Kodak Black, who was in court Wednesday on a sexual misconduct charge stemming from accusations he assaulted a high school student in 2016, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of first-degree assault and battery in a plea deal, as CBS affiliate WBTW reports. The victim agreed to all of …
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Britney Spears will speak in court regarding her conservatorship in June, as Variety reports. At a hearing on Tuesday, Spears requested via her attorney Samuel Ingham to address the court personally at a future hearing. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny granted the singer’s request and scheduled the hearing …
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Billie Eilish has announced that her new album, Happier Than Ever, will arrive July 30th via Darkroom/Interscope Records. The superstar announced the follow-up to When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?adding that a new single will be released on Thursday, April 29th. “This is my favorite thing I’ve …
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Logic and Madlib have revealed their new collaboration dubbed MadGic, with the “retired” rapper and the acclaimed producer dropping the duo’s first track “Mars Only Pt. 3” Friday night. As hinted on the introductory track, the pair worked on entire album together during the Covid-19 lockdown, although details of the …
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Bebe Rexha appeared on The Late Show to showcase her recent single “Sacrifice,” performing virtually in a stylized black and white clip. The singer, clad in a black latex suit and gloves, performed alongside her band and two dancers. The sleek look of the video evoked vintage Madonna. Rexha dropped …
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The prog rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer will get their first official book, titled Emerson, Lake & Palmer, out later this year. The book was created by Carl Palmer and the families of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake — who both died in 2016. It contains unpublished interviews, rare …
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For the second time in just seven months, the Academy of Country Music handed out its annual awards. After the 2020 ACM Awards were delayed from April to September because of the pandemic, the organization moved the show from Las Vegas to Nashville for the first time in its history. …
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Secretly Canadian will celebrate its 25th anniversary this summer with a series of reissues, singles, and more — raising money to fight homelessness in Bloomington, Indiana. The label kicked off their year-long SC25 project with reissues of the War on Drugs’ Wagonwheel Blues, Jens Lekman’s When I Said I Wanted …
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Ben Folds has launched a new podcast, Lightning Bugs, in which he discusses creativity with guests from the worlds of art, science, public policy, and music — and writes a song with each guest at the end of every episode. Lightning Bugs premieres Thursday, April 8th, and the first episode …
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Questlove’s documentary, Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), will arrive in theaters and on Hulu on July 2nd. The Roots drummer’s directorial debut delves into the little-known history of the Harlem Cultural Festival, dubbed “the Black Woodstock,” which took place the same summer as Woodstock …
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