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After BRAT-green billboards began popping up throughout Los Angeles with the official slate of the brat and it’s completely different but also still brat collaborators, Charli XCX has finally bit the bullet on the tracklist. Just four days ahead of its October 11 release, the BRAT remix album is a true family affair, with contributions coming from everyone from Bladee and Billie Eilish to Bon Iver and BB Trickz.Each of BRAT's original 16 tracks gets its own remix, with additional features coming from Ariana Grande, The 1975, Jon Hopkins, Caroline Polachek, A.G. Cook, The Japanese House, Tinashe, Julian Casablancas and SWEAT Tour supporter Shygirl.Previously released remixes "360" with Robyn and Yung Lean, "Talk Talk" with Troye Sivan, "Von Dutch" with Addison Rae, “Girl, So Confusing” with...

During the Paris Fashion Week after-party for Maison Yoshiki Paris, the brand of Japanese artist and designer Yoshiki, the "godfather of streetwear" and fragment design founder Hiroshi Fujiwara made a surprise appearance. The duo announced that they had formed a musical group called Bluebyrds.The first single from the project, “Nothing,” was released that evening. A week later, the namesake debut Bluebyrds EP is out, fusing electronic music with pulsing, ambient sounds.The project marks a return for Fujiwara, who got his start as one of Japan’s first hip-hop DJs in the 1980s. He continues to perform and collaborate with musical artists today."A few years ago, we ran into each other in Paris and talked about making music together again,” Fujiwara said of his collaboration with Yoshiki. “We'...

Taylor Swift has been named the richest female musician by Forbes as the publication has updated her net worth to a whopping $1.6 billion USD.Forbes revealed that her net worth has increased to reflect the massive success of her "Eras Tour" and the value of her music catalog following her billionaire status in October 2023. Swift's earnings include almost $600 million USD from royalties and touring, another $600 million USD from her music catalog and around $125 million USD in real estate.Swift officially overtakes Rihanna's top spot of $1.4 billion USD and is now the second richest musician overall, trailing behind JAY-Z's $2.5 billion USD net worth.Earlier this April, she ranked No. 14 on Forbes' richest celebrity billionaires with $1.1 billion USD.In December 2023, her "Eras Tour" becam...

Never-before-seen photos taken for Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers album is on display at photographer's Renell Medrano's “Lambón” exhibit at WSA.The images showcase outtakes from that photoshoot and unveil the other options Medrano shot before landing on his final album cover. A pair of black-and-white photos see the Lamar family — Whitney Alford, Dot's partner, and their two kids — inside a home, and the rapper can be spotted sporting the diamond "crown of thorns" and even holding on to a shotgun as he stands behind them. Another set of images features Lamar sitting on a couch while holding his youngest son.Eagle-eyed fans spotted a similar photo which showed his father holding on to a shotgun, and a comparable weapon can also been seen on the back of the Mr. Morale al...

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib love to kick it with Clairo. The rap duo – currently relishing in ten years of their acclaimed joint album Piñata on a limited run of Teñata shows – brought out the songstress during New York City's Teñata show and has done it again for their Los Angeles show.At last night's Greek Theatre performance, Gibbs surprised attendees when he introduced Clairo, who took the stage with Charm track "Terrapin" – which she also performed at the Teñata NYC show. Clairo also contributed to "Crime Pays" as well as sporadic background vocals and tambourine accompaniment throughout the entirety of the set.El Michels Affair – who produced the entirety of Clairo's Charm – has opened up for the rap duo throughout the limited run of anniversary shows, which has also seen stops in Bosto...

Channel Tres continues his monumental year with a remix of one of 2024's most memorable tracks. A few months after the release of Head Rush, the producer has put his own spin on Quavo and Lana Del Rey's "Tough," transforming the trap-country cut into a club-ready banger.Tres pumps the track with his hypnotic energy, adding in a four-on-the-floor baseline and layered synths to underlay the chopped and screwed vocals. The remix is the first official remix of "Tough" to drop and also marks Tres' first release since Head Rush. "Tough"'s remix also arrives as Tres closes out his run on KAYTRANADA's TIMELESS Tour, which wraps up later this month. Though Tres isn't settling down quite yet, as the producer just announced he'll be bringing his Head Rush album on a UK/European tour, kicking off in N...

Coldplay has dropped its tenth studio album titled, Moon Music earlier this weekend. The much-anticipated album comes after the band previously announced that their final record is likely to come out in 2025. Speaking to BBC Radio 2's Jo Whiley in 2021, Chris Martin said, ""Our last proper record will come out in 2025 and after that I think we will only tour. Maybe we'll do some collaborative things but the Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes then." He doubled down earlier this week with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, commenting on the importance of ending with 12 albums, "I'll tell you why. It's really important that we have that limit. There’s only 12 and a half Beatles albums. There's about the same Bob Marley, so all of our heroes. And also having that limit means that the quality contr...