Talk about having a punk attitude. The Exploited aren’t going to let the coronavirus pandemic curtail their 40th anniversary tour. “F–k coronavirus! I have had five heart attacks, a quad heart bypass and a heart pacemaker fitted,” frontman Wattie Buchan…
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, Niall Horan sends…
When singer-songwriter Alma-Sofia Miettinen was 16, she placed fifth in a 2013 season of the Finnish show Idols. She returned to school afterward, putting her musical ambitions on hold. A year later, though, one of the show’s judges, rapper Sini Sabotage,…
“When I walked back through campus, all I saw were all my CDs I made thrown all over the ground,” says Derrick Milano. Fresh off a flight from Toronto, he sits comfortably on a couch at Billboard’s New York office,…
The Air Jordan 5 “Alternate Grape” is a dope take on an established classic. One of the best sneakers of the 1990s was the 5 “Grape.” This shoe was a pop culture phenomenon and was mostly seen on the feet…
Lupe Fiasco takes to Twitter to address the ongoing Coronavirus crisis and panic, offering advice and updates on his own career. With the Coronavirus sending the world into a state of barely restrained panic and uncertainty, many have felt lost…
“A Written Testimony” was a decade in the making. Just when the hip-hop community was ready to close the chapter on Jay Electronica’s rap career, the Roc Nation wordsmith hushed his naysayers on Friday (Mar. 13) when he finally unleashed…
The trek was slated to kick off on March 26 in El Paso, Texas. The highly anticipated Rage Against the Machine Public Service Announcement reunion tour has been postponed due to fears over the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. The outing, which was…
Nicki Minaj’s husband Kenneth Petty is awaiting trial after failing to register as a sex offender, but he’s learned that he is able to use his cell phone and the internet until then. ‘s husband Kenneth Petty, a convicted rapist,…
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…