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Erykah Badu and The Alchemist are trying something a little different.

The neo-soul singer and hip-hop producer will premiere their new collaborative album Abi & Alan live exclusively on their upcoming tour before the album hits streaming platforms.

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The “Abi & Alan Luv Is Tour” will give audiences the chance to experience the entire new album performed live by Badu and The Cannabinoids before its official release on August 29th. The tour turns each venue into an exclusive listening party, bringing the album to life using Badu’s signature “digital-analog fusion.”

The “Abi & Alan Luv Is Tour” officially kicks off on August 8th in Seattle, Washington, touching down in cities including Denver, Minneapolis, Miami Beach, and Charlotte before coming to a close in Austin on August 24th.

Last month, the pair unveiled the first song from the new album, “Next to You.” Abi & Alan is Badu’s first album in 15 years,...

Erykah Badu has set a string of 2025 tour dates in celebration of the 25th anniversary of her sophomore album, Mama’s Gun.

Running from October through December, Badu’s “Mama’s Gun ’25: The Return of Automatic Slim Tour” begins on October 3rd in Hollywood, California, and will also make stops in Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn, and Nashville. See her full touring itinerary below.

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Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 1st at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can get early access through a Live Nation pre-sale for select dates (use code Lights) beginning on Wednesday, July 30th at 10:00 a.m. local time.

Mama’s Gun was released in November 2000 as the follow-up to Badu’s breakout 1997 debut album, Baduizm. It was led by her first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, “Bag Lady,” which also received...

As Sudanese-American rapper Bas was prepping the release of Melanchronica, his somber joint album with London duo the Hics, one major hiccup stood in the way. The sample on “Four Walls,” a break-up ballad and the first song the three of them created for the LP eight years ago, kept getting denied.

“That song almost never made it out,” Bas tells Rolling Stone.

The artist who held the keys to clearing the track? Erykah Badu. Bas and the Hics had used “Telephone” from her 2008 album New Amerykah Part One to produce “Four Walls,...

Erykah Badu and producer The Alchemist are teaming up for the “Abi & Alan Tour,” set for August 2025 in support of their upcoming collaborative album of the same name.

The 10-city North American run kicks off on August 8th in Seattle and will also hit cities including Denver, Toronto, and Austin. See the full schedule below.

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An artist pre-sale (use code Abi122) for Erykah Badu and The Alchemist’s tour is ongoing. The general on-sale begins this Friday, June 27th, at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

Described as a “multisensory experience that bridges hip-hop production mastery with neo-soul innovation, the “Abi & Alan Tour” will feature the accompaniment of Badu’s live band, The Cannabinoids.

News of the tour follows the release of “Next to You” last week, which served as a teaser for the new album. The project marks Badu’s first studio LP...

Erykah Badu has returned with her new song “Next to You.” The track serves as a teaser for her upcoming first studio album in 15 years, which is being produced solely by The Alchemist. Stream it below.

As described in a press release, the collaboration came out of Alc “providing the foundation” with his hazy instrumental and Badu then “putting her ‘izm’ on it” with her smooth vocals. “Follow me and we gon’ break the rules,” she sings. “I can’t even fly/ You’re the only one that gets me high.”

In March, Billboard reported that Badu’s currently untitled project was a primary focus in her life. “The album has been taking up most of her time; she says she can’t wait until she’s done,” journalist Damien Scott wrote.

Later this month, Badu and The Alchemist will head out on the road for the first time together...

In music, it’s an open secret that one’s look is as important as their sound, and Sly Stone was a cosmopolitan reflection of time and place who simultaneously transcended eras. The American icon died on Monday at 82, leaving behind a legacy of soaring musical achievements, struggle, and glittery Halston unitards and capes that still make today’s pop stars drool.

Sly and the Family Stone rose to the forefront during the tumultuous late Sixties, amid perilous Civil Rights demonstrations and protests against the Vietnam War, all while “Dance...

Exclusive: Project Runway Canada has rounded out their cast of experts, adding Spencer Badu as a judge and Aurora James as a mentor.

Badu and James will join previously announced host and judge Coco Rocha and fellow judge Jeanne Beker in Bell Media’s Crave reality series competition.

