WHATMORE want to be the best band of all time

WHATMORE want to be the best band of all time

Meet the N.Y.C.-based rap collective that’s bridging hip-hop, R&B, and indie rock. Photos courtesy of Whatmore The first thing you should know about WHATMORE is that they’re more of a supergroup than a band. Its five members — Cisco Swank, Yoshi T., Elijah Judah, Jackson August, and Sebastiano — all boast their own niches in…

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A new Spotify lawsuit claims Drake has “billions” of fake streams

A new Spotify lawsuit claims Drake has “billions” of fake streams

Fraudulent streaming that’s become prevalent on the platform is causing “massive harm” to legitimate artists, the new class-action lawsuit claims. Kevin Winter / Getty Images A new class-action lawsuit against Spotify has named Drake as an example of how bot-farming and fake streams have infiltrated the streaming platform causing “massive financial harm to legitimate artists,…

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Here are all the 2026 Grammy nominees

Here are all the 2026 Grammy nominees

This year’s nominations reflect the Recording Academy’s most diverse voting pool yet. Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images The nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards are here. This year, the Recording Academy welcomed 3,800 new voters for this year’s awards, an effort to increase the diversity of the membership pool after facing backlash in recent years….

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Rosalía’s Lux in 5 exceptional songs

Rosalía’s Lux in 5 exceptional songs

Blast “Magnolias” at my funeral. Noah Dillon Rosalía’s fourth studio album, Lux, is here, a pop record that sounds like nothing else released this year. We use that term, too — pop — loosely, as she pulls more from classical music, flamenco, and traditional folk music from Portugal and Italy than any sound or genre…

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1010benja 3X10review: oddball R&B bliss

1010benja 3X10review: oddball R&B bliss

Three new tracks from the perennially underrated singer-songwriter reaffirm his talents. 1010benja. Photo by George Ian Hewitt   Kansas City-based producer-singer-songwriter 1010benja’s new three-track EP follows his 2024 debut album Ten Total, a collision of neo-soul, sugary pop, gospel, drill, and trap that I was wary of at first but warmed up to almost immediately….

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