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Billboard Women in Music 2025 Lil Nas X feels lucky to have Camila Cabello in his friend orbit. The rapper who has been sprinkling singles all over the place in the lead-up to the release of his as-yet-unscheduled Dreamboy album, told Paper magazine that the “I Luv It” singer was really there for him when […]
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You’ve already had your “hot girl summer,” so, naturally, it’s time for “single girl summer.” At least it is according to the caption on an Instagram post from Haim on Tuesday (April 1), in which the sister trio previewed another song from their upcoming fourth album. In the clip, the siblings chill out on a stoop as lead singer Danielle lip synchs along over the marching drum-like beat as blasé New Yorkers walk through frame without breaking stride.
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“Renters’ rights, squatters’ rights/ I’ll be the gatekeeper for the rest of my life,” she sings along to the funky rhythm. “I don’t want your charity/ Spend a night in the cold if it keeps me free,” she adds. While the group only provided a 12-second preview of the song, the self-actualized nature of the lyrics are in keeping with the theme of the untitled album’s first single, “Relationships,” which delved into the hot-cold nature of affairs of the heart.
As if any other clues were needed that the new album might lean into the labor of love lost, the caption over the video reads: “this is your sign to leave him.”
At press time the trio also featuring drummer Alana and bassist Este Haim have not announced the title, or release date, of their upcoming album, the follow-up to 2020’s Women in Music Pt. III. In a recent interview in i.d. magazine, self-proclaimed “serial monogamist” Danielle said the new album is the first they’ve made without the involvement of her longtime boyfriend, producer Ariel Rechtshaid, and that she’s single for the first time since 2011. “Being single now, I’m just trying to embrace it, because I’m… I feel like I’m the age where I need to embrace it,” she said.
Alana said that the album is “the closest we’ve ever gotten to how we wanted to sound,” with Danielle diplomatically adding that working again with another longtime collaborator Rostam was “very quick, kinetic with him, which I really love as an artist… Maybe before, it wasn’t that way, it was kind of a more… longer, searching, labored situation.”
According to the article, the proof is in the meat of songs such as opening track “Gone,” described as a “blast of post-breakup energy that feels like one long, cathartic scream after years of pushing everything down thanks to lyrics such as: “You can hate me for what I am/ You can shame me for what I’ve done/ You can’t make me disappear/ You never saw me for what I was.” The track reportedly features an as-yet-uncleared sample from George Michael’s “Freedom ’90.” In a tribute to her love of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Danielle said she was inspired by the samples on that album, noting, “It doesn’t feel ‘F–k you’ to me — it feels like… ‘I’m gonna do my thing.’”
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Bruce Springsteen has paid tribute to Joe DePugh, the New Jersey pitcher who inspired his hit song “Glory Days,” following news of DePugh’s death this week at the age of 75.
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“Just a moment to mark the passing of Freehold native and ballplayer Joe DePugh,” Springsteen wrote in an Instagram post on March 30. “He was a good friend when I needed one. ‘He could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool’ …. Glory Days my friend.”
DePugh and Springsteen grew up together in Freehold, N.J., and played baseball in the same youth league. Their now-legendary chance encounter at a bar in 1973 served as the real-life basis for one of the most iconic verses on Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. album.
DePugh later confirmed the moment in interviews, recalling how the two reconnected outside the Headliner in Neptune, then spent hours catching up inside.
“Whenever we’re together, it’s the same dynamic: I’m the star and he’s the guy at the end of the bench,’ said DePugh to the Palm Beach Post in 2011. “That’s who he has always been to me, my right fielder.”
” … Once I saw Bruce we went back in and closed the place. He had a little entourage with him. They all sat in a booth, but it was just me and him at the bar. All of a sudden, it’s 1:30 (a.m.) and they started blinking the lights.”
“Glory Days” reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985, and DePugh told the Palm Beach Post that he was “tickled pink I would even get into the song.”