The announcement was made during Bell Media’s Upfront presentation. Badu is a Toronto-based designer known for his genderless streetwear designs. He has won multiple Cafa awards and has had his designs worn by Kendrick Lamar and A$AP Rocky.

James is an author known for her memoir Wildflower. She is also the founder of accessories brand Brother Vellies, vice chair member of the Cfda, and founder of the non-profit Fifteen Percent Pledge, an organization that encourages retailers to pledge at least 15 percent of their shelf space to Black-owned businesses.

Related: Disney Upfront 2025 Photos With Stars Of ‘9-1-1,’ ‘All’s Fair,’ ‘Project Runway,...

André 3000 strapped a piano to his back for his look at the 2025 Met Gala on Monday evening (May 5) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The 49-year-old rapper, singer and songwriter showed up to the annual event with his own musical instrument, and while on his way, he dropped a surprise EP titled 7 Piano Sketches.

“I had a piano in my house, and sometimes I would record ideas, or record myself improvising and making up stuff from scratch,” he told GQ of the songs. “A lot of these little moments or songs, they were just fun pieces that I would email to my son, or I would email them to Erykah [Badu], or to my stepdad or other musicians like Q-Tip or Tyler the Creator. If they look in the history of their phones, they’ll find some of these pieces.”

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Erykah Badu fans have spent the past 15 years waiting for a follow-up to her 2010 LP New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), but it seems like they won’t have to wait much longer. In a new interview with Billboard, Badu revealed that she’s hard at work on a new LP with the Alchemist, a producer who has worked with everyone from Eminem and Earl Sweatshirt to Big Sean and Lil Wayne.

Little is known about the record beyond the Alchemist’s involvement as the sole producer, though...

Erykah Badu hasn’t released a new album since 2010’s New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), but that could all change soon. In a recent Billboard interview, the neo soul pioneer revealed she is working on her first studio album in 15 years.

Adding to the intrigue, it’s being solely produced by The Alchemist, better known for working with hip-hop artists like Freddie Gibbs, Earl Sweatshirt, and Boldy James.

According to journalist Damien Scott, the currently untitled project is a primary focus in Badu’s life. “The album has been taking up most of her time; she says she can’t wait until she’s done,” Scott wrote.

Elsewhere in the interview, Badu explained why it’s been so long between albums. “I tour eight months out of the year for the past 25 years,” she said. “That’s what I do. I am a performance artist. I am not a recording artist.

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk musician best known for his song “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” has died at the age of 84.

“It is with great sadness that the family of legendary vibraphonist, composer and producer Roy Ayers announce his passing which occurred on March 4th, 2025 in New York City after a long illness,” read a post on the musician’s Facebook. “He lived a beautiful 84 years and will be sorely missed. His family ask that you respect their privacy at this time, a celebration of Roy’s life will be forthcoming.”

Ayers, who was born in Los Angeles on September 10th, 1940, released his debut album, West Side Vibes, in 1963, and collaborated with jazz legend Herbie Mann on a number of recordings. After releasing a handful more solo jazz albums in the ’60s, he formed his band Roy Ayers Ubiquity, developing his signature jazz-funk sound.

His signature song “Everybody Loves the...

Jamie xx, known for adding genre-jumping samples to his electronic tracks, announced the release of “F.U.,” a techno-warped single featuring Erykah Badu. Badu offers a handful of expletives in the opening notes, which originates from an ad-libbed performance during a Primavera Sound afterparty in 2019.

Both Jamie xx and Badu were billed to play at the afterparty, when Badu’s music equipment malfunctioned, leading the neo soul artist to give an impromptu a cappella performance. The producer recorded Badu’s voice during the Barcelona-based set, and Badu’s profanity-filled freestyle...

Jamie xx has shared “F.U.,” a new collaborative song with R&b icon Erykah Badu.

The song appears on the deluxe edition of Jamie xx’s 2024 album In Waves, which is out digitally today. Built on a live sample of Erykah Badu, “F.U.” reprises the hybrid dance approach of In Waves by offering a raw, off-the-cuff vocal performance atop a clean, thumping house instrumental.

