City Girls recruit Fivio Foreign for new song ‘Top Notch’

A same-sex married couple have filed a class action plea against the City of New York, alleging that its insurance plan for employees was discriminatory as it did not extend IVF or in vitro fertilisation coverage to gay male couples. Corey Briskin (33) and Nicholas Maggipinto (36) claim that the city’s policy covers lesbian and heterosexual couples who are trying to have a child, but not gay male couples, reported The New York Times.Corey Briskin (front) and Nicholas Maggipinto are suing the City of New York over its policy denying IVF coverage to gay couples.The couple said their plans to have children via surrogacy were stopped in the tracks when they found out that they could not avail of City of New York’s insurance coverage. They could not afford the exorbitant costs otherwise.The city’s policy says that to be eligible for IVF coverage a person had to be diagnosed as infertile.

Lykke Li has shared a new song, ‘Highway To Your Heart’, and announced new UK/European tour dates – see the dates and watch the new video below.The new track is the second preview of the singer’s upcoming album ‘EYEYE’, which was announced last month and has been described as an “immersive audiovisual album”.The album, out on May 20 and available to pre-order here, sees Li reunite with longtime collaborator Björn Yttling, their first time working together since her 2014 album ‘I’ll Never Learn’. He had previously worked with Li on her first three albums.‘Highway To Your Heart’ comes complete with its own video by director Theo Lindquist, who worked on the entire visual accompaniment to ‘EYEYE’ – watch it below.After the album’s release, Lykke Li will play six special gigs across the UK and Europe in October, beginning in Stockholm in her native Sweden on October 17.A London gig is set for October 22 at the Barbican, and you can see the full list of dates below.OCTOBER17 – Stockholm, Cirkus19 – Copenhagen, Vega21 – Amsterdam, Royal Theatre Carré22 – London, Barbican24 – Berlin, The Metropol26 – Paris, Le TrianonAccording to a press statement, ‘EYEYE’ was recorded in her bedroom in Los Angeles and is the musician’s “attempt to compress a lifetime of romantic obsession and female fantasy into a hyper sensory landscape”.It added: “There were no click-tracks, no headphones, and no digital instruments.

As Nicki Minaj prepares her upcoming fifth solo studio album, the New York City rapper displayed her fluency with the sound dominating her hometown by releasing "We Go Up," a drill track featuring the subgenre's shepherd, Fivio Foreign. The song came out at the end of August, and today the music video has been revealed.

Ralf Rangnick has admitted signing four new players is "not enough" for Manchester United this summer, as he looks to help oversee the club's rebuild.

On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver turned the heat up on the campaign of Pennsylvania Senate candidate and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz.

imitation of Mayor Eric Adams as a cocky Casanova who was excited for spring, and glad the Brooklyn subway shooter was no longer his problem.“Don’t adjust your television set, I am this handsome, ya understand?” he boasted.“We got him. We got the shooter. Sure it took 30 hours, and the suspect turned himself in, but we got him.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPhoebe Bridgers has dropped “Sidelines,” her first original song since her Grammy-nominated 2020 album “Punisher.” The moody and low-key track is from Hulu’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s low-key blockbuster novel “Conversations With Friends.” According to the announcement, it will be Bridgers’ only new original song of 2022, although she’s released multiple covers and reworked versions of “Punisher” songs over the past few months.Bridgers will be making her first-ever appearance at the Coachella festival this and next weekend, and then will launch a long tour of North America and Europe through the end of August; dates appear below.

Gavin DeGraw has released his new single “Face the River” and it has such a special meaning.

Alfie Templeman has today (April 13) shared a new song – listen to ‘Colour Me Blue’ below.It’s taken from his upcoming debut album, ‘Mellow Moon’, which is set for release on May 27 via Chess Club Records/AWAL. It follows on from, ‘Leaving Today’, which arrived earlier this month, and the previously released cuts ‘Broken’ and ‘3D Feelings’, the latter of which was produced by Will Bloomfield and The Vaccines’ frontman Justin Young.Speaking about the new track, which he co-produced with Kieran Shudall from Circa Waves, Templeman said: “‘Colour Me Blue’ is a love song about that wave rushing through you that you feel when you fall in love”.Templeman is about to wrap up a run of shows across the UK and Europe, with festival slots at Brighton’s Great Escape, London’s Community Festival and Big Feastival still to come this year.He also recently announced that he’ll be embarking on two headline appearances in Australia – his debut tour in the country – on June 14 in Sydney and June 16 in Melbourne.He’ll also be supporting The Wombats on their Australian arena tour that same month.

Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, is canceling all public events for the remainder of the week after an announcement today that he has contracted Covid-19.

Rammstein have shared a second preview of forthcoming album ‘Zeit’ – watch the video for the huge ‘Zick Zack’ below.The band’s new album is set to land on April 29, and was previewed last month with its title track. The new record follows 2019’s ‘Untitled’.After the album’s tracklist was shared last week, ‘Zick Zack’ has been unveiled today (April 7) after a promotional campaign which saw the band create a ‘Zick Zack’ hotline which allowed fans to book appointments at a “beauty clinic” of the same name.The band are also set to open a special pop-up kiosk at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz on Saturday (April 9) from 10am-2pm local time, where they will sell a new 7″ vinyl of ‘Zick Zack’ featuring the single and a remix of the track by Boys Noize.Watch Rammstein’s video for ‘Zick Zack’ below.‘Zeit’ is the eighth studio album from the Berlin band, which is made up of Till Lindemann (vocals), Paul Landers (guitar), Richard Z. Kruspe (guitar), Flake (keyboards), Oliver Riedel (bass) and Christoph Schneider (drums).The new album will be released on multiple formats on April 29, including a standard CD in a digipack with a 20-page booklet, a special edition CD in a six-panel digipack with a 56-page booklet including slipcase, and as a double 180g vinyl LP with a 20-page large-format booklet, as well as in the usual digital formats.A press release reveals that the band spent two years working on the 11 songs on the new album.

