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Billboard Women in Music 2025
Zenyara Desert Nights is back and bigger than ever for 2025.
Global experiential agency Corso Marketing Group (CMG) and underground nightlife tastemakers Framework have revealed the lineup for their invite-only late-night festival series, returning April 11–13 and April 18–20, with exclusive access driven by Dorsia and in collaboration with Tao Group Hospitality.
Held at the sprawling, 70-acre Zenyara estate in the Coachella Valley, the two-weekend affair promises deep grooves, underground legends and the kind of high-touch hospitality money can’t buy — unless you’re on the list.
The 2025 lineup features a stacked roster of talent, including Bob Moses (Club Set), Vintage Culture, Mau P, WHOMADEWHO (Hybrid Set), Dixon b2b Jimi Jules, Mahmut Orhan, Damian Lazarus b2b Dennis Cruz and more. A special guest is also confirmed for Saturday, April 12 — because Zenyara never misses a surprise moment.
2025 lineups
Weekend One
Friday, April 11: Ahmed Spins, Bob Moses (Club Set), Damian Lazarus b2b Dennis Cruz, KILIMANJARO
Saturday, April 12: Special Guest
Sunday, April 13: Dixon b2b Jimi Jules, WHOMADEWHO, Yulia Niko, DESIREE, Sparrow & Barbossa
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Weekend Two
Friday, April 18: Mahmut Orhan, Vintage Culture, Ahmed Spins, Beltran
Saturday, April 19: ChaseWest, Mau P, Autograf, Miramar
Sunday, April 20: Francis Mercier, Mind Against, Tripolism + more TBA
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Since launching in 2018, Zenyara Desert Nights has earned a reputation as one of the most exclusive, off-site experiences of Coachella season — where the energy of a club night meets the polish of a luxury brand retreat. Past editions have featured performances from artists like RÜFÜS DU SOL, Kaytranada, Skrillex and Solomun, while attracting an elite mix of artists, designers, athletes and industry leaders from around the globe.
And just when you think they’ve peaked, enter Rodeo Nights, Zenyara’s first-ever country-inspired weekend, set for April 25–27 during Stagecoach. Full lineup details are still under wraps, but expect luxury with a side of cowboy boots.
With premium brand partners including Patrón El Alto, Red Bull, Heineken, Rivian, and Outcast, immersive activations will be spread across Zenyara’s aquatic playground, complete with a private beach, a full spa, golf and tennis courts, and a rooftop-ready infinity pool. Co-produced by CMG and Framework, in association with Dorsia and Tao Group Hospitality, Zenyara 2025 is once again shaping up to be the desert’s most coveted invite—and the late-night party everyone will wish they got into.
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Ye — formerly Kanye West — blasted J. Cole and his music during another X rant on Tuesday night (April 1), but it didn’t seem to be any sort of April Fools’ Day joke.
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“I hate J Cole music so much,” West said matter-of-factly. “It’s like between Kendrick and J Cole I bet you industry plants asked J Cole to diss Drake then we would have been accosted with a J Cole Super Bowl commercial with no SZA song to save it.”
The embattled Chicago native went on to diss Cole’s artistry by claiming that the Dreamville leader’s music was strictly for virgins. “No one listens to J Cole after loosing [sic] their virginity,” he wrote.
Ye also brought up purported conversations around 2021’s Donda era when he pleaded with Drake that he was “hurting hip-hop” by giving J. Cole a bigger platform.
“When I met up with Drake during Donda most of the convo was me telling him he was hurting hip hop by giving J Cole a platform and I was saying how much I loved Future,” he added.
Kanye previously dissed J. Cole last year when adding a verse to the “Like That” remix. “Play J.Cole get the p—y dry,” he raps.
The relationship between Ye and Cole has been icy for some time. The North Carolina rhymer jabbed at West on multiple occasions in the past. While he respects Ye’s artistry, Cole hasn’t had any issue checking him on tracks like 2016’s “False Prophets” and 2019’s “Middle Child,” saying he feels West hasn’t lived up to the billing.
The 48-year-old has been draped in controversy in recent months while his unhinged X rants have found him doubling down on his antisemitic remarks and appreciation for Hitler while wearing a Swastika shirt and chain.
West provided context about some of his recent rants when he spoke with DJ Akademiks last week for an hour-plus-long interview, which saw him wearing a black KKK-inspired hood and touching on Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Kim Kardashian, Diddy, Virgil Abloh, Jay-Z, Playboi Carti and more.
Find Ye’s rant sniping at J. Cole below.
I hate J Cole music so much It’s like between Kendrick and J Cole I bet you industry plants asked J Cole to diss Drake then we would have been accosted with a J Cole Super Bowl commercial with no SZA song to save it https://t.co/djbn491rpv— ye (@kanyewest) April 2, 2025
When I met up with Drake during Donda most of the convo was me telling him he was hurting hip hop by giving J Cole a platform and I was saying how much I loved Future— ye (@kanyewest) April 2, 2025
No one listens to J Cole after loosing their virginity— ye (@kanyewest) April 2, 2025

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Ten years after making a cameo in Taylor Swift‘s “Bad Blood” music video, Olivia Pompeo has nothing but love for the pop star — especially after the generous gift she gave the Grey’s Anatomy actress for a children’s charity on set.
While on The Jennifer Hudson Show Wednesday (April 2), Pompeo reflected on Swift tapping her to star in the Billboard Hot 100-topping 1989 single’s all-star visual, which premiered at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards. “Taylor is such a good girl,” the Golden Globe nominee said. “I didn’t know her, and she invited me to be in the video and I thought, ‘Oh that would be fun.’ It was the easiest thing.”
