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This week in offbeat news: Lenny Kravitz wore a giant scarf again, Antony Blinken sang the blues for democracy, Pink kicked out a concertgoer for yelling about circumcision, Cardi B got emotional over FDR, and Taylor Swift went to a football game.  » Read More

Rick Ross and Meek Mill, together again! It’s enough to make a millennial rap fan’s heart sing. The MMG associates have joined forces for the new single “Shaq & Kobe,” a song released to promote Rozay’s new affiliation with gamma., “the artist-first multimedia platform providing creative and business services across all artistic and commercial formats.”  » Read More

Maxo Kream is one of the smartest, funniest, rawest rappers out of Houston (or anywhere), a gifted storyteller with a drawl that draws you in and an eye for detail that holds your attention. Luh Tyler is the coolest teenager in rap, ascending out of Florida with high-pitched vocals that make me believe he’ll sound like a human cartoon even when he’s full grown.  » Read More

GloRilla hails from Memphis, but on new single “Cha Cha Cha” — from her label CMG’s new compilation Gangsta Art 2 — she steps into collaborator Fivio Foreign’s sonic territory. It’s a New York drill track that feels like it could become a pop hit without catering to pop market at all — unless you count a lyrical quotation of the “Cha Cha Slide”  » Read More

The Chicago rap eccentric Valee had a lot of hype behind him a few years ago, but he largely disappeared, and that hype dissipated. This year, though, Valee has made up for lost time, releasing two full-lengths, Vacabularee and the Harry Fraud collab Virtuoso.  » Read More

Duster, the San Jose slowcore band, were pretty obscure in their day. In recent years, though, younger fans have discovered Duster’s old records, and the band has gotten back together to release a couple of new ones. The band’s debut album Stratosphere came out back in 1998,  » Read More

The Nashville singer-songwriter Liza Anne has been dropping one-off singles all year, and they released one called “Shania Twain Is Making Me Cry” earlier this month. A bunch of those tracks will appear on the forthcoming LP Utopan. Today, Liza Anne follows that track with “Internet Depression,”  » Read More

For the first time since Tupac Shakur was murdered in 1996, someone has been arrested in relation to the case. As the Associated Press reports, Duane “Keffe D” Davis — one of the last living witnesses to 2Pac’s murder on the Las Vegas strip, whose wife’s home was raided in July as part of Las Vegas police’s investigation into the killing — was arrested this morning and charged with murder […]

Ever since 2002, Pop Montréal has taken over venues across town one week a year for a far-ranging festival that balances established names and emerging acts. With some of the locals describing this year as feeling like the first “true” iteration of the festival since COVID, the excitement feels particularly palpable; there’s an electricity in the air while you drop in on wildly different artists just a few blocks away […]