“When I first heard the song, I thought the song said ‘and all we kept talking about was glory days,’ “ said DePugh. “And years later, I finally saw the lyrics and saw ‘all he kept talking about was glory days.’ And I thought, ‘Huh, (he) took a little shot at me!’
DePugh and Springsteen remained friends throughout their lives, occasionally crossing paths in Palm Beach County, where Springsteen owns a home and DePugh lived in Lake Worth.
DePugh died after a battle with cancer. He is remembered fondly by friends, including longtime Freehold teacher and coach Rich Kane, who said: “All he wanted to do was raise his brothers, play baseball, play basketball and just hang in Freehold Borough. This one hurt. Joe and I were very close.”
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Ecca Vandal just had her “pinch me” moment on tour with Limp Bizkit. While opening for the nu-metal icons on their Loserville European tour, the Melbourne-raised punk-pop force was joined on stage by none other than Fred Durst himself.
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The moment went down in Frankfurt on March 31, as Vandal performed her latest single, “Cruising to Self Soothe.” Mid-set, Durst made a surprise entrance to sing alongside her, to the roar of the crowd.
“Make some noise for Fred Durst,” she shouted, adding, “What a f—ing honor!” Later, she posted a clip of the performance on Instagram with the caption: “Cruising with Fred Durst.” The Limp Bizkit frontman responded with a smiling emoji and fire emojis.
Durst has long been a fan of the genre-defying South African-born artist, previously calling her new single “legendary.” “Cruising to Self Soothe,” released in late February, is Vandal’s first new music of 2025 and follows her support slot for IDLES earlier this year. The gritty, empowering track explores personal strength and liberation in the face of isolation.
“This song is about cultivating your inner strength when navigating life on your own, even when it feels a bit isolating,” she explained. “It’s about that pivotal moment when you recognise that you’re stronger without the people who were weighing you down.”
Vandal continued: “Even when others are waiting for you to fall, you’re still rising — stronger than ever.”
The Loserville tour, featuring support acts Karen Díó, Bones, N8NOFACE, and Riff Raff, wraps up tonight at the Accor Arena in Paris. Vandal has been a standout opener throughout the run, bringing her explosive stage presence to a whole new audience.
After four years without solo releases, Vandal returned in 2024 and 2025 with new music and continued collaborations with acts like Birdz, Illy, DZ Deathrays and Void of Vision. Her self-titled debut album dropped in 2017.
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Incendiary Swedish rockers The Hives are readying themselves for a big year, with a new album announced alongside a global run of tour dates.
The veteran quintet – who celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2023 – shared the news of their seventh album in a press release on Tuesday (April 1), with the announcement taking the form of an open letter formally addressed to “whom it may concern,” but clarified to mean “everyone.”
“This message is to inform you that International Rock Sensation The Hives, the best live band on the planet and still your new favourite band, lauded on all continents for their masterful skill and reckless abandon in the rock music field, have once again, sooner than you expected, created a new body of work the likes of which have never been heard or indeed probably will again,” the message began.
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“A new record so full of energy, joy, anger and life that you will be questioning reality as you have known it,” it continued. “They finally did it. Every single song a single, every single single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man.”
The record in question is titled The Hives Forever Forever The Hives and will be released via Play It Again Sam on Aug. 29. According to the press release, the 13-track album was “crafted with commitment, abandon and skill in Sweden in cohorts with the esteemed producers Pelle Gunnerfeldt and Mike D of Beastie Boys.”
The group have also unveiled “Enough Is Enough” as the album’s lead single, with a video directed by filmmaker Eik Kockum capturing the group in Bucharest, Romania.
“Who in their right mind would start a song like this? No one but The Hives,” the group explained. “They are here again sooner than you expected and they have had enough of everyone at this point. Hence the title. Dig? Dig.”
The Hives will celebrate the release of their forthcoming album with a world tour which launches in Australia in July, before visiting North America, Europe, and the U.K. throughout the rest of the year.
