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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Mya is back with a brand new album, and to hear the Grammy-winning singer tell it, she’s using this release to let loose — and to encourage others to do the same. Retrospect was released May 15 and was “inspired by the pioneers of the late Seventies and Eighties funk era,” the singer tells Rolling Stone. Her first album in eight years, Mya says that while her last two albums were “more rooted in slow jams and mid-tempos,”…

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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week the main pop girls are back: Charli XCX contemplates celebrity and self-image while strutting through the apocalypse, Olivia Rodrigo tries to cure a broken heart to no avail, and Lola Young returns to music with a powerful ballad. Plus, new songs from Ariana Grande, Bleachers, Fakemink, Álvaro Díaz, and Moses Sumney. Charli XCX, “SS26” (YouTube) Olivia Rodrigo, “The Cure” (YouTube) Lola Young, “From Down Here” (YouTube) Ariana Grande, “Knew Better Part Two” (YouTube) Bleachers, “We Should…

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Sam Fender has called on the music industry to find more fresh voices from working class backgrounds. The North Shields singer-songwriter was the recipient of the Songwriter of the Year prize at the Ivor Novello Awards in London last night (May 21), and was presented the prize by Elton John, who described him as ”one of the greatest lyricists Britain has ever produced”. Elton said that he had been a fan of Fender’s since his debut album ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ in 2019, which he said “blew his mind”, and he explained that since then, Fender has become “a huge friend of my family, he’s part of our family”.…

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Britney Spears exhibited “drastic mood swings,” spoke in a British accent, and offered to make officers lasagna at her nearby home when she was pulled over and arrested for allegedly driving under the influence in California last March, according to arrest records obtained by The New York Times. The singer, 44, admitted she'd consumed one mimosa several hours before her March 4 arrest in Ventura County, but she denied being intoxicated behind the wheel, the arrest report from the California Highway Patrol states. Police say they found unprescribed Adderall and an empty wine glass in Spears' convertible BMW, according to…

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Tulsi Gabbard is stepping down from her position as Director of National Intelligence, citing her husband’s recent bone cancer diagnosis. In a resignation letter obtained by Fox News — the network that helped shape the former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii into a conservative darling — Gabbard wrote that she was “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.” “Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026,” Gabbard wrote. “My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with…

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In hockey, the best advice is to leave everything on the ice. But in the world of hockey romance, the focus is on what happens after the players’ skates — among other things — come off. It’s a winning formula that has just spawned another TV sensation. Released May 13, Off Campus is Prime Video’s entry into the explosively popular genre. Based on the 2015 book The Deal, by romance author Elle Kennedy, the series follows a group of college hockey stars at the fictional Briar University and the women they fall in love with. Off Campus uses the messy…

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is readying a new album. The composer and synthesist will release Ruin: It’s Not Just Music on October 2 through Someone Special, a label she co-founded this year with James Daniel. Below, listen to a title track of sorts, “Ruin,” via a video starring a pole-dancing Pedro Esteveaqui.In a press release, Smith says the record’s heavier drums and breakbeats stemmed from a need “to make something confrontational, almost like sonic combat.” She added, “‘Ruin’ lives in that moment where everything breaks and something else asserts itself. It’s music for the shock and the aftershock. Sound designed for…

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Linda Perry has spoken to NME about the return of 4 Non Blondes, and revealed that '1994' – their first new album in three decades – will be arriving next year. The singer, producer and label owner has penned countless platinum-selling albums and tracks over the years, including Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful', Gwen Stefani's 'What You Waiting For?' and P!nk's 'Get the Party Started', as well as fronting the legendary '90s band 4 Non Blondes. The latter are best-known for their hit single 'What's Up?', which topped the charts after its release in 1993 and has since been covered by Dolly…

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