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Taylor Swift only just wrapped up her two-year Eras Tour in December, but a recent mixup ahead of the upcoming 2025 Unbridled Eve Derby Gala led some fans to think that the pop star already had another trek set in stone. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news […]
Kendrick Lamar has signed on as a brand ambassador for Chanel, and he’ll appear in the French fashion house’s new eyewear campaign that will roll out on Tuesday (April 22). Business of Fashion exclusively reported the news on Monday. “I visited the Chanel ateliers and saw the process of how something goes from design to […]
Pope Francis, who died on Monday (April 21) at 88, will be remembered as one of the most consequential leaders of the Catholic Church. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Francis was the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff to inherit the sovereign of the Vatican City. He became head of the Roman […]
The Cure will revisit their 2024 album Songs of a Lost World on an upcoming remix collection entitled Mixes of a Lost World. The 24-track compilation will feature fresh spins on the songs from EDM stars Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold and Orbital and others.
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The album conceived and compiled by Cure singer Robert Smith will be released on June 13th through Fiction/Capitol Records and also come in a deluxe edition with additional remixes and reworks from Deftones frontman Chino Moreno, as well as Mogwai, 65daysofstatic, Gregor Tresher, Sally C, Daybreakers, Daniel Avery, meera and Trentemøller.
In a statement about the remix album, Smith said, “Just after Christmas I was sent a couple of unsolicited remixes of Songs of a Lost World tracks and I really loved them. The Cure has a colorful history with all kinds of dance music, and I was curious as to how the whole album would sound entirely reinterpreted by others.” The curiosity resulted in what he described as a “fabulous trip” through the original album’s expansive eight songs by 24 artists.
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All of the Cure’s recording royalties from the remix album will benefit War Child UK. The album will come in deluxe three LP, three-CD and three cassette formats with both the “artist and remixers” tracks, as well as two-LP/CD/cassette versions with just the remixers tracks. Songs of a Lost World was the Cure’s first new album in 16 years and the upcoming remix collection will mark their third such release, following on the heels of 2018’s Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 and 1990’s Mixed Up.
After the long break, Smith said in December that in addition to a live album, Songs of a Live World, that there is “another album which is pretty much ready to go,” one that he referred to as a “companion piece,” seemingly in reference to the remix album. He also said that there is a “third one which is completely different. It’s really kind of random stuff, it’s like late-night studio stuff.”
Listen to Four Tet and Oakenfold’s remixes below and check out the track listings for the deluxe editions of Mixes of a Lost World below.
3LP
VINYL 1
SIDE A
1. “I Can Never Say Goodbye” (Paul Oakenfold ‘Cinematic’ Remix)
2. “Endsong” (Orbital Remix)
3. “Drone:Nodrone” (Daniel Avery Remix)
4. “All I Ever Am” (meera Remix)
SIDE B
1. “A Fragile Thing” (Âme Remix)
2. “And Nothing Is Forever” (Danny Briottet & Rico Conning Remix)
3. “Warsong” (Daybreakers Remix)
4. “Alone” (Four Tet Remix)
VINYL 2
SIDE A
1. “I Can Never Say Goodbye” (Mental Overdrive Remix)
2. “And Nothing Is Forever” (Cosmodelica Electric Eden Remix)
3. “A Fragile Thing” (Sally C Remix)
4. “Endsong” (Gregor Tresher Remix)
SIDE B
1. “Warsong” (Omid 16B Remix)
2. “Drone:Nodrone” (Anja Schneider Remix)
3. “Alone” (Shanti Celeste ‘February Blues’ Remix)
4. “All I Ever Am” (Mura Masa Remix)
VINYL 3
SIDE A
1. “I Can Never Say Goodbye” (Craven Faults Rework)
2. “Drone:Nodrone” (JoyCut ‘Anti-Gravitational’ Remix)
3. “And Nothing Is Forever” (Trentemøller Rework)
4. “Warsong” (Chino Moreno Remix)
SIDE B
1. “Alone” (Ex-Easter Island Head Remix)
2. “All I Ever Am” (65daysofstatic Remix)
3. “A Fragile Thing” (The Twilight Sad Remix)
4. “Endsong” (Mogwai Remix)
3CD
CD1
1. “I Can Never Say Goodby” (Paul Oakenfold Cinematic Remix)
2. “Endsong” (Orbital Remix)
3. “Drone:Nodrone” (Daniel Avery Remix)
4. “All I Ever Am” (meera Remix)
5. “A Fragile Thing” (Âme Remix)
6. “And Nothing Is Forever” (Danny Briottet & Rico Conning Remix)
7. “Warsong” (Daybreakers Remix)
8. “Alone” (Four Tet Remix)
CD2
1. “I Can Never Say Goodbye” (Mental Overdrive Remix)
2. “And Nothing Is Forever” (Cosmodelica Electric Eden Remix)
3. “A Fragile Thing” (Sally C Remix)
4. “Endsong” (Gregor Tresher Remix)
5. “Warsong” (Omid 16B Remix)
6. “Drone:Nodrone” (Anja Schneider Remix)
7. “Alone” (Shanti Celeste ‘February Blues’ Remix)
8. “All I Ever Am” (Mura Masa Remix)
CD3
1. “I Can Never Say Goodbye” (Craven Faults Rework)
2. “Drone:Nodrone” (JoyCut ‘Anti-Gravitational’ Remix)
3. “And Nothing Is Forever” (Trentemøller Rework)
4. “Warsong” (Chino Moreno Remix)
5. “Alone” (Ex-Easter Island Head Remix)
6. “All I Ever Am” (65daysofstatic Remix)
7. “A Fragile Thing” (The Twilight Sad Remix)
8. “Endsong” (Mogwai Remix)
Fresh off headlining Coachella, Travis Scott made his return to WWE in Las Vegas on Sunday night (April 20) when La Flame crashed WrestleMania and took part in the action in the ring. In the midst of night two’s main event between John Cena and Cody Rhodes, “FE!N” blared through the Allegiant Stadium speakers and […]
Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a ninth total and consecutive week. The single, whose title honors late R&B legend Luther Vandross, who is sampled on the track, became Lamar’s sixth No. 1 and SZA’s third. Lamar and SZA each extend their longest career Hot 100 reigns with the song, whose official video premiered April 11.
