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Before you head off on your three day weekend, take a moment to add some new tracks to your playlista from your favorite queer artists. Billboard Pride is proud to present the latest edition of Queer Jams of the Week, our roundup of some of the best new music releases from LGBTQ+ artists.
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From Renee Rapp’s cheeky return to St. Vincent’s Spanish-language reimagination, check out just a few of our favorite releases from this week below:
Reneé Rapp, “Leave Me Alone”
For every fan of Reneé Rapp’s that’s been asking, ad nauseum, “where’s the single,” the singer has a definitive answer — “leave me alone, b—h, I wanna have fun.” On this rollicking, tongue-in-cheek meta-commentary, Rapp gives her fans everything they could have asked for with her return. The lyrics are just as unhinged and provocative as the singer herself, the production adds some rock vibes to her established pop’n’b sound, and the vibes are simply, immaculate. We don’t predict anyone will be leaving
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St. Vincent & Mon Laferte, “Tiempos Violentos”
While St. Vincent has already shared a Spanish-language version of her standout track “Violent Times” from All Born Screaming, the singer-songwriter certainly hasn’t done so with rising singer-songwriter Mon Laferte. Now, “Tiempos Violentos” is given a new edge, as the pair trade lines in English and Spanish, while expanding the jazzy, dark track to a new, broader world of sound that fits both artists like a glove.
Cerrone & Christine and the Queens, “Catching Feelings”
It turns out when you take disco legend Cerrone and pace him with avant-pop chameleon Christine and the Queens, you get one of the most immediately enjoyable tracks of the year. On “Catching Feelings,” the pair lean into their strengths and create a guitar & drum-driven disco-pop track that will have you grooving along within moments.
Allison Goldfrapp, “Reverberotic”
Goldfrapp fans, wake up! We got a new banger from Allison herself! “Reverberotic,” the latest off the singer’s forthcoming new album Flux, sees Goldfrapp embracing synth-pop, trance and a touch of soul to make for one of her most unique-sounding tracks to date. “Reverberotic, wanna feel that again/ Vibrating light, a supernatural ascent,” she croons on the undulating chorus. “Reverberotic, all your dreams in the cloud/ Your sweet elixir is a part of me now.”
PINKNOISE, “Bittersweet”
It’s been a good week for rising heavy metal rocker PINKNOISE. Not only did the fast-rising artist (known off-stage as Kacey Foxx) sign with Nettwerk Music Group, but they decided to celebrate that fact with a new track. On “Bittersweet,” Foxx delivers the full range of their artistry, starting the song from a cool, quiet space before blowing up the premise and delivering a hard rock ballad that feels like it’s being powered by jet fuel. If you haven’t listened to PINKNOISE before today, let this be your official notice to go press play now.
Check out all of our picks below on Billboard’s Queer Jams of the Week playlist:
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Get excited. Joe Jonas is back with his latest album Music for People Who Believe in Love.
The “Sucker” singer dropped his new album today and fans are teeming with excitement. The album features 14 tracks, including previously released tracks “Work It Out,” “What This Could Be” and “Heart by Heart.” Why not celebrate this monumental occasion with new Jonas-inspired merch? From t-shirts to blankets and stickers, we’ve compiled a list of cute merch items from Amazon and Walmart that are perfect for celebrating the album release in style.
“I Love Joe” Heart T-Shirt
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A black t-shirt with white lettering and a red heart on the front.
Rep your fave Jonas Brothers member with this comfy black tee. Retailing for $16.14, this piece comes in a variety of colorways, not just black, including “Blue,” “Lemon Yellow” and “Grass Green,” among others. We like the black because it’s extremely versatile, pairing well with anything and everything you style it with.
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The shirt is made of 100% cotton for a breathable feel and features the words “I Heart Joe” in white on the front with a red heart, aptly showing off your allegiance to the singer. Styled with classic baggy jeans and white sneakers, we can envision this tee being a great addition to your next Jonas Brothers concert look.
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Joe Jonas Banana Sticker
A vinyl sticker depicting Joe Jonas in a banana costume.
