Belly has dropped a new song, “Better Believe,” featuring appearances from the Weeknd and Young Thug. The track is accompanied by a glossy, action-packed music video directed by Christian Breslauer. “Better Believe” will appear on Belly’s forthcoming album See You Next Wednesday, which is slated for release this summer via …

California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing is suing video game giant Activision Blizzard over allegations of sexual harassment. Activision Blizzard is one of the largest and most valuable video game companies in the industry and is the developer of popular titles including Call of Duty, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, …

Trippie Redd and Lil Uzi Vert have teamed up in the video for new song “Holy Smokes.” The track is expected to appear on Trippie Redd’s upcoming Trip at Knight album. The Mooch-directed video opens with an explosion lighting up the night sky over a city, which signals something strange …

Brandi Carlile will release the follow-up to her Grammy-winning By the Way, I Forgive You this fall. The new album, titled In These Silent Days, arrives via Low Country Sound/Elektra Records on October 1st and includes the first single “Right on Time,” premiering Wednesday. “Right on Time” leads off In …

Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon, may be impossible to duplicate. It was arguably the hip-hop event of a pandemic-blighted year, generating hit singles even as fans of his mixtape work rebelled against everything from the initial Virgil Abloh-created artwork to an excess of …

A recent debate over a lyric in a beloved Bruce Springsteen song has been settled by one of the rock legend’s closest collaborators. The intense argument between Springsteen fans began on July 3rd when New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman tweeted the “Thunder Road” opening lyric prior to a Springsteen …

Dustin Lynch offered up a pair of new songs on Friday. The surprise releases “Pasadena” and “Not Every Cowboy” are the country singer’s first new music to appear since his fourth album, Tullahoma, was released in early 2020. In comparison to the Tullahoma singles “Good Girl” and “Ridin’ Roads,” both …

Lucy Dacus sat behind an actual tiny desk for her NPR Tiny Desk Concert appearance, filmed at her high school alma mater, Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School in Richmond, Virginia. With her band — which includes two of her former classmates, guitarist Jacob Blizard and audio engineer Collin Pastore — …

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been promising for months that new cannabis legislation is coming “soon.” “Soon” has finally arrived. Schumer, along with Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Wednesday released a draft of legislation to legalize cannabis. Dubbed the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA), …

It’s boom time for creator-economy music investments. The startup Songfinch, which provides customized songs at listeners’ requests, is the latest music startup to lock down major industry money: The Weeknd, his manager Wassim “Sal” Slaiby and Atlantic Records CEO and chairman Craig Kallman are all investors in the company’srecently closed …