Long before he was the man who wrote “Despacito” — one of the world’s most ubiquitous and all-time greatest hits — he was Luis Fonsi, the Spanish-language heartthrob with millennial pop charisma. He toured with Britney, recorded with Christina and, with every album, he steadily ascended the mainstream Billboard charts …

Like fellow punk-minded performers Brian Fallon, Jesse Malin and Butch Walker, songwriter Dave Hause has become expert at melding introspective, often edgy, Americana lyricism with the most irresistible of pop-rock hooks. The Philadelphia native, and onetime leader of punk outfit the Loved Ones, further hones his craft on the new …

The past half-decade of country music has often felt like one extended response to Florida Georgia Line’s 2012 hit, “Cruise,” which ushered in the wave of escapist fantasies set to syncopated drum loops that became known as “bro country.” Lately, though, the party’s more or less ended, as country has …

MC Bin Laden joins Mace and Ckrono on a blistering, emphatic new single titled “Vroom Vrau.” Like many tracks in the speedy Brazilian genre known as baile funk, this one is skeletal and kinetic. The melody is minimal, little more than a shivering organ sound. Forward momentum is everything, and …

Ten Democrats have already announced they will be running for president in 2020. A handful of others have announced exploratory committees, or are expected to announce a run in the coming months. It’s anybody’s guess how many names will ultimately appear on the ballots of caucus and primary voters, but …

From a snow-covered rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) launched her campaign for president. “If Prince can do a halftime show in all that rain, I can do this in the snow,” Klobuchar, who wore no hat or gloves, joked to the crowd as flakes fell. “We are …

At the beginning of 2019, 21 Savage was the most popular artist in the country: I Am > I Was, his most recent album, spent two weeks on top of the Billboard 200. Less than a month later, the rapper, whose real name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, is in danger …

Paul Erickson, the GOP operative and longtime boyfriend of criminal Russian national Maria Butina, has been indicted on 11 counts of federal wire fraud and money laundering, for what the U.S. Attorney’s office in South Dakota describes as a two-decade scheme to “defraud” investors and “personally enrich Erickson.” Each count …

Alice in Chains vocalist-guitarist Jerry Cantrell reflects on how his band reunited in a new interview with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich for the latter’s Apple Music/Beats 1 radio show It’s Electric. The episode will air on February 10th at 3 p.m. PT. In an exclusive clip from the show, Cantrell …

Richard E. Grant has seen a few things in his 61 years. He was raised in the then-British colony of Swaziland. He went to school with Mandela’s daughters. He lay silent in the back seat of a car on an African dirt road as his mother screwed a man who …