Looking for something fun and silly to subtly show your love for Jonas? This Jonas Banana sticker is for you. The vinyl decal is 5 inches and depicts Jonas wearing black shades in a funky banana costume. Perfect for the Jonas Brothers fan in your life, this sticker can be slapped onto laptops, phones, car bumpers and iPads, offering your tech extra pizazz. You could also decorate your notebooks with this cute sticker. The banana sticker is also waterproof, a nice touch if you want to put this decorative piece on a water bottle. The possibilities are limitless.
Joe Jonas Journal Notebook
A Joe Jonas inspired notebook with 110 pages.
For the Jonas-obsessed person in your life, this steamy notebook is for them. Retailing for $6.99, this notebook features 110 lined pages and a photo of Jonas shirtless on the front. Perfect for journaling, creative writing or jotting down your deepest darkest secrets, this notebook makes the perfect gift no matter the occasion. Warning. Gifting this drool-worthy item will likely have the Jonas lover fangirling just a smidge.
Joe Jonas Unisex Varsity Baseball Jacket
A black baseball jacket with white trim and graphics on the back.
This baseball jacket is sporty and fun, and it’s only $23.99. This unisex piece is a subtle way to represent your love for Jonas while looking fashionable too. The outerwear piece is made of stretchy and soft 100% polyester in black accompanied by contrasting decorative white trim, white buttons and a graphic in white on the back reading, “If Lost Return To Joe.” “Joe Jonas” can be seen written on the front in white cursive.
This baseball jacket makes for a great layering option over your favorite graphic tees. We can envision this jacket paired with equally sporty items like basketball shorts and colorful sneakers or jorts and a baseball cap.
Joe Jonas (Blue Hair) Big Head
A Big Head wall sticker depicting Joe Jonas’ face.
Stickers are great and all, but what if you had one big one that you could stick onto your wall? Walmart’s Jonas Big Head will hopefully fill the void, offering a cheeky way to impress the Jonas Brothers fan in your life. This laughable decal depicts Jonas’ face with blue hair.
The stick-on item is made of sturdy cardboard and is approximately 16.9 inches. The decal can be stuck to the wall with wall-hanging attachments sold separately. This could make a great gag gift. It’s surely a gift the recipient will never forget.
Joe Jonas Throw Blanket
A Joe Jonas-themed blanket sized 80″”x60″”.
Who doesn’t want to be wrapped up in a cozy Joe Jonas-themed blanket? This plush throw blanket is Jonas mania to the max, equipped with colorful pictures of the musician in a collage fashion along with his name in bold white lettering. The blanket is made of durable microfiber flannel fabric and is sized 80″ x60″. This piece would look great as an accent on a bed or couch, worn on those comfy nights at home.
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DJ Khaled is a master marketer. He can turn just about anything into a viral clip, dating back to his thrilling Snapchat voyages that had followers on the edge of their seats nearly a decade ago.
Khaled linked up with content creator Ashton Hall, who has gone viral for his wild daily routine videos, which produced plenty of chatter on social media, whether it’s his Saratoga water ice face washes or banana-peel-spreading skin routine.
Hall, a former college football player, is quite the athlete and also gives fans a look into his rigorous workout regimen, which Khaled joined him for.
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The hilarious clip finds the We The Best mogul shirtless in an open black vest, taped-up legs and Air Jordan 3s running alongside Hall in what appears to be a parking lot. Cinematic effects make the video look like an action-packed scene straight out of a Bad Boys movie.
“ALBUM MODE ! AALAM OF GOD,” Khaled captioned the video on his Instagram ahead of his Aalam of God album arrival, which is expected later in 2025.
Fans and plenty of Khaled’s peers found the album promotion tactic to be amusing, as A$AP Rocky, Busta Rhymes, Swizz Beatz, E-40 and more chimed in on Instagram.
“Nah the cuz fake got some speed he keeping up,” Rowdy Rebel added while giving Khaled props.
Khaled hasn’t released a project since 2022’s God Did, which topped the Billboard 200, so the anticipation is there.
He appeared to kick off the Aalam of God rollout into another gear with a blockbuster movie trailer starring Mark Wahlberg and Anthony Ramos. The album teaser saw him hinting at collabs with Rihanna and Drake.
