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Gracie Abrams closed out her Lollapalooza set on Thursday evening with Swedish singer-songwriter Robyn to sing the infectious electro-pop track “Dancing on My Own.”

The pair took the stage together to duet the iconic chorus, “I’m giving it my all/But I’m not the guy you’re taking home/I keep dancing on my own.” The duo performed on the main-stage before Tyler, the Creator, with Abrams blending her The Secret of Us track, “Close To You,” with the cover of Robyn’s 2010 single.

Written with Stockholm producer Patrik Berger,...

Charli Xcx ‘s keeping her Brat Summer party going deep into the fall.

The dance pop artist was the big winner at the 5th Annual Gold Derby Music Awards. Charli claimed Artist of the Year as well as Album of the Year for her critically hailed “Brat.” She also claimed the inaugural award for Best Dance/Edm Artist. But voters spread the wealth across our 27 categories.

More than 1,700 registered Gold Derby users weighed in, honoring the best music released from Sept. 16, 2023 through Aug. 30, 2024 — the same as the Grammy eligibility period. Aside from Charli Xcx’s big wins, Billie Eilish and Finneas scored the Song of the Year (“Birds of a Feather”), Sabrina Carpenter laid claim to Record of the Year (“Espresso”), and Chappell Roan was dubbed Best New Artist. This is widest-ranging winners list in GDMAs history, which up until now has been dominated by Taylor Swift.

Swift swept last year,...

Head over to Gold Derby’s Twitter/X feed on Friday, Dec. 13, at 9 a.m. Pt/12 p.m Et for the announcement of the 5th Annual Gold Derby Music Awards winners. More than 1,700 registered Gold Derby users cast votes across 27 categories to decide who really had the best music achievements during the eligibility period of Sept. 16, 2023 through Aug. 30, 2024 — the same time frame as the Grammys. Will your favorite artist win? And with Grammy voting now underway, will the Recording Academy follow our lead? If you need a refresher on our Gdma nominees, scroll down for the complete list.

Charli Xcx leads with 11 nominations, including Artist, Album (“Brat“), Record (“360”), and Song of the Year (“360”). Following with nine nominations each are Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, and Billie Eilish. Like Charli, each of those artists is nominated across the top four categories of Artist, Album, Record, and Song of the Year. But only Chappell Roan...

The placement of the breakup ballad "So Long, London" as the fifth song on Swift's new album, The Tortured Poets Department, continues Swift's trend of making soul-bearing songs track 5 on her albums. The Eras Tour setlist narrowly avoided this trend by placing the touching and romantic "Lover" as the fifth song Swift performs in the show overall. The very next song after "Lover" on the Eras Tour setlist is her deeply personal song, "The Archer," which is track 5 on the Lover album.

After just barely avoiding it in the Eras Tour setlist, Taylor Swift continues one of the longest-running trends of her career in her new album, The Tortured Poets Department. On April 19, 2024, Taylor Swift released her highly anticipated 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, along with a surprise second installment containing 15 additional songs. Altogether, there are 31 songs in Swift's The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology double album.

Taylor Swift surprisingly unveiled The Anthology version of The Tortured Poets Department, which contains 15 additional songs. The album's lengthy tracklist of 31 songs sets up a potential sequel to Folklore's documentary on Disney+. A Tortured Poets Department film could feature special guests, like Post Malone and Florence Welch.

Anticipation was high for Taylor Swift's eleventh studio album The Tortured Poets Department, but the singer-songwriter managed to exceed expectations with a few surprises, including a double album drop, which indicates that a sequel to Swift's 2020 film is very likely. Prior to the album's release, Swift unveiled its number of tracks and their titles, so, fans were expecting only 16 songs. However, a couple of hours after The Tortured Poets Department was added to streaming platforms, Swift announced that she had written 15 additional songs, which were subsequently added to The Anthology edition of the album and made public.

Swift's eleventh studio album has,...

Taylor Swift accompanied the release of her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, with a surprise second installment containing 15 extra songs. Assuming Taylor Swift incorporates the new album into The Eras Tour set list, some songs from The Tortured Poets Department are better suited to be performed live than others. Songs like "But Daddy I Love Him" and "Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me?" would make for thrilling, captivating performances on The Eras Tour.

If Taylor Swift decides to incorporate her new double album, The Tortured Poets Department, into her shows on The Eras Tour, there are certain songs she must add to the set list. Two hours after Swift's highly anticipated eleventh studio album was released at midnight on April 19, 2024, the songstress dropped a surprise second instalment containing 15 brand-new songs. Combined with the 16 original tracks, there are 31 songs on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology double album.

Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, turned out to be a surprise double album with 15 extra songs. With 31 songs on the full tracklist, Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology is Taylor Swift’s longest album. Some songs fail to leave an impression, like “Guilty as Sin?” and “imgonnagetyouback,” while others stand out from the rest, like “Florida!!!” and “So High School.”

With 31 songs total between the first and surprise second instalment of the double album, some tracks on Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology are better than others. Swift first announced the upcoming release of her eleventh studio album during her Grammys acceptance speech for Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights on February 4, 2024. After an extensive rollout, during which she revealed the 16-song tracklist, released special edition vinyls with individual bonus tracks, and teased lyrics, Ttpd arrived two-and-a-half months later on April 19.

Much to everyone's surprise,...

The Hives have returned with their sixth studio album, The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons. Stream the record below.

