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Arlo Guthrie performs during the 50th anniversary celebration of Woodstock at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Aug. 15, 2019 in Bethel, New York. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died at age 83. Her death, just a week before Thanksgiving, was...

Lil Wayne performs at 2024 Roots Picnic at Fairmount Park on June 1, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kayla Oaddams/Getty Images Lil Wayne appears to have some thoughts on Kendrick Lamar‘s new song “wacced out murals.” On Friday (Nov. 22), Lamar surprised fans with the release of his sixth studio album, GNX. The 12-track project covers...

Taylor Swift performs onstage during “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at Rogers Centre on Nov. 14, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. Emma McIntyre/TAS24/Getty Images Justin Trudeau showed off his dance moves at Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour concert in Toronto. On Friday (Nov. 22), the Canadian prime minister and his family attended the pop superstar’s second-to-last...

Back in 2007, Diplo and Switch were ready to launch the music they’d been working on together; they just needed to figure out what to call themselves. They each chose a bunch of words at random, wrote them on pieces of paper and threw them in a hat. They pulled two out, first was “major”...

Taylor Swift performs onstage during “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour” at Rogers Centre on Nov. 14, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. Emma McIntyre/TAS24/Getty Images Taylor Swift is perfectly fine with subtly teasing her ex-boyfriend, Joe Jonas. Swift dated Jonas between July and October of 2008, and the relationship infamously ended when he broke up with...

Kendrick Lamar pgLang November is coming to an end, but things are just starting to heat up in the music world with the slew of new drops this week. To kick things off, Kendrick Lamar unveiled his sixth studio album, GNX, without any warning on Friday (Nov. 22). The 12-track project features contributions from SZA —...

Subtronics & Alison Wonderland ohdagyo This week in dance music: Charli XCX performed “Sympathy Is a Knife” and “360” on Saturday Night Live, Skrillex announced that his next project will be his last with Atlantic Records, Giorgio Moroder was named as the recipient of an upcoming lifetime achievement award from The Society of Composers &...

Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift Neil Mockford/WireImage; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Ariana Grande is at the top of the mountain for Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 debuts, but she isn’t there alone. In a new TikTok video shared by MTV UK Friday (Nov. 22), the 31-year-old pop star had a sweet reaction to finding out that...

TWICE has officially conquered the Amazon Music Live stage, with the nine-piece K-pop girl group performing “I Got You” after Thursday Night Football on Prime Video Thursday (Nov. 21). Divided up across three platforms on stage, Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung and Tzuyu stood spread out in front of standing microphones, modeling...

HYDE Takayuki Okada/Billboard Japan On Oct. 26 and 27, HYDE performed HYDE [INSIDE] LIVE 2024 -EXTRA- at Chiba’s Makuhari Messe. These shows were an extension of HYDE [INSIDE] LIVE 2024, the music club tour he kicked off at Tokyo’s Zepp Haneda (TOKYO) on June 22. As is clear from its name, this tour was in...