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The collaboration between the two began when Jamie xx DJ’d a Primavera Sound after-party in Barcelona a few years ago, and Badu joined him onstage: “The decks stopped working and she just freestyled this incredible a capella performance, fully improvised, just her and the mic,” Jamie xx said in a statement. “I managed to record a bit of that, and it became the basis for the track. We connected about it when I was finishing the album and...

When “The Piano Lesson’s” hair designer Andrea Mona Bowman was first told she was tasked to create a wig for singer Erykah Badu, she was elated.

She immediately began designing what would be fitting for the Queen of Soul’s cameo as Lucille, the rousing bandleader at a jazz club, in Malcolm Washington’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

“I was so excited because she’s an icon to me,” Bowman, the head of the hair department, tells Variety. “I just love everything about her style.”

But there was a slight problem.

Due to Badu’s touring schedule, she was available for only one day to shoot.

There would be no time for a prior hair fitting, which meant Bowman had to have several wigs ready in hopes that one would work.

“I had to prepare all these wigs but, by her having a red-yellow undertone,...

For Malcolm Washington, an appreciation for August Wilson plays runs in the family. Several years ago, his father Denzel committed to producing film adaptations of Wilson’s Century Cycle plays — a collection of 10 works, each covering one decade of the Black experience in 20th-century America. Denzel started with the Oscar-nominated Fences, which he also directed and starred in, and followed that with Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which won Chadwick Boseman a posthumous Best Actor Oscar nomination. In 2022, Malcolm’s brother, the actor John David Washington, starred in a Broadway revival of The Piano Lesson.

Get ready to mark your calendars, because one of the most anticipated films of the year, The Piano Lesson, is tuning up for its Netflix debut this November!

Adapted from August Wilson's celebrated play, The Piano Lesson not only brings a powerful story to the screen but also marks the directorial debut of Malcolm Washington. The film will first hit select theaters on November 8, 2024, before making its way to the streaming giant.

Set against the backdrop of 1936 Pittsburgh, The Piano Lesson dives deep into the heart of the Charles family and their most prized possession: an intricately carved piano that echoes their heritage, struggles, and dreams.

The story follows their emotional journey as they wrestle with a life-changing decision -- whether to sell the piano to reclaim their ancestral land or hold onto it as a symbol of their past. As Netflix's official logline teases:

A family clash over an heirloom piano explodes.

When OutKast dropped “Ms. Jackson” in the fall of 2000, the world was stunned. Nobody had ever heard a hip-hop song that sounded anything like this. But there’s never been anybody like OutKast before. The Atlanta duo, made up of Andre 3000 and Big Boi, brought their innovative hip-hop style to the pop charts with “Ms. Jackson,” from their album Stankonia. “Ms. Jackson” blew up into their first Number One hit, and it’s gone down in history as one of the group’s definitive classics. It comes in at...

Ice Spice has noted in several interviews that she was a popular girl in high school, well before she started releasing music. One story she told Erykah Badu and her daughter, Puma Curry, for Interview functions pretty well as an analogy for her debut album, Y2K. Ice, born Isis Gaston, attended a catholic school in Yonkers, a suburb north of her Bronx neighborhood. “There were so many white girls, and I was the only one with curly hair for a long time,” she said, explaining that she constantly straightened...

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“My name is Erykah Badu and I’m a cold motherfucker.”

It’s 6:30 am on the rooftop of Desa Potato Head and a crowd of yogis, writers, singers, dancers, reiki healers, crystal experts, and at least two corporate lawyers sit cross-legged on plush yoga mats. Locals and tourists have gathered here for Merasa, a 7-day wellness festival co-curated by Grammy-Award winning singer, songwriter, and doula Erykah Badu.

Over the weekend, LLA3C returned for its second year, with an updated focus on the best of LA’s music, food, and film scenes. The festival unfolded in Dtla’s Historic Core from Friday, November 10, to Sunday, November 12, across four iconic venues: Theatre at the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles Theatre, Orpheum Theatre, and Palace Theatre, as well as various adjacent lots. LA3C brought together a wide range of artists, tastemakers, performers, and vendors to celebrate the uniqueness of LA.

Flying Lotus, the Friday headliner, kicked off the festival at the Ace Hotel with his distinctive visual projections, offering the audience a mesmerizing multisensory experience. A native of Los Angeles, he seamlessly blended elements of electronic, jazz, hip-hop, and experimental music with his unique sound that is defined by intricate beats, ethereal melodies, and unconventional song structures.

