
The distorted track has yet to hit streaming services, as West released “Alive” through his Instagram on Wednesday (May 21). “ALIVE YE X NBA YoungBoy YZY SZN 10,” he wrote in the caption.
Production-wise, “Alive” sounds like it could be from the same family tree as Yeezus standout “New Slaves,” free of drum kicks and snares. “This that n—a been stealin’ the swag, they know damn well they ain’t invent/ This that n—s ain’t rich, they broke, want a blessing and they ain’t even repent,” Ye raps on the opening verse.
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“Alive” samples DJ Swamp Izzo’s version of “Alive,” which is featured as part of Playboi Carti’s “Crank” track.
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YoungBoy takes the baton and aims at his detractors. “I’ll put the b—h on and blick ’em, them youngins gon’ load up and get ’em, they catch em and stretch ’em/ .223, it ain’t missin’ a beat, we gon’ pray up to Heaven and step in eleven,” he spews.
NBA YoungBoy has long been a fan of West and shown his support to Ye over the years on tracks like 2022’s “This Not a Song, This for My Supporters,” which finds him telling Ye to stand his ground. “It hurt my heart that Kanye let them people break his soul/ How the f— that go? N—a, stay in yo’ home!/ N—a, hold your ground! You strong,” he raps in support of the embattled star.
YB also previewed an unreleased song in November 2023, which featured a sample of West’s 2010 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy single “Power.”
“RIP to the Donda, now I’m the biggest scholar,” YoungBoy rhymes. “I got my own playlist, I say Kanye’s better.”
West has been entrenched in various controversies over the last few months, as he’s spewed anti-semitic and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on his social media platforms. Ye’s concert slated for South Korea on May 31 was cancelled due to “recent controversies” surrounding the rapper.
Yeezy also claimed that his controversial “Heil Hitler“ song was banned from DSPs after attempting to release the track earlier in May. He even walked off the set of an appearance on Piers Morgan’s Uncensored show earlier this month, within minutes of the sit-down.
Listen to “Alive” below.
Live Nation has elected acting Kennedy Center president and Donald Trump ally Richard Grenell to its board of directors, according to a recent disclosure from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Grenell was appointed to run the federally owned performing arts center in February following a Trump-led shakeup that saw the President appoint himself chairman of […]
Chris Brown has spoken out for the first time since being released on a $6.7 million bail by a London judge. C. Breezy posted to his Instagram Story on Wednesday (May 21), celebrating the fact that he regained his freedom after nearly a week behind bars. “FROM THE CAGE TO THE STAGE!!!” Brown wrote in […]
May 16-18 marked the annual dance mega-festival EDC Las Vegas, which went down at its longtime home at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The always hefty lineup this year featured more than 250 artists playing across 15 areas and stages, which this year included the new Ubuntu stage dedicated to Afro house. The lineup included […]
Bruce Springsteen is doubling down on his stance that the United States government is “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous,” even after his remarks on the subject at a Manchester concert infuriated President Donald Trump last week.
One week after criticizing the Trump administration during a speech at his European tour kickoff show in England — leading the twice-impeached POTUS to launch into a series of vitriolic posts targeting him on Truth Social — the Boss has released a Land of Hopes & Dreams EP featuring a recording of the address as its opening track. “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,” he says in the audio snippet. “Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring.”
The rocker then dives into 2001’s “Land of Hopes & Dreams,” which is also the name Springsteen’s ongoing tour.
In addition to the politically charged speech, the six-track project also features live takes of the musician and his band performing “Long Walk Home,” “My City of Ruins” and “Chimes of Freedom” in Manchester. There’s also a three-and-a-half-minute recording of Springsteen once again critiquing the state of American politics later in the show.
“In my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain that they inflict on American workers, they’re rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and moral society,” he says in the clip. “They’re abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom.”
The EP comes shortly after Trump responded to Springsteen’s onstage remarks by calling him “highly overrated” and “dumb as a rock” on Truth Social, adding at the time, “This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare.’”
Later, the billionaire accused the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer — along with Beyoncé, Oprah and Bono — of taking part in an “illegal election scam” for Kamala Harris, alleging that he accepted an undisclosed payment from the 2024 Democratic nominee to endorse her for president. (Campaign finance records do not support this claim, and Harris’ campaign has denied paying any artist for their support in last year’s election.)
Trump still hadn’t let the matter go as of Wednesday, when he shared an edited video of himself golfing — and appearing to hit and knock over Springsteen with his ball — on Truth Social hours after the Land of Hopes & Dreams EP dropped.
But despite Trump’s counters, Springsteen hasn’t ever backed down on his firm stance against the president’s policies. The E Street bandleader has long been vocal about his beliefs, telling The Atlantic in 2020 that he believed Trump — who in May 2024 was convicted of 34 felony counts in a hush money trial — to be a “threat to our democracy.”
Also in 2024, Springsteen proudly endorsed Harris and played at a number of her campaign events. He also appeared in an advertisement for the former VP’s campaign, telling viewers, “This election is about a group of folks who want to fundamentally undermine our American way of life … Donald Trump does not understand this country, its history, or what it means to be deeply American.”
Cardi B will receive the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Voice of the Culture Award, recognizing her groundbreaking influence on music and culture. On Wednesday (May 21), ASCAP announced that Cardi would be honored with the award for 2025, which comes after Usher received the award last year. “Cardi B has left an […]
