Everything We Know About Rihanna’s R9 Album

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 11: Rihanna poses for a picture as she celebrates her beauty brands fenty beauty and fenty skin at Goya Studios on February 11, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Is there anything Rihanna can’t do? Since releasing her multiplatinum album “Anti” in 2016, the business mogul has upended the beauty industry with Fenty Beauty, launched a luxury fashion line, changed the lingerie game with […]

MOBO Awards to return to London for 25th anniversary celebration – Music News

MOBO Awards to return to London for 25th anniversary celebration - Music News

The MOBO Awards in association with Lucozade comes full circle with a spectacular return to London for an unmissable, triumphant 25th anniversary celebration, coming to you live from the OVO Arena Wembley on 30 November. […]

MOBO Awards to return to London for 25th anniversary celebration – Music News

MOBO Awards to return to London for 25th anniversary celebration - Music News

The MOBO Awards in association with Lucozade comes full circle with a spectacular return to London for an unmissable, triumphant 25th anniversary celebration, coming to you live from the OVO Arena Wembley on 30 November. […]

Flor de Toloache to perform at ‘Día de los Muertos’ special

The 'Alfeñique' Fair Celebrates 90 Years Of Tradition In Toluca

Día de los Muertos—Day of the Dead— is around the corner! The event has become a globally recognized Mexican tradition celebrated in Latino neighborhoods throughout the United States and by people of Mexican heritage everywhere. […]

Artist Rene Matić: ‘This story is about what, if anything, saves us’ | Photography

Rene Matić’s ‘Destination/Departure’, 2020

Two years ago, the young artist Rene Matić had the far-right slogan “Born British Die British” tattooed on their back. The words unfurl in a delicate font across their rippling shoulders in the elegiac black-and-white […]

Rihanna Performing at 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show

Rihanna getting hairspray applied in the backseat of a car

Rihanna and the NFL have announced that she’s headlining the 2023 Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show. It marks Rihanna’s first public performance since her appearance with DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller at the 2018 […]

Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin: Ali review – inspired grooves to get lost in | Music

Khruangbin and Vieux Farka Touré, Ali Album artwork cover art

Ali Farka Touré had a complex relationship with success outside Africa. It came to him relatively late in life – he was nearly 50 when the music he’d been recording for a small French label […]

Sublime Documentary Is Officially in the Works with Sony Pictures

Sublime documentary

Photo Credit: Robson Hatsukami Morgan A Sublime biopic is officially in the works — backed by Sony Pictures. Sony’s 3000 Pictures is developing a movie with director Francis Lawrence (“The Hunger Games”) about Sublime, the […]

Rome and Duddy Announce “Winter Moon Tour” Dates

Rome and Duddy Announce "Winter Moon Tour" Dates

Sublime with Rome’s Rome Ramirez and Dirty Heads’ Duddy B do a lot together, whether it’s collaborating musically, co-hosting their podcast, or creating their line of CBD products. Now, Rome and Duddy are ready to return […]

Daddy Yankee Helped Make Reggaeton Mainstream

Daddy Yankee Helped Make Reggaeton Mainstream

Reggaeton originated in Panama as Afro-diasporic music. It was a transformation of dancehall, hip-hop, and reggae en español that eventually made its way to NYC, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the rest of Latin […]

A moment that changed me: As my parents argued, I watched reggae on TV and felt transported | Reggae

Janet Kay in 1984.

I heard reggae for the first time when I was 10, in the summer of 1972. My expat father was home on leave from Hong Kong, visiting my mum and I in our Devon bungalow. […]

Sheku Kanneh-Mason: ‘There was a time when I played in the bathroom’ | Sheku Kanneh-Mason

The Kanneh-Mason family in 2020.

The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 23, is the third of seven siblings – Isata, Braimah, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata, Mariatu, aged 26 to 13 years – all musicians who regularly perform together. He grew up in Nottingham […]

Dua Lipa insists she’s ‘never heard’ of songs named in Levitating copyright lawsuit – Music News

Dua Lipa insists she's 'never heard' of songs named in Levitating copyright lawsuit - Music News

Dua Lipa’s lawyer has insisted she’s “never heard” the tracks she is accused of infringing in a copyright lawsuit about her song Levitating. The singer was sued in March by songwriters L. Russell Brown and […]