The Hives Forever Forever The Hives arrives as the band’s seventh album, and follows on from the release of 2023’s The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons – ending an eleven-year gap between releases for the band.
The group initially formed in 1993, though largely avoided widespread recognition until the release of the 2001 compilation Your New Favourite Band. The compilation resulted in the re-release of their single “Hate to Say I Told You So,” which peaked at No. 86 on the Hot 100, and saw their following album – 2004’s Tyrannosaurus Hives – reach a career high of No. 33 on the Billboard 200.
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July 17 – Metropolis Freo, Perth, AUJuly 19 – Forum, Melbourne, AUJuly 23 – Enmore Theatre, Sydney, AUJuly 24 – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane, AUSept. 8 – Stubb’s Waller Creek Ampitheater, Austin, TXSept. 9 – House of Blues, Houston, TXSept. 10 – House of Blues, Dallas, TXSept. 12 – Ogden Theatre, Denver, COSept. 13 – The Union Event Center, Salt Lake City, UTSept. 15 – Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WASept. 16 – The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BCSept. 17 – Revolution Hall, Portland, ORSept. 19 – Ace of Spades, Sacramento, CASept. 20 – The Warfield, San Francisco, CASept. 22 – The Sound, Del Mar, CASept. 25 – Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CAOct. 17 – Sentrume Scene, Oslo, NOOct. 18 – KB Hall, Copenhagen, DKOct. 21 – Colombia Halle, Berlin, DEOct. 24 – Zenith, Munich, DEOct. 25 – Haus Auensee, Leipzig, DEOct. 26 – Gasometer, Wien, ATOct. 28 – Xtra, Zurich, CHOct. 29 – Alcatraz, Milan, ITNov. 1 – Sant Jordi Club, Barcelona, ESNov. 2 – Wizink, Madrid, ESNov. 4 – Sagres Campo Pequeno, Lisbon, PTNov. 19 – Forest National, Brussels, BENov. 20 – Le Zenith, Paris, FRNov. 22 – AFAS, Amsterdam, NLNov. 24 – Utilitia Arena, Cardiff, UKNov. 26 – Ovo Hydro, Glasgow, UKNov. 28 – Aviva Studios, Manchester, UKNov. 29 – Alexandra Palace, London, UKDec. 1 – Palladium, Cologne, DEDec. 2 – Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, DEDec. 3 – Sporthalle, Hamburg, DEDec. 6 – Avicii Arena, Stockholm, SE
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Veteran Canadian rocker Neil Young has shared his fears over a potential ban from the U.S. that may await him upon his return from Europe.
The musician – who is a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S. – has not been shy in regard to his criticism of President Donald Trump in the past. Previously, Young has gone so far as to call Trump “a disgrace to my country,” and most recently, claim that “the US has lost its standing” on the world stage under the President’s leadership.
However, with an upcoming European tour set to be followed by a run of dates in the U.S., Young has taken to his Archives website to ruminate on the notion that he too may be barred from entering the country for sharing his critical thoughts on Trump.
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“When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket,” Young wrote on Tuesday (April 1). “If I come back from Europe and am barred, can’t play my USA tour, all of the folks who bought tickets will not be able to come to a concert by me.
“If the fact that I think Donald Trump is the worst president in the history of our great country could stop me from coming back, what does that say for Freedom? I love America and its people and its music and its culture.”
As Young continued, he reflected on the constitutional right to freedom of speech within the country, likely referring to recent news stories such as the arrest and orders to deport Syrian-born permanent resident and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
“By these latest actions of our US government, it seems that those who speak out freely with their own opinions are now vulnerable to a non-existent Trump law,” Young wrote. “Then it seems to me that if you voted for Kamala Harris over Trump, that makes it possible for you to go to jail or be detained, punished in some way for not showing allegiance to what? How spineless is that? Trump is not be able to stand up to anyone who does not agree with his ideas?