Erykah Badu, the Saturday headliner at the Orpheum, captivated the audience with her experimental visuals and influential,...

After an inaugural year that featured performances from stars like Lil Baby, Snoop Dogg, Seventeen and Maluma in 2022, Los Angeles festival LA3C is significantly overhauling its sophomore edition this weekend, switching locales from a traditional festival ground at LA State Historic Park to a combo of four venues in the middle of downtown LA: The Theatre at Ace Hotel, the Orpheum Theatre, The Palace Theatre and the Los Angeles Theatre.

The festival was founded to celebrate Los Angeles as the “capital of creativity and culture” — hence the three c...

Erykah Badu and Herbie Hancock lead a lineup largely stacked with soul, R&b, jazz, and hip-hop talent that’ll appear at the 2023 LA3C festival.

Along with Badu and Hancock, the lineup features Kamasi Washington, Flying Lotus, Terrace Martin, Sudan Archives, Lonnie Holley, Aja Monet, Shabazz Palaces, Kilo Kish, Marc Rebillet, Fred Armisen, Pauli the Psm, and more. A full lineup is available on the LA3C website.

LA3C is owned and promoted by Rolling Stone’s parent company, Penske Media Corporation. It will take place Nov. 10 through...

LA3C, the Los Angeles music and food festival that launched last year, will return in November for a second edition that includes headliners Erykah Badu, Herbie Hancock and Oscar winner Questlove.

The three-day festival focusing on the best of L.A.’s music, food and film scenes, will take place November 10-12 in the downtown historic core across four venues: the Theatre at the Ace Hotel, the Los Angeles Theatre, the Orpheum Theatre and the Palace Theatre.

Badu will play at the Orpheum, while Hancock will jam at the Ace. They top a music lineup that includes Flying Lotus, Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin, Nick Hakim, Julie Byrne and John Carroll Kirby.

Additional performers include Kamasi Washington, Marc Rebillet, Sudan Archives, Fred Armisen, Lonnie Holley, Aja Monet, Pauli the Psm, Novena Carmel, Shabazz Palaces, Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Josh Craig, Acyde, Siobhan Bell, Kilo Kish, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Def Rain and Feels Like Floating.

Los Angeles, Aug 15 (Ians) Tina Knowles shut down rumours that her daughter Beyonce travels with personal toilet seats while on tour.

“That is so ridiculous,” the mom of two told TMZ, reports pagesix.com.

Tina explained that the leaked backstage picture of a black container labeled “Beyonce Toilet Seats” was merely a part of the singer’s Renaissance World Tour set.

“Those are stands that you put fans on, they’re called toilet seats,” she said.

Tina, 69, added that the idea of her daughter requesting her own custom toilet seat for the bathroom was “too much”.

The rumours about Beyonce’s tour rider started earlier this month when a source told the US Sun that the “Cuff It” hitmaker can get anything she wants.

“Beyonce is such an elite performer she can literally request anything,” the insider claimed.

“Her team makes great effort to ensure she has her own comforts...

Not even Mother Nature herself can keep Beyoncé from entertaining her fans.

Concertgoers who showed up early and ready for Sunday’s stop on the “Renaissance World Tour” at FedEx Field in North Englewood, Maryland — adjacent to Washington, D.C., — were met with some frightening weather conditions.

A shelter-in-place warning was issued at around 6:30 p.m. Et, and the news was posted to Twitter by FedEx Field’s official account, telling fans how to proceed.

“Due to lightning in the area, we are currently under a shelter in place order,” the message read. “Fans outside of gates and in the parking lots are asked to return to their cars. All fans inside of the stadium are asked to shelter in place under covered concourse areas and ramps until further notice. Thank you for your patience.”

Approximately 50,000 concertgoers were forced to huddle together under cover as the storm raged overhead...

Beyoncé appeared to drop Lizzo’s name from her “Break My Soul” remix while performing the song at the Boston stop of her “Renaissance World Tour” (get tickets here) on Tuesday night. The lyric change took place just hours after news broke that Lizzo has been sued by her former backup dancers for sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.