However, Drake threw cold water on the epic trailer’s momentum when he questioned whether he’d be on the project. “Must be Drake Bell,” Drizzy commented, and Khaled ended up deleting the post on IG altogether.
Steve Earle has a number of events he can point to in his life to mark 50th anniversaries, but he’s clear about what’s sending him on his Fifty Years of Songs and Stories tour that kicks off May 25 in Decatur, Ala.
“It’s the 50th anniversary of me signing my first publishing contract – me officially in the music business,” Earle tells Billboard. That was in Nashville when, after a good six years of tooling around in Texas – including playing in his songwriting hero Townes Van Zandt’s band – Earle was working by day and playing at night, including as part of Guy Clark’s group. The song publishing company Sunbury-Dunbar made him a staff writer, though Earle would subsequently head back to Texas and then return to Nashville, where he became an artist in his own right with the 1982 EP Pink & Black; his career really took off with 1986’s Guitar Town, which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.
Earle, 70, has been going ever since, with hits, misses and a brief incarceration during the mid-‘90s for cocaine and weapons possession. Others – including Joan Baez, Travis Tritt, Robert Earl Keen and Stacy Dean Campbell – have recorded his songs, but Earle has remained determinedly and defiantly his own man, winning three Grammy Awards along the way and delving into other projects such as production (for Baez and Lucinda Williams), acting (HBO’s Treme and The Wire, off-Broadway’s Samara ) and theater (the Drama Desk Award-nominated Coal Country). His social and political activism led to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s shining star of abolition award in 2010, and in 2020 he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Clearly, there will be a lot of stories to go with the songs when Earle hits the road (his shows will be mostly solo, though he’s playing a few dates with the band Reckless Kelly). “It’s not strictly chronological; that’s the backbone of it, but some songs I play are based on memories, so something I wrote a little later may pop up earlier in the show,” Earle explains. “It’s sort of built around telling stories; I try not to talk too much, but I’m good at that thing. I started in coffee houses, so that’s basically the deal.”
Earle is hoping to finish work on his next musical, a stage adaptation of the hit 1983 film Tender Mercies, while he’s out on the road. “I want to finish at least three songs so I have a draft,” he says. “These things take years to (complete). I’m just trying to live long enough to get the f–kin’ thing up.” He also appears on Willie Nile’s upcoming new album The Great Yellow Light and has recorded a “cosmic country” song, “Dead or Gone to Dallas,” for a split single he’s doing with Reckless Kelly. “It would work on Guitar Town,” Earle notes. “I was talking to Miranda Lambert; my family’s from the same part of Texas as she’s from, and she asked me if I ever went up there. I said, ‘Everyone I know is dead or gone to Dallas.’ She said, ‘Don’t write that with anybody!’” Earle has also finished “a big chunk of” a memoir as well as “a little bit of” a novel.
“I really mean to finish them before I die,” he says, noting that after turning 70 “you think about it even more. You wouldn’t think one number would make a difference more than any other number. But my father was only 74 when he died and my grandfather only lived to be 63. One uncle was 80 but the other died younger than my dad. And you get to be a certain age and your friends start dying. On my radio show [Hard Core Troubadour on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Channel] I used to do tributes occasionally; now it’s more often than I’d like.”
As he gets ready to hit the road with his Fifty Years of Songs and Stories Tour, we thought we’d get Earle to tell us the stories behind five key songs in his career. Check out Earle’s tour dates here.
“L.A. Freeway” (Guy Clark, 1970; covered by Steve Earle in 2019)
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Lord Huron hits No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart for the second time, as “Nothing I Need” jumps two spots to the top of the tally dated May 31. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The band first led with “Not Dead Yet” for five […]
Tory Lanez is still healing up from a brutal stabbing incident that left both his lungs collapsed, along with other injuries. In a new report, Tory Lanez has since been transferred to another California facility after officials remarked on being unable to keep the Canadian star safe.
TMZ reports that Tory Lanez, 32, moved earlier this week from the California Correctional Institution (CCI) to the California Men’s Colony (CMC), some three hours away from the CCI. According to Lanez’s attorney, the rapper and singer isn’t happy about moving from the supermax in Tehachapi to San Luis Obispo County. CMC is not considered a supermax facility, but does have a wing where some of its most troubled prisoners are housed.
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