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Sia has sold a 50 percent stake in her music catalog for a whopping $180 million, Rolling Stone has confirmed. News of the sale was first reported by TMZ. The star closed the deal with Pophouse, the Swedish music catalog investment firm co-founded by Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus, and will be collaborating with the firm to launch an immersive digital avatar production based around her music. An official announcement is expected imminently. The singer-songwriter’s plans to crossover into the digital realm will include a show incorporating her songs as an artist and as a writer, according to a source familiar with…

Megan Thee Stallion has dropped her new single ‘Tina Tuesday Freestyle’ – check it out below. The track marks the start of her ‘Act III’ era as Megan raps in front of an orange sports car. “Man, I hate when a n—a go ghost / They see me looking good, wanna hit me with a text / Respectfully, you getting left on seen / I’m the type of bitch to let the dead rest,” she spits. The track, which you can view below, is Megan’s first since her recent World Cup collaboration ‘DNA (More Than A Game)‘ featuring Andrea Bocelli,…

Bubble Treasure’s songwriting feels almost intentionally antithetical to Toxe’s club-centric past. The Siren she is, she spends most of the album luring us in and teasing us with a drop that never comes. The title track follows the sparse opener with what should shape up to be a dramatic banger—its heavy lead synths almost resemble witch house—but the payoff never hits; those synths just trudge on and on as her mesmeric vocals rain down (“I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care/Waterfall, waterfall”). Over soft keys, “Wishing Well” adds new pieces measure by measure before a piano refrain washes…

Over 50 years ago, hip hop was born in the Bronx during the summer of 1973. Throughout the decades, hip hop continues to evolve as a global cultural movement that inspires artists and fans alike. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a self-professed fan of hip hop who used to rap under the moniker “Young Cardamom,” recently sat with rap icon Nas at Queensbridge Park, outside of Nas’s childhood home at the Queensbridge Projects. In a new video from the Mayor’s Office, Mamdani and Nas discuss the roots of hip hop and what it means to New York City’s past and future. “We can’t be…

The word “estrus”–referring to the fertile window of a female animal’s hormone cycle, more commonly described as being “in heat”–derives from words for madness. The word’s Latin and Greek roots refer to gadflies, who feed in biting frenzies; “oistros” was used by Plato and Socrates to describe a kind of frantic, burning passion. So while on the surface, ESTRUS may seem like a characteristically horny album title from the Swedish pop provocateur Tove Lo, it also hints at a maddening, all-consuming state that’s a little less sexy. Tove Lo has said that, in choosing the title for her sixth studio…

Welcome to Pitchfork.com review No. 8,333 on a self-loathing white dude documenting his love-hate relationship with his boring-as-shit but quaint hometown. Up to the plate is 300SkullsAndCounting, aka Hal Hewetson, a twentysomething from Warwick out in the middle of England who has been dropping hard-to-categorize bedroom screamo made with the unchecked curiosity I tend to associate with pandemic-era hyperpop and rave-ready internet rap. Click around his SoundCloud page and you might land on a Miami bass breakdown transitioned into Bring Me the Horizon-style metalcore vocals, or a reference to a forgotten Taika Waititi rom-com morphed into goofball hardstyle EDM. I’d…

Following a pair of short, sketch-like tracks (“Dusk” and “Moonshot”) more in keeping with the classic ambient dub of the early 1990s, Hallucinator set out for unknown territory in the album’s closing sequence. “Wipeout I,” “Recall (Wipeout II),” and “Rocket,” all exclusive to the album, strip away the drums to plunge into a maelstrom of hissing noise, grinding feedback, and, in the case of “Rocket,” roiling, overdriven synth riffs. Taken together, the three tracks suggest an unexpected link to the industrial music of the 1970s and ’80s, along with the electronic proto-punk of Suicide. “Hallucinator,” a track from their debut…

Mogwai have announced career-spanning compilation ‘Happy Tears’, which includes a brand new song featuring Iggy Pop. Check it out below. Set for release on January 8, the upcoming record will track the key songs from across the Scottish band’s 30-year career, and also feature rarities from across their discography – including a previous digital-only single and a special re-working of ‘New Paths To Helicon 1’, titled ‘Brand New Paths to Helicon 1’. Available on 2xCD and digital download formats, the album will also come on a 4xLP format, which features 13 additional tracks, six of which are previously unreleased, alongside…

Muse have revealed the support act for their 2026 UK and European arena tour. Find all the details below. The Devon trio will head out on the road later this year in support of their 10th studio album, ‘The Wow! Signal’, which was released in June. Matt Bellamy and co. are due to kick off the trek with two concerts at Manchester’s Co-op Live on November 12 and 13, before playing a pair of shows at The O2 in London on November 15 and 16. From there, Muse will head to Europe for performances in Berlin, Milan, Düsseldorf, Paris, Amsterdam,…

Fontaines D.C. have shared another new single, ‘Tongue’ – you can listen to it below. The track will appear on the Dublin band’s fifth studio album, ‘Dopamine Chamber’, released on October 16 via XL Recordings. It follows on from lead single ‘Marianne’, which arrived last month. Guitarist Carlos O’Connell pushed frontman Grian Chatten’s vocal through a sampler to distort the pitch on ‘Tongue’, resembling “a malicious extraterrestrial voice” over screeching guitars, eerie piano and strings. Fontaines aimed to process and twist the human elements of the single into strange and disorienting shapes. “Deep inside your brain/ I feel the same,”…