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Exclusive Post Malone is taking steps to turn his favorite drinking game into big biz … we’ve learned the wheels are in motion for a world beer pong league!!! The “Beerbongs & Bentleys” rapper is looking to lock up the rights to “World Pong League” … and Post and his legal team have gone so
K-pop superstars BTS have announced a new song. The English-language single will arrive August 21. The song’s title has not yet been revealed, but the track will mark the lead single from BTS’ next studio album. “We have prepared a new single for ARMY, set for August 21,” BTS revealed on their community platform BTS
Exclusive Details Kanye West‘s last-ditch effort to make the presidential ballot in his home state worked … but it cost him a nice chunk of change. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Kanye’s campaign team hired a third-party vendor called Let The Voters Decide to collect the 2,500 signatures to make the ballot in
Fleetwood Mac founding guitarist Peter Green has died, as the BBC reports. A statement issued on behalf of his family reads, “It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep.” He was 73 years old. An influential musician, Green was a prominent figure in
Peter Green, one of the founding members of Fleetwood Mac, has died. The family put out a statement that said … “It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep.” Green, a blues/rock guitarist, created Fleetwood Mac with Mick Fleetwood way back in ’67,
Last night (July 24), Florida rapper 9lokknine was arrested in Orlando last night on charges of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm, as Pitchfork can confirm via Orange County government records. The artist born Jacquavius Dennard Smith was also charged with shooting into an occupied structure and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Exclusive Bobby Shmurda‘s plan for life after prison includes dropping new music and talking to at-risk youths about leading a better life …. but these plans all hinge on how well his parole hearing goes. The rapper’s mother, Leslie Pollard, tells TMZ … Bobby plans to tell the parole board next month if they release
Chicago artist Sen Morimoto was scheduled to have a performance featured in the city’s “Millennium Park at Home” virtual concert series on Thursday (July 23), but the event was canceled at the last minute, as the Chicago Tribune notes. On social media, Morimoto wrote that his performance was “pulled from the lineup because of a
Exclusive Kanye West‘s making it a struggle for Kim Kardashian to reach him — he’s ducking some calls and rejecting her pleas to join him in Wyoming. Sources close to the couple tell TMZ … there’s been very little communication between husband and wife since he jetted off for his South Carolina rally last weekend,
Gunna has released the deluxe edition of his latest album WUNNA. The deluxe WUNNA has eight additional tracks, including “RELENTLESS,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert. Check out the track below. Other guests on the deluxe version of WUNNA include Future, NAV, and Young Thug. The album followed Gunna’s 2019 record Drip or Drown 2. Lil Uzi
Exclusive A status hearing on Britney Spears‘ conservatorship never went down this week … because a group of people who had nothing to do with the case refused to get off the Zoom call so the judge could conduct a confidential hearing. The plan was routine — every 3 months or so, the judge calls
Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf has shared two new songs. “Judy” and “Jeremy’s Wedding” are B-sides from Shauf’s recent album The Neon Skyline.. Listen to both tracks below. The Neon Skyline is a concept album, and its songs all take place on the same night at the same bar. “‘Judy’ and ‘Jeremy’s Wedding’ were outliers to
Kanye West has a steady stream of close friends showing up in Wyoming — the latest being Damon Dash, who he took for an essential items shopping trip. It appears Dame arrived at Ranch West sometime Wednesday, and the duo hit up the Walmart in nearby Cody … wearing face masks to enter, as required.
Annie Ross, the jazz singer who acted as one-third of the popular vocal group Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, died in her Manhattan home on Tuesday (July 21), according to The New York Times. She was 89 years old. A cause of death has not been announced. Ross is best known for “Twisted”—a song sung from
Play video content Clayton Gardner / Facebook An alleged fan had the audacity to get on stage and apparently cough on country singer Clayton Gardner … who recoiled, and then shamed her into getting the hell away from him. The incident went down during Clayton’s weekend gig at Texican Court in Irving, TX … where
After multiple anonymous allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced over the weekend regarding both artists and label staff, Burger Records announced plans for “major structural changes” on Monday in an effort to address a “culture of toxic masculinity.” Co-founder and president Lee Rickard resigned, co-founder Sean Bohrman announced plans to eventually step down, the label changed
Breaking News Russell Wilson says there’s a chance he won’t be allowed in the hospital room when Ciara gives birth to the couple’s child later this summer … saying COVID-19 might force him to sit out. “That’s what we don’t know,” the NFL superstar told fill-in host Joel McHale on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week.
Pitchfork is pleased to announce that Jeff Rosenstock will play a stay-at-home concert that will broadcast live on Instagram Wednesday, July 22, at 5 p.m. Eastern. You can tune in at Pitchfork’s Instagram. Rosenstock’s performance is part of a series of concert sessions that take place on our Instagram on Wednesdays, and viewers will be
Britney Spears‘ old digs — the home that served as the backdrop when the singer went into free fall, shaved her head and ended up being involuntarily committed — is back on the market, and anyone who still has millions of bucks can now get it for a steal. The pop singer’s former Beverly Hills
Drake has hopped on a new song by London rapper Headie One. “Only You Freestyle” was produced by M1 on the Beat. “I had to go hard, especially on a track with one of the best drill artists in the world,” Drake said in a press release. “Scratch that—the best drill artist in the world.”
Exclusive Kanye West‘s off-the-rails campaign stop Sunday in North Charleston, South Carolina may not only hurt Ye politically, he has concerned, upset and alarmed many of his friends and the Kardashians … sources connected to Kanye tell TMZ. Our sources say the Kardashians believe Kanye is in desperate need of professional help and is in
A deluxe edition of Pop Smoke’s posthumous album Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon has been released, and it comes with 15 new songs. Listen to them below. Prior to the release of the new deluxe version, Pop Smoke’s debut album featured 19 songs. Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon featured
Kanye West is trading his Sunday Service for a campaign junket. The standard-bearer of the Birthday Party will travel to South Carolina Sunday for his first campaign event. Ye will speak at the Exquis Event Center in North Charleston, but there are lots of restrictions. First, the event is only for registered guests. Also, anyone
Mykki Blanco has claimed that they’ve not been paid for their feature on Teyana Taylor’s K.T.S.E. song “WTP.” Mykki also claimed “it took [one] year with the help of [her] lawyer to get credited on the song,” and they asked fans to stop streaming the track. Mykki wrote: The reason I have gone public with
Kanye West‘s presidential campaign just keeps rolling along, and he’s now setting his sights on South Carolina … where he’s trying to grab enough signatures to get on the November ballot. Kanye posted a tweet, urging S.C. voters to support him with a signature. His petition reads, “I am signing to put Kanye West on
Perry Farrell has announced a new box set called Perry Farrell – The Gliz; The Glamour. It gathers highlights from his decades-long solo career, beginning with his pre-Jane’s Addiction band Psi Com all the way through last year’s solo record Kind Heaven, in addition to remixes, B-sides, and other rarities from his catalog. The substantial
Exclusive Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are going back to work on the Puerto Rican movie set where they first met … and set in motion her split from Brian Austin Green. Megan and MGK arrived Thursday in San Juan after flying in together from the mainland, ready to get back to business on
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that indoor concerts and performances will begin in England as early as August 1, as Billboard reports and UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden confirmed in a tweet. The plan marks phase four of England’s five-stage reopening strategy for live events. Social distancing will be enforced at the indoor
Exclusive LAPD is now officially looking into the allegation Megan Thee Stallion suffered gunshot wounds … and they’re taking a hard look at Tory Lanez as the potential trigger man. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … detectives have now opened an assault with a deadly weapon investigation into what allegedly happened early Sunday morning shortly