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For nearly five decades, the music club Toad’s Place in New Haven, Conn. has earned an outsized national reputation that has drawn superstars including Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel — and most memorably the Rolling Stones — to its 750-capacity room. Now the club’s history has been captured in the new book The Legendary Toad’s...

The spookiest day of the year is less than a week away and we’ve got some tracks that are sure to make your Halloween kickback one to remember. From the laid-back alt-energy of Sam Austins and Keshi to Maxo Kream’s latest gritty release alongside A$AP Rocky, we’ve got the tracks you’ll need to carry you through the next...

Known for wearing many hats, Pharrell Williams‘ producer cap is the one he started out in. The 48-year-old artist has long been a visible figure in pop culture, serving as a judge on NBC’s The Voice and creating the addictive “Happy” for the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack. More recently, though, Williams has been holed up in the studio with...

BottleRock has made playing until the plug gets pulled a rite of passage at their annual Napa, Calif., festival, where the event’s 10 pm curfew is enforced with a kill switch. The sudden loss of amplified sound can be jarring, but when the crowd chimes in to close out song, like they did during this...

Billboard readers have crowned Juan de Dios “JD” Pantoja and Kimberly Loaiza as their favorite Latin couple of 2021 (so far). In a fan poll published earlier this month, Billboard highlighted 11 couples in the Latin industry. Pantoja and Loaiza, who are two Mexican influencers-turned-musicians who have collaborated multiple times, took the crown with nearly...

Lil’ Kim is serving as the narrator of BET+’s hit true crime series American Gangster: Trap Queens for the second consecutive season, helping to chronicle the crime-ridden lives of female lawbreakers. Fans can watch the new season on BET+ to learn more about infamous figures like Tonesa Welch, Peggy Fulford, Claudette Hubbard, Priscilla Echi and former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh; the latter’s...

Giselle of the K-pop girl group aespa has issued an apology via Twitter for mouthing a racial slur in a YouTube video featuring the group. On Saturday, the group’s agency, SM Entertainment, dropped a behind-the-scenes video of the girls shooting for their recent Savage EP, which debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the...

Kena: Bridge of Spirits was released in September to largely positive reviews (including a 9 out of 10 from us) and has performed well in sales. So much so that, according to developer Ember Labs, the game has already broken even on its development cost. In an interview with Bloomberg, Ember Lab heads Josh and Mike...

This week, Round Hill Music co-founder/CEO Josh Gruss will take two weeks off from running one of the more important new competitors in the music publishing business, but not for the beaches of St. Barts or the ski trails of Sun Valley, Idaho. He’ll be on the road opening for Buckcherry with Rubikon, the hard rock band he...

Garth Brooks is adding a third Nashville show to his November lineup, announcing a concert for Nov. 18 at the Grand Ole Opry House. The concert, titled “Just Garth, the Opry House & You,” comes after his two previously announced shows at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, set for Nov. 19-20, sold out immediately after tickets went...

It was already last week, Sony Interactive Entertainment formalized the arrival on PC of GOD OF WAR, a PS4 exclusive sold 19.5 million copies and the most successful game of its generation. Its arrival on PC is inevitably awaited with great impatience but Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed that it is not the Santa Monica studio...

After nearly a year-long delay, Beat Saber’s multiplayer mode is now live on PSVR. Live today, this mode brings five-player multiplayer to the critically acclaimed rhythm game, which has players slice through colored blocks to the beat of a given song. Players can hop into public matches with players from all over the world, or...

Adele‘s “Easy on Me” is the biggest song in the world, as it hits No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (both dated Oct. 30) following its Oct. 14 arrival. Plus, and adding to British acts’ highlights, Elton John and Dua Lipa‘s “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” reaches the Global...

A$AP Rocky has announced the release of his 2011 mixtape Live. Love. A$AP to all streaming platforms in celebration of its 10-year anniversary. The mixtape will be available to stream for the first time ever on Friday, one day before its original release date of Oct. 30. The acclaimed mixtape was first released as a free download and did...

“Jonny Greenwood, our composer, is a genius. Simple as that.”—Jane Campion Jonny Greenwood, July 2018 (Taylor Hill/Getty Images) Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead has shared two new songs from his forthcoming soundtrack to the Jane Campion film The Power of the Dog. Below, listen to “West” and “25 Years.” Greenwood’s The Power of the Dog soundtrack...

We now know what it’s going to take to run Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition on PC, thanks to the system requirements page on Rockstar Games’ website. As you might expect for a remaster of three decades-old games, it won’t require the beefiest PC on the market to play. Here’s what...