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Ariana Grande thriving in the face of tragedy shows why the world needed a vulnerable pop star

It must be the most simultaneously amazing and terrible thing to be Ariana Grande right now.

Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, and Chris Stapleton just put out a heavy rock tune and it’s time to accept that genres aren’t a thing anymore

With these names working together, you probably weren’t sure what to expect. But it certainly wasn’t this.

Spotify’s new update annoys subscribers and demonstrates that curated playlists are the future

You’re not the only one who hates the new Spotify update.

The ultimate brilliance of "Old Town Road" is how Lil Nas X has flipped the script on North American cracker culture

Excuse him while he whips it out

New songs from Avicii and Mac Miller this month continue worrying, not to mention ghoulish, trend of repurposing dead artists’ unfinished material

Labels repurposing these artists’ unfinished demos into new tracks—and even full albums—seems disrespectful to the legacy they left behind.

Comments from Glenn Danzig suggest an upcoming Seattle show will be your last chance to see the reunited Misfits

Attention Fiends: the clock is running out on this reunion.

Saweetie joining the superstars at Vancouver’s Breakout Festival signifies a massive shift in the way we view female hip-hop

As Vancouver’s bi-annual hip-hop festival at the PNE prepares to rev up its engines for a third time this weekend, featuring the likes of

Higher Brothers becoming a global rap juggernaut while the world wonders who is minding the store back in China

Bath salts or grey death?

Marilyn Manson crawls back from nothingness

It's one of the more unexpected resurrections in the music world.

Prodigy's Keith Flint might be gone, but his important legacy includes bringing together warring tribes

The late wildman made a good case that rockers and club kids had more in common than they thought

Justin Bieber cops to his past mistakes and regrets in a Vogue celebrity profile that manages to get it right

All is, kind of, forgiven

In a decision leaving more questions than answers, Maroon 5 won't be talking to the press before the Super Bowl

Some lips shouldn't be zipped.

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