“Remember, all months have 30 days,” he concluded. “One country, indivisible, with Liberty and Freedom for all. Remember that? I do.”
Young is currently scheduled to launch his forthcoming tour with the Chrome Hearts in Rättvik, Sweden on June 18, with North American dates set to begin in Charlotte, NC on Aug. 8. The rocker’s previously-announced plans for a free concert in Ukraine to launch the tour were recently cancelled, with Young citing safety concerns as the reason for the decision.
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In the words of an iconic 2010 Skrillex track, yes, on my god.
On Tuesday (April 1), the producer released his fourth studio album, the astoundingly titled F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!!
Billboard Women in Music 2025 Young Scooter’s cause of death has been revealed by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office. The Atlanta rapper, real name Kenneth Bailey, died after puncturing his thigh and losing too much blood as a result of climbing a wooden fence. “Mr. Bailey sustained a penetrating injury of his right thigh […]
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Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera achieve their second collaborative No. 1 as “Me Jalo” tops both Billboard’s Latin Airplay and Regional Mexican Airplay charts (dated April 5). The groups previously scored a No. 1 together when they teamed-up with “Bebe Dame” (one week on top of both lists in March 2023).
“Me Jalo” flies 9-1 on the overall Latin Airplay chart after a 62% improvement in audience impressions, to 10 million, earned in the U.S. during the 21-27 tracking week, according to Luminate. Thanks to the swell, the song leads with the Greatest Gainer honors, awarded weekly to the track with the biggest airplay gain.
“Creating this song was an incredible experience,” Alberto ‘Beto,’ Frontera’s guitarist tells Billboard. “Being in the studio with our friends from Fuerza Regida is the best—they’re part of our family! Now, to see us at No. 1 on the charts with them is such an honor. We keep hitting milestones and raising the flag of Mexico high.”
“Me Jalo” is one of five songs from Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera’s collaborative EP, Mala Mía, which added to the acts’ career top 10s on Top Latin Albums and Regional Mexican Albums charts, where it debuted and peaked at Nos. 10 and No. 6, respectively.
“Me Jalo” marks the fourth time both Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera have claimed the top spot on the overall Latin Airplay chart. Remarkably, the two groups have achieved an identical number of chart-topping hits since their debut in 2023: two No. 1 singles in 2023, one in 2024, and now their first in 2025. While Fuerza Regida’s No. 1 hits each held the top spot for a single week, Grupo Frontera enjoyed a longer reign with “Un X100to,” with Bad Bunny, which commanded the chart for six weeks in 2023.
“When we make music, we always aim to spread joy and fun,” Payo, vocalist of Grupo Frontera, adds. “Our mission is to create pure vibes, and for those who listen to find something positive that helps brighten their day. Seeing people enjoy and make videos is our biggest achievement. Every time that happens, good news rolls in, and we feel even happier…”
In addition to its strong performance on radio, “Me Jalo” has seen significant traction on TikTok. The song has inspired over 756,000 user-generated videos, with fans dancing as if being pulled by an invisible rope—a playful nod to the word “jalo,” derived from the verb “jalar,” which means “to pull” in Spanish.
The song holds at its No. 3 high on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart for a third week, after generating 8.5 million official U.S. streams, up 3%, in the tracking week.
“We want everyone to have as much fun with our music as we do creating it,” Juan Cantú, accordionist of Grupo Frontera, adds. “When the trend started going viral on TikTok and celebrities joined in, we got super excited! That’s why we make music.”
Elsewhere, both Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera each add a new No. 1 on Regional Mexican Airplay where “Me Jalo” jumps 5-1 with 48% gain audience impressions, to 8 million.
Billboard Women in Music 2025 Lucy Dacus performed her own magic trick on Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra.” The Boygenius star joined BBC Radio 1 this week, where she covered Gaga’s Mayhem hit. While Gaga’s version is punchy and anthemic, Dacus strips it back for hers, singing alongside a pianist and acoustic guitarist, opting for a more […]