It had been six years since Francisca Valenzuela put out a new album, and on Friday (Jan. 17), she dropped her anticipated fourth album, La Fortaleza. "What was I doing these last six years? Good question," the Chilean singer-songwriter said in…
New Orleans-based sextet Sweet Crude unveiled the video for their new single, "Déballez" on Friday (Jan. 17), exclusively Billboard. In the clip, the jazzy sextet shines a spotlight on the Big Easy's French immersion schools, performing their latest single for…
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, Eminem barrels back…
In his 2007 review of Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, film critic Nathan Rubin gave birth to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl as we know her today. In describing Kirsten Dunst’s character, Rubin coined the trope of a fictional woman who exists…
Following the surprise drop of Eminem's Music to Be Murdered By LP Friday (Jan. 17), fans were outraged by a reference to the 2017 concert bombing at Ariana Grande's concert in Manchester on the track "Unaccommodating." "But I'm contemplating yelling 'Bombs…
When will James Corden ever learn? It seems like every time he gets all nostalgic for how music used to be, some huge pop star bum-rushes him with The Filharmonic to lay a vocal smackdown on the Late Late Show host.…
When Mac Miller passed away in September 2018 of an accidental drug overdose, his estate remained mum about the possibility of releasing music he'd stashed in the vault. It wasn't until Jan. 8 of this year that a message posted to Mac's IG disclosed…
After taking a summer off from ending the world in order to tour with Hootie & the Blowfish, Barenaked Ladies brings its Last Summer on Earth package back this year for a sixth edition, with Toad the Wet Sprocket and Gin…
With 2 Chainz and Future serving as rap staples on the ATL hip-hop scene, you'd think they'd work together a lot more than they have in the past. Things changed when Hendrix and the Drench God connected on Friday (Jan.…
When the 19-year-old Halsey uploaded “Ghost,” her debut single, to SoundCloud in early 2014, she “had no interest in being a singer.” The whole exercise was supposed to be a lark; it was the first song she’d ever recorded with a…