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Lorde attended her first Met Gala in four years Monday (May 5), but she wasn’t just there for fun. According to the pop star, she also used the event to tease something coming in the future, revealing that the look she wore on the red carpet is an “Easter egg” that also happens to express […]
The Blue Note Jazz Festival’s Black Radio Experience will be returning to California this summer, and the lineup is stacked. On Tuesday (May 6), The festival unveiled its 2025 lineup, which includes headlining performances from Jazmine Sullivan, The Roots and a third mystery headliner that has yet to be announced. Additionally, the fest will of […]
What will Doja Cat‘s fifth album, Vie, sound like? The more apt question after Monday night’s (May 5) 2025 Met Gala might be: what will Vie look like? Doja hit the blue carpet at the high fashion superbowl in a Marc Jacobs pinstripe bodysuit with a velvet ocelot-print bustier design and dramatic shoulder pads on […]
Please recognize she’s trying! Shortly before arriving at the Met Gala in New York City on Monday (May 5), Rihanna revealed that she’s pregnant with her third child with partner A$AP Rocky. So not surprisingly, in addition to discussing what she was wearing for fashion’s biggest night, there were questions about whether growing her family would mean delaying her already long-awaited ninth studio album.
When asked about that on the blue carpet, Ri — who was in a custom Marc Jacobs — had a very confident answer. “Noooooo!” she insisted about the upcoming album’s arrival to Entertainment Tonight before admitting some things might come a little later. “Maybe a couple videos! I can still sing!”
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The “Umbrella” singer — who shares sons RZA, nearly 3, and Riot Rose, 1, with Rocky — also joked earlier on to reporters as she was walking the carpet at the star-studded event that she “brought the kid!” Though she was dressed to the nines and in high heels, she told ET that she was feeling good that night. “‘m shockingly feeling OK and not too overwhelmed at the moment,” she shared before admitting that perhaps her third pregnancy did have her feeling a little bit overwhelmed in the beginning. “At first, it was kinda like, ‘Ahhhhhhhh,’ and ‘I’m tired,’” the nine-time Grammy winner said. “But then I’m excited.”
As for the “Tailor Swif” rapper, he was excited to let the world in on the couple’s happy news. “We were tired of holding that, and it was time to show the people what we was cooking up,” he told the Associated Press. “I’m glad everybody’s happy for us, because we’re definitely happy.”
And hopefully soon, Ri’s Navy will also be happy with the eventual arrival of R9. The “Disturbia” singer last released an album nearly a decade ago when she dropped Anti in February 2016. As for the delayed set? Ri shared in her March Harper’s Bazaar cover story that contrary to what she called “way off” rumors, the album would not be reggae.
“There’s no genre now. That’s why I waited,” the star explained. “After a while, I looked at it, and I was like, this much time away from music needs to count for the next thing everyone hears. It has to count. It has to matter. I have to show them the worth in the wait. I cannot put up anything mediocre. After waiting eight years, you might as well just wait some more.”
Watch Ri talk about R9 and her pregnancy with ET above.
Sabrina Carpenter, Hozier, Doja Cat, Luke Combs, The Strokes, John Summit and Doechii are among the headliners of the 2025 Austin City Limits Festival. The fest that takes place in Zilker Park over two weekends — Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-12 — will also feature sets from Feid, Cage the Elephant, T-Pain, Empire of the Sun, DJO, Pierce the Veil, Rilo Kiley, Maren Morris, Mk.gee, Zeds Dead, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Modest Mouse, Wet Leg, King Princess and many more.
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The artists will spread out on nine stages, with this year’s event again slated to stream on Hulu, which will air select live performances, interviews and more during the first weekend, with a full broadcast lineup and schedule to be announced later this summer.
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Other acts on this year’s roster include: Role Model, Japanese Breakfast, Car Seat Headrest, Magdalena Bay, Olivia Dean, Marina, Gigi Perez, MJ Lenderman, Phantogram, Passion Pit, The Dare, Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso, Panda Bear, Anderson East, Lucius and many more.
Three-day general admission, GA+, VIP and platinum tickets will go on sale today at 1 p.m. ET here, with plans available starting at only $25 down; one-day tickets will be available at a later date.
Fans can also catch some shade at the Bonus Tracks stage, which organizers call a hub of “culture, connection, and good vibes [that] comes alive between music sets with a diverse lineup of programming. Expect artist and thought leader interviews, podcast recordings, cooking demos, drag performances, and creative ways to move your body and recharge your mind.”
Among the past highlights on that stage are author and podcaster Brené Brown in conversation with Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl and Ted Lasso‘s Brett Goldstein, as well as intimate chats with Billie Eilish and Noah Cyrus and dance parties with Bob’s Dance Shop, and the best of Austin Drag hosting bingo and live shows.
Check out the full lineup and 2025 ACL poster below.
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Cazzu has a lot to celebrate this week with the arrival of her debut studio album, Latinaje, on the Billboard charts. The album comes in at Nos. 4 and 48 on the Top Latin Pop Albums and Top Latin Albums rankings, respectively (charts dated May 10).