On the third verse of Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)” featuring Madonna, she name-drops Lizzo alongside other queens in the music industry like Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, and Janet Jackson. During her performance of the song at Gillette Stadium, she repeated Erykah Badu’s name four times, replacing both Lizzo and former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland.

Lizzo and Kelly Rowland’s names were still displayed on the screen behind the stage. See the fan-shot footage below.

In their lawsuit, three women who used to...

Erykah Badu is dropping some severe shade in Beyoncé’s direction.

The neo-soul icon, 52, shot some shade at Queen Bey, 41, in her Instagram Story last weekend regarding a photo of Beyoncé performing in an oversized, metallic hat at her show in New Jersey.

“I guess I’m everyone’s stylist. favorite chrome mirror hat,” said Badu, as she added a side-by-side comparison shot of herself performing in a very similar oversized, metallic hat at a separate show during an unspecified date.

Read More: Clip Of Beyoncé Calling Out Stage Crew Goes Viral: ‘Turn The Fan On’

#ErykahBadu seemingly called out #Beyonce for being a copycat pic.twitter.com/wxJYPhVFT4

— theJasmineBRAND (@thejasminebrand) July 31, 2023

The shade feels even more strange, considering Bey gave Badu a friendly shout-out on her track “Break My Soul” last year, along with nods to Lauryn Hill, Roberta Flack, Kelly Rowland, and Lizzo.

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Beyoncé’s back-to-back nights at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, this past weekend were two of the most star-studded shows of the Renaissance tour thus far. Greta Gerwig and America Ferrera watched the show from risers, while singer and songwriter Kehlani was close enough to the stage to snap a selfie with Beyoncé. Laverne Cox attended both nights and penned a heartfelt, revelatory caption about how the concert made her feel born again. Also in the audience was Madonna, who received a shoutout from one queen to another.

Erykah Badu re-wrote and re-recorded her hit song “Tyrone” for Netflix’s new movie “They Cloned Tyrone,” per a request from the film’s director Juel Taylor.

“Everybody I’ve ever talked to, as soon as I told them the [movie’s] title, they were like, ‘So Erykah Badu doing the song?’ and I’m like, ‘Trust me, I’m trying.’” Taylor said, describing the early stages of developing “They Cloned Tyrone,” which is his feature film directorial debut and stars Teyonah Parris, John Boyega and Jamie Foxx. At the time, he hoped he would be able to include a reimagined version of the Grammy-winner’s song.

“You don’t really think it’s going to happen,” Taylor said. “Serendipitously enough, I was able to pitch it to her, and she responded immediately. Thank God for Erykah Badu.”

Getting Badu to sign on for the job was done with the help of...

Four-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Erykah Badu (What Men Want) has been set to make a cameo appearance with musical performances in Netflix‘s film The Piano Lesson, based on the play by August Wilson.

Leading the pic, as previously announced, are John David Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, who starred in a Broadway revival of the play at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, which has just recently landed Tony noms for Best Revival of a Play and Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Jackson).

Part of Wilson’s famed 10-play “American Century Cycle,” also encompassing such titles as Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson is set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression. The film centers on the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor.

Denzel Curry is the latest artist to participate in Spotify’s Live at Electric Lady series. The rapper visited the eponymous studio to record a seven-song set comprising tracks from his recent album Melt My Eyez See Your Future, throwing in a cover of the 2000 Erykah Badu song “Didn’t Cha Know.”

It’s not often we hear Curry sing, but his vocals do “Didn’t Cha Know” justice, and the cover even features a guest appearance from a Badu collaborator, the R&b singer Bilal. The EP’s opening track is another cover, this one a rendition of Shogun’s “Lonely Man” (from the Japanese TV series Detective Story).

Elsewhere on the EP is a previously-unreleased track called “Endtroduction” that layers Curry’s distinctive, playfully-aggressive flow over a bold jazzy instrumental. The final four tracks are cuts from Melt My Eyez See Your Future: “Walkin’,” “Troubles,” “Angels,” and “X-Wing.

Erykah Badu has a reminder for those who may have forgotten the true meaning of the word “woke.” In a recent interview with MSNBC, the artist discussed her thoughts on right-wing politicians who’ve turned the term into a pejorative, saying: “I think they mean ‘Black.'”