Meanwhile, “Luther” passes 24kGoldn’s “Mood” (featuring iann dior), which led for eight weeks in 2020-21, for the sole second-longest Hot 100 command among rap hits this decade, after only Roddy Ricch’s “The Box,” which dominated for 11 weeks in 2020. (Rap titles are defined as those that have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart.)
Plus, Chappell Roan ties her best Hot 100 rank, as “Pink Pony Club” rises 5-4; Alex Warren’s first top 10, “Ordinary,” reaches the top five (7-5), and hits No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart; and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” at No. 7, breaks the record for the most weeks ever spent in the Hot 100’s top 10, as it adds a 58th week in the region, one-upping the run of The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.”
Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.
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Ed Sheeran brought the cozy pub experience to Coachella for fans to get tipsy and listen to music, but there was nothing ordinary about the set — featuring special guests Shaboozey and Alex Warren — he performed inside.
In videos posted to Instagram Sunday (April 20), the British pop star stands with an acoustic guitar in front of a small crowd gathered inside his Old Phone Pub pop-up, a structure specially created to make guests in the desert feel like they’re actually grabbing a pint at a hole-in-the-wall joint. But Sheeran isn’t alone. In one clip, ‘Boozey joins him to perform his record-tying 19-week Billboard Hot 100-topper “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” smiling as he sings in unison with the “Shape of You” musician before stepping out into the audience, inviting one woman to get up and dance with him.
In another clip, Sheeran welcomes breakout star Alex Warren, a TikToker whose hit “Ordinary” has rapidly propelled him to the top 10 of the Hot 100 this year. “I met this guy today for the first time,” Sheeran says before Warren steps up to the mic. “I’m so honored that he’s come to join us.”
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The pair then sings the heartfelt ballad together as Sheeran plays guitar. In the comments, the four-time Grammy winner wrote, “There’s like one song every year that blows my socks off, and it’s this one.”
“Such an incredible song and talent, such an honour having you down man, and congrats on everything, so deserved,” Sheeran, who also played the Mojave stage on Saturday (April 20), added of Warren and “Ordinary.”
Sunday marked the final day of Coachella 2025, which occurred over the course of two back-to-back weekends and saw headliners Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone take the main stages. The festival was only the latest host site for Sheeran’s Old Phone Pub, which the musician previously set up for one night only in Ipswich, Mass., to promote his new single, “Azizam,” ahead of upcoming album Play.
Watch Sheeran perform with ‘Boozey and Warren below.
Justin Bieber and wife Hailey Bieber have not yet shown the world what their seven-month-old son Jack Blues Bieber’s face looks like. But over the weekend, Beliebers got to witness in a major milestone for the couple’s first-born: Jack’s on his belly ready to crawl. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, […]
Thanks to SZA‘s debut album, Doechii was able to accept that the party was definitely over with an unsupportive ex years ago.
In a Cosmopolitan cover story published Monday (April 21), the Swamp Princess recalled how listening to Ctrl back when she was 18 enabled her to break things off with her then-boyfriend, who she says limited her creatively. “I was dating a guy who just wasn’t very supportive of my music, and it really stifled me,” she told the publication. “I stopped writing because he was just like, ‘That’s not cool.’ I took his opinion way too seriously when really he just didn’t get it.”
“I remember listening to SZA’s Ctrl for the first time, and it literally gave me the courage to break up with him,” Doechii continued. “I only bring that up because she inspired me to be vulnerable through my music in a way that I didn’t think I could be.”
The decision definitely paid off. Eight years later, Doechii is now the third woman to ever win best rap album at the Grammys — taking home the award in February for breakthrough mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal — and was crowned Billboard‘s 2025 Woman of the Year in March. She’s also in another relationship now, this time with a woman, about which she told Cosmo, “My literal existence as a queer Black woman is a major contribution to the hip-hop genre.”
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“I’m speaking truthfully from a queer Black woman’s perspective, and being honest about my life through my lens is amazing,” the Florida native added. “That perspective is being highlighted, and we need queer perspectives.”
Doechii’s praise for SZA comes as the two women share slots high up on the Billboard Hot 100, with the former’s first-ever top 10 hit, “Anxiety,” sitting at No. 14 on the chart dated April 19 while the latter’s “Luther” collaboration with Kendrick Lamar spends its eighth week at No. 1. And in her cover story, the “Denial Is a River” spitfire also gushed about another leading lady in music: Beyoncé.
“I relate to her efforts as a businesswoman and her leadership,” Doechii said. “She is the embodiment of an eloquent leader. I look up to the way that she handles her job, her fame, and her fans. She is the ultimate showgirl and professional artist.”
See Doechii on the cover of Cosmo below.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER will drop their new digital single, “Love Language,” on May 2. The upcoming song from SOOBIN, YEONJUN, BEOMGYU, TAEHYUN and HUENINGKAI was announced on Weverse on Monday morning (April 21) along with a digital cover image featuring a padlock with the password “Love Language” dialed into it. Explore Explore See latest videos, […]
