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Sean Combs was reportedly placed back in solitary confinement following a NBC News report that the music mogul was using a contraband cellphone to scroll on Instagram, kept a private stash of premium liquor, and had access to a jailbroken tablet where he watched a Netflix documentary about himself. The 56-year-old was put in a special housing unit, both NBC and TMZ have reported, after footage was released of Combs seemingly using a cell phone while serving his 50-month sentence at Fort Dix in New Jersey. This would be Combs’ second time placed in isolation, following a physical fight with…
Conrad “Cronos” Lant, bassist and lead singer of the black metal pioneers Venom, has died at the age of 63. Lant’s death was announced Thursday by his Venom bandmates on social media; no cause of death was provided. “It is with profound sadness and broken hearts that we share the news that Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant has passed away. For more than four decades, Conrad’s voice, bass and vision were at the heart of Venom,” the band wrote. “From the first dark rumblings of [albums] Welcome to Hell, through Black Metal, At War With Satan, Possessed and beyond, he created something…
The Ivors Academy has honoured Stormzy, James Blake and Glastonbury‘s Emily Eavis and more for their contributions to music. The recipients were announced at the Ivors Academy Honours ceremony, which was held at the Intercontinental London on Park Lane tonight (Thursday October 1). The awards recognise the creators and executives setting higher standards across the sector, and celebrates those who are taking steps to help carve out a better future for songwriters and composers. At the event, singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist James Blake was awarded for his exceptional artistry and advocacy for songwriters and artists. The Grammy-winning artist released…
With his two reportedly sold-out concerts in Russia canceled amid a messy dispute, Kanye West is looking for better news on the legal front in California. The artist now known as Ye has filed a new motion in Los Angeles seeking to dismiss the wrongful termination and harassment lawsuit brought by a staffer involved in Ye’s now-defunct and highly controversial K-12 private Christian school, Donda Academy. A trial is scheduled for January. The staffer, Murphy Aficionado, sued Ye in November 2024, alleging that his job as a Yeezy project manager became a living “nightmare” after Ye purportedly hired him in…
Two years after City Girls officially split to focus on their respective solo careers, Yung Miami has finally announced the arrival of her debut album, Watch Dis. On Thursday, the rapper shared an appropriately dramatic trailer for the long-teased LP. The clip opens with public criticism she has faced from Joe Budden along with Akademiks—who comments, “You failed at everything in life, the music you made is wack”—before Miami responds, “I don’t know how some days I built the courage to go in the studio to even record. But I remember putting all my emotions, all of that energy, everything…
Sean Ono Lennon didn’t understand the full scope of the documentary he directed, threeASFOUR: Full Circle, until editing it. On the surface, he had made a 94-minute film about his friends, the three designers behind the avant-garde fashion house threeASFOUR and how they struggled to make artistic styles in money-hungry New York City. But as he lived with their stories and thought about how the designers, Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil had Lebanese-Palestinian, Tajik-German, and Israeli roots, respectively, he recognized a bigger picture. “It was actually quite a few years into working on the film that I suddenly…
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“I’m putting a karaoke machine in my house,” Bobby Pulido admits with a bit of a sheepish grin. The two-time Latin Grammy winner and icon of Tejano music is simultaneously preparing for perhaps two of the biggest professional milestones of his life, both set to take place in the coming weeks: his last concert and his first congressional election. “If people want me to represent them and they believe that I could best represent them, I’m perfectly comfortable never having a concert again,” he tells me during a media and fundraising blitz that brought him through New York City. Pulido is…
Il regolamento di Sanremo 2027 vieta l’intelligenza artificiale quando sostituisce il contributo creativo umano, e un producer ha già trovato cinque modi per aggirarlo. Il rischio, secondo l’avvocato Fabio Falcone, è che al Festival vinca non chi usa meno l’AI ma chi la nasconde meglio, magari facendo risuonare da musicisti un brano nato su Suno. Torna Dillo all’avvocato, la rubrica in cui Falcone, specializzato in diritto d’autore e diritto dello spettacolo, racconta le domande che arrivano nel suo studio da chi lavora nella musica. Nell’ultimo appuntamento aveva analizzato il caso di Giusy Ferreri, che ha depositato la sua voce come…
Lil Nas X is back with his first new song of the year. “World’s Greatest” follows the 2025 EP Days Before Dreamboy, and marks the latest step in a return to music following his 2025 arrest and hospitalization after allegedly charging after police officers in Los Angeles. “‘Walk by faith, not by sight’ was my mom’s favorite phrase to say,” he wrote yesterday, in the caption of an Instagram post announcing “World’s Greatest.” “As I move through life it resonates with me more & more.”The six-minute “World’s Greatest” video was directed by Phillip Youmans and shot in Lil Nas’ hometown…
