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The singer's Slope Day show at Cornell University was canceled in April over what the university president deemed her "antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments." All the Jewish groups that have traditionally participated in the San Diego Pride Festival have pulled out of this year’s event due to headliner Kehlani‘s vocal support for Palestine. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, eight organizations and synagogues issued a joint statement this week saying that their decision was […]

As G*59 label partner and manager of its marquee act, he has built a streaming, touring and merchandising juggernaut largely outside of the broader industry — and it's shaping hip-hop's future. n 2015, Dana Biondi was looking for the future. The frat-rap and weed-rap crazes in the early 2010s catapulted artists like Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y to fame, but by the middle of the decade, Biondi — who had promoted […]

Trump deployed the National Guard in response to Los Angeles protests against ICE over the weekend. With an uptick in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and contentious protests against ICE taking place in Los Angeles, Cardi B explained why she didn’t speak out about the events in recent days. The Grammy-winning rapper spoke up during an X Spaces captured by Complex early Tuesday (June 10) that she doesn’t feel her voice will be heard […]

Warren and Tate McRae are the only artists with initial No. 1s in 2025. Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” adds a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, a week after it became the singer-songwriter’s first leader on the list. Warren co-wrote “Ordinary” with Mags Duval, Cal Shapiro and Adam Yaron, who solely produced it. As reported on Billboard’s new Substack channel, Duval, celebrated the song topping the Hot 100 on Instagram. “I think back to the […]

The parody king is still showing younger performers from John Mayer to Clairo how to stand out — and stay in the game. Am I the first person to feel strange calling you ‘weird’?” John Mayer — bespectacled, grinning goofily, very much nerding out — is sitting across from “Weird Al” Yankovic, interviewing the Hawaiian shirt-clad parody music king, who is sitting across from him for his SiriusXM show, How’s Life With […]

The groundbreaking leader of Sly and the Family Stone was one of the pioneers of funk music and among the most influential musicians of the past 60 years. Sly Stone, the groundbreaking funk and psych-rock pioneer who led the iconic Sly and the Family Stone group in the 1960s into the early 1980s, died Monday (June 9), according to a statement from his family. He was 82. Stone, the guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, […]

Plus: SEVENTEEN and Miley Cyrus debut in top five, while Taylor Swift's reputation returns to top 10. Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 14) for a third consecutive week, following its debut atop the list dated May 31. It earned 246,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending June 5 (down 14%), according to Luminate. It’s the largest third week for […]

The pop star appeared in the hit series from 2006 to 2011. Miley Cyrus is opening up about her music career after leaving Hannah Montana behind. In a recent interview on The Ringer podcast, the 32-year-old pop star and actress revealed that following the end of the hit Disney Channel series in 2011, she was banned from performing any songs associated with the teen sitcom.   “After I left Disney, […]