With his second album, Backward coming on January 30, St. Louis singer Jordan Ward has announced the dates for The Apartment tour supporting it. Starting in February in Vancouver, BC, at Hollywood Theatre, the tour will feature supporting artists Asha…
For at least one weekend every summer, Madrid, Spain is the place to be when the Mad Cool Festival is underway. Next year, the milestone tenth-anniversary edition is going down from July 8 to 11, and today (November 10), the…
With the 68th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony set to take place on February 1, 2026, the Recording Academy announced its nominees for awards today. Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. emphasized that “The Academy’s top priority is to represent the…
The set times for Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2025 have been announced, with one week to go before the festival itself. Tyler The Creator’s long-running festival has been curated to perfection in years past, and now would be the perfect…
Coco Jones doesn’t need much to have a happy holiday as the year comes to a close. Her latest single, the semi-Christmas-themed “Skip My House,” finds the R&B star counting her blessings — and coming to the conclusion that she’s…
The nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards were announced this morning (here’s the full list). Among the most recognized artists is Jack Antonoff, who finds himself all over the list. Antonoff’s nominations this year are as follows: Album Of The…
When Addison Rae released her debut album, Addison, critics and fans were stunned. She’d done the unthinkable: shifted from a social media celebrity miming the lyrics to hit songs to creating her own and becoming a bona fide star. Magazines…
It looks like Lil Baby is ready to get back to work. Today, he released his first new song since the first quarter of 2025, “Try To Love.” Its music video, which was shot in Morocco, finds a contemplative Lil…
Bktherula is one of hip-hop’s most raucous and innovative talents today, so it’s only right that the versatile New Yorker would stop by Sound Check to give our host Jeremy Hecht a diverse array of songs to test out her…
JID and fellow ATLien Anycia star in a ghetto fairy tale in the video for “Sun,” from JID’s new album, God Does Like Ugly. The video opens similarly to The Princess Bride with a woman reading a fairy tale to…