Although the origin of the phrase “stay woke” is widely credited to William Melvin Kelley’s 1962 essay If You’re Woke You Dig It, Badu played a huge role in bringing it to the mainstream with her 2008 track “Master Teacher.” Her use of the phrase on social media also contributed to its explosion in popularity: “I tweeted it about this group that was detained, Pussy Riot,” she explained to MSNBC’s Ari Melber, referring to the Russian protest art collective. “I said ‘free Pussy Riot’… After that, ‘woke’ took off.”

Melber then proceeded to show Badu a series of clips in which “stay woke” is used,...

It’s been a mere five months since Ice Spice went viral with “Munch (Feeling U),” a coldly efficient putdown of the opposite sex that earned her a million-dollar deal with the label 10K Projects. The Bronx rapper has generated headlines from gossip folks ever since. She was feted by Drake…or is that dissed by him on “BackOutsideBoyz”? She shook her goodies on TikTok in celebration of her 23rd birthday. She inspired a lame “Ice Spice” homage by Memphis rapper Nle Choppa, the cost of doing business in an...

Cody Jinks didn’t mention Austin by name in his 2010 song “Hippies and Cowboys,” but it’s easy to read one particular lyric as a subtle shot at the city and its evolution from outlaws and artists haven to a home for industry insiders and tech bros.

“I never been a part of any musical scenes,” Jinks, who is from just north of Fort Worth, sang. “I ain’t just talking Nashville/if you know what I mean.”

In the years since, as Austin’s cost of living has only increased,...

Beyoncé and Madonna have teamed up for a royal collaboration, “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix).” The latest remix of Beyoncé’s Renaissance single arrived on Friday, just in time to get the weekend party started.

The percolating remix interpolates Madonna’s “Vogue” with Beyoncé flipping the script for the iconic spoke-sung section of the 1990 song, where the Material Girl lists Hollywood stars from the Golden Age. In Bey’s take, she pays homage to both current and past influential Black women who have been game-changers for the culture — from Aaliyah,...

Exclusive: Dave Caplan’s directorial debut is a love letter and inspirational hip hop archive about The Doc, a master of the art who is more than likely your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper.

The film chronicles the life of the lyricist and producer who wrote for N.W.A and Dr. Dre, co-founded Death Row Records, mentored Snoop Dogg and left his mark on hip hop culture forever. Thirty years after a devastating car crash that took his voice, The Doc is still struggling with his legacy as a rapper with the greatest cadence before West Coast rap exploded in popularity and he considers surgery that might be able to restore his vocals. The Doc explores this risky decision alongside a cast of celebrities who reflect on his impact in their lives and in the world from music to love to civil rights crusading.

“I am excited to announce...

On a quiet side street in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood — a few short blocks from the Barclays Center, and right above a natural-hair salon — is the low-rise red-brick building where Erykah Badu has lived on and off since the mid-Nineties. Walk up to the second floor and follow the vintage funk beats down a narrow carpeted corridor, and you’ll find her place: a cozy two-bedroom artist’s pad that radiates warmth and soul. “You can sit over there,” says the singer, gesturing at a futon in one corner...

Underground rapper Jay Electronica signed with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label, it was announced at an event in New York Friday night. Shortly after, Diddy tweeted “Damn it hurts in a whole other way when someone you felt and I mean really felt was your Friend, Betrays you. It hurts when Breathe” — which many, including Electronica, interpreted as a reaction to the signing. But Diddy later tweeted that he’s happy for the rapper and wasn’t referring to him or Jay-Z in the tweet.

At the event on Friday night,...

Moments after a reunited Soundgarden closed out Lollapalooza, the grunge band's native Seattle radio station The End debuted the previously unreleased track "Black Rain." The song, an outtake from the 1991Badmotorfinger sessions, will appear on the group's upcoming collection Telephantasm and in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock . [The End 107.7]

Weezer premiered their first single, "Memories," from their upcoming album Hurley this weekend on Los Angeles' Kysr 98.7 FM. The nostalgic burst of power pop features lyrics like "Playin' hacky sack back when Audioslave were still Rage." Hurley hits stores September 14th...