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“I’m a bit ignorant about managing badges or when one earns medals, it’s a strange feeling,” Cazzu tells Billboard. “But being on the charts makes me very happy because I think that basically determines that people are liking the album, so it fills me with great satisfaction.”
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Latinaje was released April 24 on Dale Play/Rimas and marks her first entry on any album chart after multiple visits across other songs charts. The 14-track set launches with 3,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 1, according to Luminate. Most of the LPs opening sum stems from streaming activity, which translates to 4.5 million official on-demand streams of the set’s songs.
“The album is full of moments like with [the album’s first single] ‘La Cueva’ which I didn’t want to release,” says Cazzu. “It took a lot of work from my friends and my team to convince me it was a beautiful song. It was decided at the last minute. We shot a video, I didn’t like it, we shot another one in three days, we made a super-quick announcement, and the next day it came out. And well, I was amazed at how well the song did.”
In addition to giving her a No. 27 high on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart, which blends streams, radio airplay and digital sales into its formula, “La Cueva” debuted and peaked at No. 2 on Latin Digital Song Sales in January.
“The recording process was so long,” Cazzu remembers. “It was supposed to be an album of collabs, but we changed our minds. It told one story, but it ended up telling another. ‘Con Otra,’ for example, was supposed to be a merengue, and we ended up making a cumbia.”
“Con Otra” is the latest hit on the songs charts for Cazzu, as the tune rallies 45-29 on the overall Latin Airplay chart, after launching at No. 36 on the April 6-dated ranking. The song marks Cazzu’s second visit there, following “Tú y Tú,” with Los Ángeles Azules and Santa Fe Klan, which landed at No. 5, her first top 10. That collaboration was a major achievement for Cazzu, earnin a No. 1 hit on the Regional Mexican Airplay chart, where it ruled for one week in 2023.
Elsewhere, Latinaje opens at No. 48 on the all-genre Top Latin Abums, for the Argentinian’s first appearance there.
About the song she relates with the most: “I love ‘Odiarme,’ it has a lot of Cazzu, of that romantic darkness that I love, but ‘Engreído’ has strong trap lyrics, and the music is a bolero, it is a very beautiful collaboration.” The song is her first pair-up with Venezuelan Elena Rose.
Rosalía knows she’s good at music, but acting? She’s working on it. During a red carpet interview at Monday night’s 2025 Met Gala, the “Bizcochito” singer said she’s doing her best on the set of Euphoria. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rosalía said she’s excited about her upcoming acting debut in the HBO series about teen […]
The voice cast for the upcoming 3D animated film based on Sir Paul McCartney‘s 2005 children’s book High in the Clouds will be lead by Celine Dion, Himesh Patel (Yesterday) and Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso). According to Variety, the film adaptation will also feature the voices of Idris Elba, Lionel Richie, McCartney’s former Beatles bandmate […]
Chappell Roan is no piker when it comes to belting out a tune. But on the latest episode of Heart singer Ann Wilson‘s After Dinner Thinks podcast, the “Pink Pony Club” singer made a bold statement about the number one voice in rock. “You’re rockin’ mama! I’m rockin’ because you rockin’, really, truly,” Roan told the singer of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band.
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“I think you have the best voice in rock,” Roan said to Wilson, noting that “nothing” has ever made her feel as powerful as when she sang Heart’s iconic hit “Barracuda” onstage at the Austin City Limits festival in 2024, introducing it as her “favorite song.”
“I was like, ‘actually, this is the coolest song ever. And I feel like a rock star!,” Roan said. Fellow guest Lucy Dacus recalled the pair talking about the cover, with Roan telling her at the time, “I remember when you were like, ‘I’m gonna cover this because I want to feel what it feels like in my body to be a rocker like that.’”
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Wilson agreed that it’s a whole different thing to rock out on stage, with Roan saying that pop is fine, but rock, well, it’s a different beast. “A song like that… you can’t hold it in like that. It has to be an independence of the soul where you just let it go and you go, ‘what the f–k? This is a physical event,” Wilson said.
After watching a Heart show before the pod recording, Dacus opined on how most self-described rockers are wannabes who are just pretending, or trying to be a “rock character or avatar. Y’all are just ‘bees,’ you’re not wannabes… they’re trying to be you.”
That comment got Roan going, with the “Hot To Go” singer slamming “b–ches who will never come out on stage. They’re just like, ‘oh! I can’t. My arm hurts!’ Like you are… that is punk!”
Elsewhere in the chat, the three women talked about how style plays into their identity, Dacus asked Wilson is she’d ever considered retiring from music and Roan wondered how the singer handled the huge success and pressure to follow-up Heart’s smash 1975 debut album, Dreamboat Annie, when the group went in to record the follow-up. Dacus also talked about attending a Heart show with her birth mother, with Wilson sharing her moving journey adopting two children.
Definitely stick around until the end, because Wilson opened up about her record label once sending Paula Abdul to teach Heart some choreography, a move that did not go well.
Chappell Roan, Lucy Dacus and Ann Wilson
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