Spanning 12 tracks and packing-in an impressive amount of Hives-esque angst, antics, and rock ‘n’ roll prowess, the album proves that just because the popularity of rock has waned in recent years doesn’t mean that one of the genre’s greatest purveyors has lost their touch. In fact, The Hives think there might even be a correlation: “I’m just saying that The Hives don’t release a record for 10 years, [and] rock becomes completely unpopular,” frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist told The New York Times. “Coincidence? We think not.”

Thankfully, The Hives weren’t alone in this endeavor. The making of The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons began like how all of their albums begin: with input from their fictional “mentor and songwriter,” Randy Fitzsimmons. This time, though, Fitzsimmons seems to have helped them from beyond the grave.

Carly Rae Jepsen has announced The Loveliest Time, the follow-up to her 2022 album The Loneliest Time, and just like its predecessor, it features production from an all-star crew that includes Rostam Batmanglij. Continuing her string of companion B-side albums, this one is out July 28th. “Shy Boy,” which was revealed last month, serves as the project’s first single.

Rostam confirmed his involvement earlier this month on Twitter, quoting a clip of Jepsen — who said The Loveliest Time came from her fantasies of life post-covid while locked down during the pandemic — and adding, “the two we did for The Loveliest Time have BPMs — get ready to dance.”

Now, if you want to get technical, all songs have BPMs (or beats per minute). But it’s likely the artist and producer was tipping fans off to songs with a particularly fast Bpm, since he mentioned dancing.

“I got to know loneliness...

When the Hives released their last album, in 2012, the Swedish garage-rockers didn’t plan on waiting 11 years to follow it up. Unfortunate, unforeseen events just kept getting in their way. The trouble started in 2013, when bassist Dr. Matt Destruction left the group due to health problems; continued in 2019, when drummer Chris Dangerous was temporarily sidelined following major stomach surgery; and the capper came in 2020, when the pandemic made it impossible for any of them to travel to America to record.

But the long Hives drought will end Aug. 11 with the...

The Hives have readied The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, their first studio album in over 10 years. The Swedish rockers will drop the LP on August 11th; today, they’ve shared lead single, “Bogus Operandi.” Check it out below.

The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons has just the type of absurd origin story you’d expect from The Hives. In a press release, the band claim that they haven’t heard from the titular character — the elusive “founder, mentor and songwriter” who started the group 30 years ago — since they released their last album, 2012’s Lex Hives. Recently, they found an obituary that led them to Fitzsimmons’ tombstone; only, upon digging, they found not a corpse, but demo tapes and a piece of paper plotting The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons.

Meanwhile, Hives frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist had this to say about the album: “There’s no maturity or anything like that bullshit, because...

The winners of the 13th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards were revealed Sunday night at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.

Anton Monsted won best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million for Elvis, while Lauren Marie Mikus and Bruce Gilbert won the award for a film budgeted $25 million or under for Everything Everywhere All at Once. The latter film also won best song written and/or record for a film for “This Is a Life.” Rob Lowry took home two awards for his work on Cha Cha Real Smooth and Do Revenge.

On the television side, Nora Felder won for best music supervision for a television drama for the fourth season of Stranger Things, while Kier Lehman won in the comedy/musical category for Insecure season five. “Perfect Day” from Better Call Saul season six won best song written and/or recorded for TV.

At the awards ceremony,...

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Elvis lead the nominees for the 2023 Music Supervisors Guild Awards.

Each film earned three nominations in the same categories: best music supervision for film budgeted over 25 million, best song written and/or recorded for a film and best music supervision in a trailer – film.

Artists who contributed to the Black Panther sequel and Elvis movie soundtrack, Rihanna and Doja Cat, were also nominated for awards this year, as were performers and songwriters Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Diana Ross and David Byrne.

High-profile films and TV shows that earned two nominations apiece include A Jazzman’s Blues, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Minions: The Rise of Gru, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Atlanta, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Better Call Saul, Stranger Things, P-Valley and The Afterparty.

The winners in categories spanning film, TV, video games, advertising and trailers will be revealed at an in-person and...

BBC Music has been slowly rolling out clips from Glastonbury 2022 and the latest video to arrive is Diana Ross performing her song “Upside Down” live during the U.K. music festival.

The 1980 hit song, which was song written and produced by Chic members Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, got a rousing showcase during Glastonbury, with members of the festival security getting in on the dance moves.

Ross’ memorable set at Glastonbury in June came shortly after her performance as part of the Platinum Jubilee concert in London celebrating the 70th...

H.E.R. has dropped a lively cover of Sly and the Family Stone’s 1967 track “Dance to the Music.” The single appears on the upcoming soundtrack to Minions: The Rise of Gru.

The song, produced by Jack Antonoff, sees H.E.R. singing the funk tune over a grooving melody led by bass, saxophones, and synths parts.

“Dance to the Music” follows on the heels of “Turn Up the Sunshine,” a collaboration between Tame Impala and Diana Ross for the animated film’s forthcoming soundtrack, out July 1. That track was also produced by Antonoff,...

Rumors of a collaboration between Tame Impala and Diana Ross swirled for months before the Jack Antonoff-produced track was released as the lead single to his soundtrack to Minions: The Rise of Gru and now the video has arrived. “Turn Up the Sunshine” brought the Australian multi-instrumentalist and the pop superstar together in the studio, but the accompanying music video features a host of minions standing in for the pair.

The animated visual pulls from groovy Seventies aesthetics while the famed yellow characters dance around in tracksuits, overalls, and disco gear with hypnotizing flare.