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, Meek Mill and…
For 15 years, the Cadillac Three’s Jaren Johnston, Kelby Ray and Neil Mason have been making music together. The Tennessee natives’ distinct brand of country combines the genre’s vivid storytelling (“Back Home,” “Labels”) with ear-grabbing rock riffs (“The Jam,” “Hard…
Welcome to Emerging Artists Spotlight, the Billboard series where we highlight a musician or band who has recently made their debut on the Emerging Artists chart. Whether they are new to the industry, or have been around for a while but are just starting…
While The Masked Singer is all the rage on TV, a masked singer is helping to keep Static-X alive in the stead of late frontman Wayne Static as his final unreleased performances begin to surface. The masked, anonymous Xer0 surfaced…
Gayle King has been facing heavy criticism following her controversial interview with Lisa Leslie. Gayle King has beenafter , a long time friend of Kobe Bryant. The interview touched on many points but it was the question about Kobe’s rape…
On Friday (Feb. 7), Royce Da 5'9" let go of another fiery single from his 22-track The Allegory album with "Upside Down," which also features assists from Benny The Butcher and Ashley Sorrell. An accompanying Cricket-directed visual to the lyrical tune arrives Billboard…
Meek Mill can’t wait for the arrival of his newborn. At the top of the year, and was heard yelling, “” From there the speculations started pouring in and proved to be correct since Meek had indeed impregnated designer and founder…
Zach Grace of indie band Flor and MisterWives frontwoman Mandy Lee have teamed up for a cover of Coldplay’s “Yellow,” premiering exclusively on Billboard today (Feb. 7). The accompanying visual is a reimagining of the 2000 music video, and features…
Thirty years ago this April, a manic little trio crawled out from the Berkeley, California punk scene to release its debut LP: an emphatic set of three-chord ragers called 39/Smooth that, while exciting, certainly did not portend one of the…
This one is out of Meek Mill’s hands. A rapper’s passing is a tragic affair, and the game still mourns slain West Coast legend . Though he left behind a strong mixtape catalog, Victory Lap served as his lone studio album; his magnum…