Pompeo added that she still gets “a lot of points” with daughters Stella and Sienna — whom she shares with husband Chris Ivery, along with son Eli — for having starred in the VMA-winning project. “That got me so much mileage with both of the girls for a stretch.”
“At the time, Chris and I, we do a lot of volunteering for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles here,” she continued. “They have an amazing program at Children’s where they make music for the babies in the NICU and for the parents who have to go to work all day and they can’t be with the kids, they record their voices singing nursery rhymes or telling them stories, and they play it for the babies in the day when the parents can’t be there.”
“It’s a really nice program, but they need money to run it,” Pompeo said before revealing that Swift chipped in big at the drop of a hat. “So I just got up the hutzpah and asked Taylor, ‘Could you write me a big old check for Children’s?’ And she knew me all of 20 minutes, and that girl wrote me the biggest check without blinking an eye.”
It may have been Swift’s first 20 minutes of knowing Pompeo, but the Grammy winner had been a fan of hers for years. She’s long been vocal about her fandom for Grey’s and named one of her cats Meredith Grey after Pompeo’s character on the show.
A couple years ago, fans even thought that Swift might make a cameo on the medical drama, which is still on the air after 20 years. The rumors turned out to be false, but Pompeo told Extra of a future Swift appearance, “I think she’s pretty busy, but that would be fun … I would love it.”
Watch Pompeo talk about Swift’s generosity on The Jennifer Hudson Show above.
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Bruce Springsteen is seemingly gearing up to release another massive collection from his vaults. After teasing on Instagram on Tuesday (April 1) that “what was lost has now been found,” The Boss posted the official teaser for what appears to be another career-spanning project on Wednesday (April 2) via another Insta post with the caption #TheLostAlbums.
The accompanying video featuring black and white footage of Springsteen, 75, playing an acoustic guitar was accompanied by an untitled instrumental track and the words Tracks II, leading to a website (lostalbums.net) with a studio card from the singer’s L.A. (and Colts Neck, N.J.-based) Thrill Hill Recording studio featuring the dates 1983-2018.
While no additional information was available on the project at press time — including a release date or track listing — the project appears to be a sequel to Springsteen’s 1998 four-disc, 66-song box set Tracks, which covered the years 1972-1995. That sprawling collection featured never-before-released songs, b-sides, demos and alternate versions of released tracks from throughout his career, including an acoustic version of “Born in the U.S.A.”
The original Tracks spanned from early demos recorded in 1972, before the release of his 1973 debut, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. through such landmark releases as Born to Run, The River, Born in the U.S.A., Tunnel of Love and 1992’s Human Touch.
Based on the dates from the Lost Albums site, the new set seemingly picks up right before the 1984 release of Born in the U.S.A. and runs all the way until just before 2019’s Southern California pop LP Western Stars. That period covers a dozen releases, including 1992’s Lucky Town, 1995’s The Ghost of Tom Joad, 2002’s The Rising, 2009’s Working on a Dream and 2012’s Wrecking Ball, among others.
It was unclear at press time when the set will drop, though the promo video features Thursday’s (April 3) date at the top. Back in December, Springsteen’s team teased that, “upcoming releases in 2025 include a look back at Springsteen’s storied recording career, featuring never-before-heard material.”
Springsteen has talked about recording much more material than fans have heard, telling Variety in 2017 that he and the E Street Band have “made many more records than we released. Why didn’t we release those records? I didn’t think they were essential,” he said of projects including the mythical electric version of his landmark bare-bones 1982 Nebraska album, which will be the focus of the upcoming Jeremy Allen White-starring biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere.
“I might have thought they were good, I might have had fun making them, and we’ve released plenty of that music [on archival collections over the years],” Springsteen added in the Variety interview. “But over my entire work life, I felt like I released what was essential at a certain moment, and what I got in return was a very sharp definition of who I was, what I want to do, what I was singing about. And I still basically judge what I’m doing by the same set of rules.”
Springsteen and the E Street Band will kick off their European tour on May 14 with the first of three shows at Co-Op Live in Manchester, U.K.
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Playboi Carti and Ariana Grande are battling for another week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Carti took to social media on Tuesday night (April 1) and quoted some of his Music lyrics about his plans of “goin’ three for three” atop the charts.
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“F–k it, I’m goin’ three for three,” he raps on “MOJO JOJO.” He followed up the IG Story post with a photo of Ariana Grande.
Fans were surprised to see Carti post Grande as he sent social media into a frenzy. “CARTIANA FANS STAND UP,” one fan of both artists wrote to X.
Carti has gone back-to-back weeks owning the top spot on the Billboard 200 coming off the release of Music, but Grande entered the mix with the arrival of her eternal sunshine deluxe: better days ahead on Friday (March 28).
The Atlanta rapper released his long-awaited Music album on March 14 and the set debuted at No. 1 with 298,000 album-equivalent units earned as all 30 tracks landed on the Billboard Hot 100.
He added another four previously released tracks to streaming services packaged in the form of the Music – Sorry 4 Da Wait deluxe.
Weeks later, Carti still occupies 10 slots on the Hot 100, including nine Music cuts and “Timeless” with The Weeknd. He’s also been teasing the release of Baby Boi, which appears to be his next project.
Grande released her Eternal Sunshine album in March 2024, and the LP debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 227,000 units earned. Just over a year later, the pop star returned with the six-track deluxe, which boasts fan-favorites “Twilight Zone” and the heartbreaking ballad “Hampstead.”
As for Carti, he spent his April Fool’s Day hanging with his supposed girlfriend, Giovanna Ramos, as the couple was spotted courtside at the Atlanta Hawks game.
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