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Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, and Kirk Franklin held a Sunday Service gospel performance last night. During his segment, West paid tribute to the late Kobe Bryant, singing, “I was driving home/They was leaving your jersey on the freeway, and I just broke down, broke down, broke down.” In addition, Chance rapped his verse from

Tonight at the 2020 Grammy Awards, Billie Eilish won Record of the Year for her single “bad guy.” She picked up the win over songs by Bon Iver (“Hey, Ma”), Ariana Grande (“7 rings”), Lil Nas X (“Old Town Road (Remix)”), Swae Lee and Post Malone (“Sunflower”), Lizzo (“Truth Hurts”), Khalid (“Talk”), and H.E.R. (“Hard

The 2020 Grammy Awards are finally here. The show is taking place today in Los Angeles. Find the full list of winners, which we’ll be updating in real time throughout the night, below. Lizzo led this year’s nominations with eight nods including Album, Record, and Song of the Year, as well as Best New Artist.

Halsey stopped by Saturday Night Live last night to perform a rodeo-riding “You Should Be Sad” and “Finally // beautiful stranger” from her new album, Manic. She also starred alongside host Adam Driver in a sketch called “Slow,” a satirical music video in which the slow-jam ethos reaches its absurdly illogical conclusion. Watch clips from

YG has been arrested in Los Angeles in connection with an investigation of an alleged robbery, TMZ and CBSLA report. According to the reports, officers L.A. County Sheriff’s Department arrived at YG’s home early this morning (January 24) with a search warrant. The rapper was then taken into custody and is being held at Men’s

FKA twigs will perform Sunday night at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, where she’ll take the stage with Sheila E. and Usher for a tribute to the late Prince. twigs said that she would join the previously-announced homage to the Purple One during an interview with Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio show. FKA twigs has

Bassist Juan Alderete—a member of the Mars Volta and touring player for Marilyn Manson and Deltron 3030, among others—suffered a traumatic brain injury as the result of a bicycle accident on January 13, his wife Anne Alderete revealed via Instagram. The musician sustained what is known as a diffuse axonal injury and is currently in

Chance the Rapper is set to host MTV’s rebooted celebrity prank show Punk’d. It’s coming to the mobile video platform Quibi, which launches in April 2020. In a press release, Chance said, “Punk’d is one of MTV’s most iconic franchises.” He added, “I grew up watching this show and it’s surreal to be in the driver’s

In 2017, Meek Mill was sued by three different parties over a shooting that happened at a December 2016 concert at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, Connecticut. One man, Dylan Thomas, was shot in the leg and sued the rapper as well as Live Nation and the concert venue for damages. That case was dropped

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Jeff Parker, Andy Shauf, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Hook, and Wire. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s

Chromatics have released a new single called “Toy.” It arrives in three different versions: “Toy,” “Toy (On Film),” and “Toy (Instrumental).” Check it out below. In a statement about the track, singer Ruth Radelet said, “It’s a song about trying to forget someone you’re still in love with even though they treat you like an

Grimes has confirmed that she is pregnant. The artist first posted a photo of herself on Instagram on January 8 that appeared to reveal the news. The uncensored nude image was then taken down from Instagram, but she uploaded the below alternate version. “The photo is so much less feral without the nipples,” she wrote

After Deborah Dugan, former president and CEO of the Recording Academy, was placed on administrative leave amid accusations of bullying, she filed a complaint outlining allegations of discrimination, sexual harassment, corruption, and much more. She also claimed she was told that her predecessor at the Recording Academy, Neil Portnow—the man who stirred controversy with his

Joni Mitchell has announced the reissue of her 2007 album Shine via Craft. The album’s first-ever vinyl release is due out April 3. The record includes an updated version of her 1970 classic “Big Yellow Taxi,” as well as “One Week Last Summer,” which won Best Instrumental Pop Performance at the 2008 Grammys. It is

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled that Juice WRLD died of an accidental overdose of Oxycodone and codeine toxicity. It was previously reported that Juice WRLD, was treated with Narcan (a pharmaceutical used to combat opioid overdoses) and taken to a hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, where he died on December 8 at

When Bernie Sanders was running for president in 2016, Vampire Weekend appeared with the senator at multiple rallies. It’s 2020, and both Vampire Weekend and Bon Iver will be performing at Bernie Sanders rallies in Iowa. Bon Iver will appear with Sanders on January 31 at the Horizon Events Center in Clive, Iowa. Vampire Weekend

Pearl Jam’s new album Gigaton is coming on March 27 via Monkeywrench/Republic. Today, the band have offered the first taste of new music from the album. The song is called “Dance of the Clairvoyants.” Take a listen below. “‘Dance’ was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration,” Jeff Ament said. “We’ve opened some new

The Weeknd has shared the music video for “Blinding Lights.” It’s directed by Anton Tammi, who also helmed the visual for “Heartless,” and picks up right where the other one left off, as a very energized Abel Tesfaye zooms through the city streets in a sports car. There’s a fair amount of street dancing, too.

Mitski has shared a new song from the soundtrack to Floria Sigismondi’s horror movie The Turning. Her contribution is titled “Cop Car.” Listen below. Lawrence and Yves Rothman produced The Turning Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Mitski’s track follows offerings from Courtney Love, Soccer Mommy, Lawrence Rothman featuring Pale Waves, the Aubreys, and Empress Of. The

In April 2018, Prince’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital that treated the singer for a fentanyl overdose less than a week before he died in 2016. Now, according to a report by the Associated Press, that lawsuit has been “quietly dismissed in recent months.” The defendants of the suit included the

Netflix has shared the first trailer for Spenser Confidential, a new action-comedy movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Winston Duke. Co-starring in the film are Post Malone and Marc Maron. Watch the new clip below. Spenser Confidential, directed by Peter Berg, premieres on Netflix on March 6. The movie was inspired by Ace Atkins‘ book Robert

Radiohead.com is now home to the Radiohead Public Library. Today, the band have launched the comprehensive archive of all things Radiohead in a corrective to the disorder of the online space. To commemorate the launch, the band have released a handful of rarities to streaming services: Below, check out their debut EP, 1992’s Drill; the

On December 20, 2019, My Chemical Romance played their first concert as a band in over seven years. Now, they have shared their first taste of new music. Earlier today (January 19), My Chemical Romance released a video scored by an instrumental track. Watch the clip, titled “An Offering,” below. The visual follows a cloaked

Sin Quirin, current guitarist for the industrial metal band Ministry, has been accused by two women of engaging in sexual intercourse with them while they were 15 and 16 years old, respectively. In a new SPIN report published in Billboard, both women alleged that they each met Quirin following concerts by his band Society 1,

Johnny Marr is working with Hans Zimmer on the score for the next James Bond film No Time to Die, NME reports and Marr’s representative confirmed to Pitchfork. Zimmer—who was recently announced to replace composer Dan Romer, three months before the release of the film—previously worked with the Smiths guitarist on films including Inception and

Mitski is a musical guest on this weekend’s Austin City Limits. Ahead of the episode, ACL has shared a video of Mitski performing “Happy” from 2016’s Puberty 2. Watch below. The full episode airs on PBS on Saturday, January 18 at 9 p.m. Eastern. Mitski last released Be The Cowboy in 2018. Coming up, she

Björk has created a generative score for the boutique Manhattan hotel Sister City. The score is titled Kórsafan. Björk said in a statement: “an architectural structure in downtown manhattan offered me the hand in an AI tango and i accepted the call, i am alert with curiosity waiting the results. i offered them my choir