Ariana Grande‘s Thank U, Next album is all but guaranteed to debut at Number One. When it does, it will be another in a long string of commercial slam-dunks for Grande. More surprising, the album’s success also represents a return to the charts for ‘NSync and Wendy Rene.That’s because “Break …

Every night, around the same time, they expected her to show up. It was hard to blame them, since much of what the Cranberries were doing last April and into May evoked old times. Once again, the members of the Irish alt-pop band were gathered in a studio with their …

Ahead of the 61st Grammy Awards this Sunday, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow and host Alicia Keys are doubling down on expressions of excitement for the slate of awards and performances. At Thursday morning’s press preview and red carpet rollout, Keys said the production of the show has been a …

George Klein, a longtime friend of Elvis Presley and a member of the King of Rock & Roll’s “Memphis Mafia” entourage, died Tuesday in a Memphis hospice after a two-week illness, which included pneumonia. Priscilla Presley, Elvis’s former wife told the Associated Press she had been in close contact with …

When a group of young, idealistic hippies came together in mid-Sixties San Francisco to form Jefferson Airplane, they couldn’t have possibly imagined they were kickstarting a saga that would continue for more than a half-century and mutate into more bizarre permutations than basically any other rock band in history. The …

Evanescence will embark on a short tour, which includes appearances at many festivals, with most of the dates in the spring and a couple this summer. The shows will mark a return to the band’s standard rock-group format, following its Synthesis Live Tour, which paired them with orchestras. The tour …

Brandi Carlile hosted her inaugural Girls Just Wanna Weekend this past week in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Featuring three separate sets by Carlile, the all-women lineup included Indigo Girls, Mavis Staples and Maren Morris, who debuted a new duet with Carlile on Night 1. Titled “Common,” the song found the two …

YG, Rich the Kid and Bia take turns boasting on “Facts,” the new single from the DJ Chantel Jeffries. Jeffries produced the “Facts” beat with Prince Fox: It’s a stolid, unvarying take on the trap template. Bia brags (“I’m a big deal like my name all caps”), YG makes food-related …

Florida Georgia Line have released “Women,” the latest offering from their upcoming albumCan’t Say I Ain’t Country. Featuring Jason Derulo, the song is the latest in a series of country tunes sung by male performers (Keith Urban’s “Female,” Dierks Bentley’s “Woman, Amen”) and dedicated — with varying degrees of success …

Lil Baby gazes out at the beach, poses for fan selfies, cruises the beach on an ATV and performs onstage in his intimate “Global” video. The rapper filmed the clip during his recent travels to Paris, France; Manchester, England; Lagos, Nigeria and Freeport, Bahamas. “Global” appears on Lil Baby’s recent …