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Back Again The record follows up their internet-melting single "WAP" Resident work wives Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B are turning up the heat once again. More than three years after they melted the internet with “WAP,” the rappers are back for a second round with “Bongos.” Cardi B dropped the title and single artwork for “Bongos” across her social media accounts earlier this week along with its release date, not wasting any time on snippets or teasers to ramp up anticipation. In a recent interview with Hot 97, the...

Eric Church, Miranda Lambert and Morgan Wallen will each be headlining one night of the 2024 Stagecoach Festival. The California-based country festival dropped its full lineup of Thursday (Sept. 7)."There is something so special about playing music when the sun goes down in the middle of the desert," Lambert says in a statement. "The fans, the setup, the location — there really is no other festival like it. My band and I have had the chance to experience the magic that is Stagecoach a few times now, and we can't...

Joan Baez reflects on her 60-year career in the trailer for the new documentary Joan Baez I Am a Noise. “I don’t think anybody at a young age who gets famous has the slightest idea that it’ll ever end,” she says as footage of her walking through a field now contrasts black-and-white pics from her early folk days. In another introspective moment, she says, “I was the right voice at the right time; it just shot me in another whole stratosphere.” The film, which features Baez’s previously unseen home movies,...

Jimmy Buffett's last words to family summed up a message he'd been singing for decades. His sister says that the legend had no intention of resting in peace.Lucy "LuLu" Buffett wrote a reflection for the Keys Citizen, a daily newspaper for the Florida Keys. At the end, she reveals the last words "Bubba" — her nickname for Buffett — said to her. The family hasn't shared if he said more to others after, but it's clear he got his chance to say goodbye to just about everyone."We had a beautiful goodbye visit earlier in the week,"...

Fans have been waiting for Drake’s new album, For All the Dogs, since he announced the news earlier this summer. Finally, after teasing the record for months, the rapper revealed that the upcoming album will drop on Sept. 22. Drake made the announcement via a video posted on Wednesday evening, featuring his father Dennis Graham singing back in the day. In the throwback clip, Graham is introduced as “Cousin Dennis” from Memphis, Tenn. and performs on Stormy Monday With Danny Marks, a local television series in Toronto that aired during the...

Darius Rucker toes the line between serious and silly in his high-concept new music video for "Fires Don't Start Themselves," a single he put out back in April.The clip stars Rucker as a police detective who must solve the mystery behind a series of inexplicable fires that keep popping up — without any apparent cause — all over town. With his incompetent, donut-obsessed partner by his side, Rucker follows the trail from a home to a car to a bar to a hotel room, all of which have been damaged...

Tyler Childers and his band the Food Stamps will hit the road next spring on the “Mule Pull ’24 Tour.” The North American leg of the trek launches April 5 at the Viejas Arena in San Diego and wraps with a big gig May 29 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Childers will receive support from a variety of artists on select dates throughout the tour, including Medium Build, Hayes Carll, 49 Winchester, Allison Russell, and Sylvan Esso.  The tour announcement comes a few days before Childers releases...

Zach Bryan becomes the latest country star to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as his duet with Kacey Musgraves debuted at No. 1 this week."I Remember Everything" is on Bryan's self-titled album, which debuted atop of the all-genre Billboard 200 chart last week. The song is the fourth straight country song to hold the top position on the all-genre song chart — a feat never before accomplished.It also becomes the 24th song ever to top both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs chart (full list below).Related: Here Are the...

B.G. is a free man. The Hot Boys member was released from prison this week after serving 12 years of a 14-year sentence. An Instagram Live from Cash Money Records founder Bryan “Birdman” Williams shared on Tuesday showed the musician after leaving prison. “After 12 winters and 13 summers, I see the end zone. It’s my last #Birthday being buried alive. This year I’m celebrating the whole Virgo cycle, matter of fact, from this year forward I’m living and celebrating like everyday is #MyBIRTHDAY,” B.G. wrote on Instagram Monday. “After...

Members of the Beatles are still accomplishing firsts in their career after all these years, thanks to a little help from a friend.How Dolly Parton Helped the Beatles MembersDolly Parton has released a cover of the Beatles' classic "Let It Be" that will be part of her Rockstar album, set for release Nov. 17.Rockstar, Parton's 49th studio album, is a collection of 30 songs that are mostly covers, including Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird," Prince's "Purple Rain" and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."According to Billboard, the remake of "Let It Be" is "the first song on which...

Rising reggaetón star RMAND is used to doing everything on his own. Back in the Dominican Republic, he’d write his songs alone, record by himself, and book shows independently. But now, RMAND (pronounced awr-mand) has an army, led by Tainy and Lex Borrero’s NEON16 label, “looking to elevate” everything he does.  In 2021, he released the track “Diskreto,” which went viral on TikTok. RMAND’s career quickly launched to high gear after he competed on Netflix’s La Firma earlier this year. The show, judged by Nicki Nicole and Rauw Alejandro, sought...

Kenny Chesney is paying tribute to his longtime friend Jimmy Buffett, who died on Friday (Sept. 1). The country singer found a fitting spot on the beach in Key West, Fla., to sing one of Buffett's songs, "A Pirate Looks at Forty.""Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call / Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall / You've seen it all, you've seen it all / Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam / And in your belly, you hold...

Singer-songwriter and synth pioneer Gary Wright, who penned the massive hits “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive” and became George Harrison’s longtime friend and collaborator, died Monday morning. He was 80. Wright’s son, Justin, confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause was Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. According to Justin, Wright was diagnosed with Parkinson’s “around six or seven years ago” before a subsequent dementia diagnosis. “He managed it fairly well for a while,” Justin tells Rolling Stone. “But a few years ago, he needed...

Blake Shelton is grieving the loss of Jimmy Buffett after the legendary singer-songwriter's death on Friday (Sept. 1.)In a social media post, Shelton paid tribute to Buffett's massive impact, saying that he was "heartbroken" to hear that he had died. "What an incredible talent and man. His songs will live on forever," the country star continued.Not only was Shelton a massive fan of Buffett, the multi-genre artist who cultivated his beach bum lifestyle into a musical escape for his fans and expanded that aesthetic into a brand that included hotels,...