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The Jamaican singer Jada Kingdom broke out with “Best You Ever Had (B.Y.E.H.),” a bouncy track about a cruelly one-sided relationship: “You tore my heart out and threw it in the bin,” she sang, “but I still wanna bless you.” The narrator of “Finally” is in a better place. “You …

Panda Bear has shared his bass-heavy new song “Playing the Long Game,” a one-off single that follows the Animal Collective member’s 2019 solo LP Buoys. Like that album, “Playing the Long Game” boasts production by Rusty Santos, who worked with Panda Bear to create Buoys’ “hyper-modern,” sub-bass-reliant sound. “We would …

Two purported members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods were found guilty on multiple charges due, in part, to the testimony of rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, the New York Times reports. On Thursday, a jury in the Federal District Court in Manhattan handed down several guilty verdicts to Anthony Ellison and …

Prosecutors for the Central District of California charged three men — Stephen Walter, Ryan Reavis and Cameron James Pettit — with the distribution of drugs that they allege resulted in the death of Mac Miller. While the three men were previously hit with various charges upon their arrests, a rep …

The young Nigerian singer Lyta enlisted Davido to add a gritty guest verse to his feathery single “Monalisa.” “Monalisa” is just the third single from Lyta to appear on Spotify. The original, released in July, is a handsome contradiction, with fierce expressions of yearning — “You get my number I …

It’s official: Gen Z stans the Nineties just as much as millennials do. Eighteen-year-old London musician Bea Kristi, who performs under beabadoobee, released her new single “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus” this week, and the song’s devotion to the alt-rock prophet goes beyond a name-check. “Sitting at home, crying …

The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers posted a lengthy tribute to late Cars singer Ric Ocasek following his death over the weekend. Flowers shared the text of an email he wrote to Ocasek a few years ago via The Killers’ Twitter, noting, “Feeling grateful for Ric. Had the opportunity to send …

A lot of artists have complained about the abysmal sound quality of digital music over the years, but Neil Young is one of the few that actually did something about it. It began in 2012, when Young began talking about his plans to create a high-resolution digital music company called …

Marvin Gaye‘s legendary May 1972 concert in Washington D.C., featuring the singer’s only full album performance of his classic What’s Going On, will be reissued as a standalone live album for the first time this October. What’s Going On Live, due out October 18th via Motown/UMe, highlights Gaye’s May 1st, …

Charli XCX has released her latest collaborative track from her upcoming third studio album, Charli, out on September 13th. The song, “Warm,” features vocals from the band Haim, which describe a relationship on the rocks over a subdued electronic beat. “You’ve gotta tell me the reason/Why we can’t fall in …