Teenage Fanclub have shared a new single, ‘I Left A Light On’, which they say is the first indication that a new album may be on the way.The new song is a slow-burning, piano-led ballad with soaring strings, written by the band’s Norman Blake while they were mixing their latest album, 2021’s ‘Endless Arcade’. It was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, and arrives alongside a video that shows the band performing it there.“As a band we’ve already started thinking about another new album,” comments Blake.

Fivio Foreign has announced his first-ever headlining North American tour in support of B.I.B.L.E, the New York rapper's upcoming album, dropping on April 8. Tickets are on sale right now.

Katy Perry and Thomas Rhett have released their new collab!

Superorganism have dropped a new track called ‘It’s Raining’, featuring Stephen Malkmus – you can listen to it below.The track – which also features UK rapper Dylan Cartlidge – is the latest preview of the London-based pop collective’s forthcoming second album ‘World Wide Pop’, following the Stuart Price-produced ‘Teenager’.Speaking about the glitchy, hip-hop-infused new track in a press release, the band said: “We’ve been enormous fans of Stephen Malkmus forever, and we loved the idea of combining Malkmus and Scott Walker into a strange almost broken-sounding hip hop track.“We’d done a remix for Dylan Cartlidge and absolutely loved his flow; we asked him if he’d like to try a verse and he fit so naturally. With Dylan being from the north of England and Stephen in Portland, the rain theme is all the more fitting for them too.”You can listen to ‘It’s Raining’ below:‘World Wide Pop’ arrives on July 15 via Domino. You can pre-order/pre-save the record from here and see the tracklist below:1. ‘Black Hole Baby’2. ‘World Wide Pop’3. ‘On & On’4. ‘Teenager’ (Feat. CHAI & Pi Ja Ma)5.’ It’s Raining’ (Feat. Stephen Malkmus & Dylan Cartlidge)6. ‘Flying’7. ‘Solar System’ (Feat. CHAI & Boa Constrictors)8. ‘Into The Sun’ (Feat. Gen Hoshino, Stephen Malkmus & Pi Ja Ma)9. ‘Put Down Your Phone’10. ‘crushed.zip’11. ‘Oh Come On’12. ‘Don’t Let The Colony Collapse’13. ‘Everything Falls Apart’Superorganism will showcase ‘World Wide Pop’ on a UK headline tour this autumn, which concludes with a show at Scala in London on September 21.

(CNN)Halle Berry didn't believe she was going to win the best actress Academy Award in 2002 for her performance in "Monster's Ball.""Back in those days, if you didn't win the Globe, you really didn't get the Academy Award," Berry, who lost the Golden Globe to Sissy Spacek that year, recently told the New York Times. "So I'd pretty much resigned myself to believing, 'It's great to be here, but I'm not going to win.'"Now there is disbelief that she is still the only Black woman to win the best actress Oscar."It didn't open the door," Berry said.

Nicki Minaj has teamed up with Fivio Foreign on a new song – listen to ‘We Go Up’ below.After announcing that she was set to retire from music back in 2019, Minaj has returned with a slew of new singles in 2022, including Lil Baby collaborations ‘Do We Have A Problem?’ and ‘Bussin’.Another new track called ‘Blick Blick’ also arrived earlier this year.Listen to the surprise new single ‘We Go Up’, which features a verse from Fivio Foreign, below.Nicki Minaj’s new series of 2022 singles are the rapper’s first new material since her 2021 mixtape, ‘Beam Me Up Scotty’.Last month (February 4) Minaj explained that she would continue to make music for as long as she wants, with her plan to only quit the industry on her own terms and when she feels it is right for her to do so.During an Instagram Live session with Jayda Cheaves to celebrate the release of her first single of the year, the rapper promised to always “keep on putting out music”. “I will never leave the game until I wanna leave it,” she said.

Nicki Minaj has released a new song featuring Brooklyn drill star Fivio Foreign. "We Go Up" sees Minaj leaning into Fivio's world of New York rap with a haunting drill beat crafted by Papi Yerr, Szamz, and Swizzy.

made history in 2002 when she became the first black woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress.However, two decades on, no other African-American lady has scored the prize.The “X-Men” star, 55, looked back on the evening and admitted that she doesn’t think much progress has been made for actresses of color.“Back in those days, if you didn’t win the Globe, you really didn’t get the Academy Award,” Berry told the New York Times recently.She added, “So I’d pretty much resigned myself to believing, ‘It’s great to be here, but I’m not going to win.'”Sissy Spacek won the Golden Globe that year for her turn in the film “In the Bedroom.” Berry received the Academy Award in 2002 for the drama “Monster’s Ball,” a gripping tale of a grieving mother and widow.“It didn’t open the door,” Berry continued. “The fact that there’s no one standing next to me is heartbreaking.”The “Swordfish” star said, “We can’t always judge success or progress by how many awards we have.”“Awards are the icing on the cake — they’re your peers saying you were exceptionally excellent this year,” she told the outlet.