Wolf Alice to “start recording new album next month,” says label manager

Jason Crabb has signed with Red Street Records, the Christian label launched last year by Rascal Flatts’ bassist Jay DeMarcus, Billboard has learned exclusively.

Kesha is rising above.

The free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements have announced their new album: Who Sent You? is out March 20 via International Anthem/Don Giovanni. Watch the video for their new song “No Más”—shot in Johannesburg, South Africa by Imani Nikyah Dennison—below.

“I never should have written ‘Hip to be Square’ in the third-person,” says Huey Lewis of the News fame. The man who has sold more than 30 million records, spawning such ‘80s classics as “The Heart of Rock and Roll,” “I Want a New Drug,” the Oscar-nominated “The Power of Love” and the song he’s fretting about now, a narrative lynchpin in both the book and film of Brett Easton Ellis/Mary Harron’s “American Psycho.” “People though I was singing about myself.”

New York experimental quartet altopalo have announced their sophomore album. It’s called farawayfromeveryoneyouknow and it arrives April 24 via Samedi. Ahead of the new record, they’ve shared the new single “honey,” as well as a string of North American tour dates. Listen to Altopalo’s new song, which they call “a love song to Lexapro,” and find their tour dates and album art below.

At a recent concert, ScHoolboy Q revealed that he's currently recording a new album and promised fans that he'll drop it this year. “I been working on this album since CrasH Talk came out," Q said, a reference to his 2019 LP.

It won't be long until the follow-up to last year's 'Hollywood's Bleeding'

The Recording Academy's interim CEO and board chair, Harvey Mason Jr., asked for a moment of silence in honor of Kobe Bryant at the 2020 Grammy Awards' Premiere Ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday (Jan. 26).

Myke Towers (real name: Michael Torres) has come a long way since he released his debut studio album El Final del Principio in 2016, a production that solely put his rap skills and underground hip-hop sound on the map.

Lil Wayne is dropping the follow-up to 2018’s Tha Carter V, titled Funeral, next Friday, January 31st. The news was announced with a tweet from Wayne bearing only the record’s date — “1/31” — and a video featuring the record’s logo, title, and a snippet of a new song. The record is available for pre-order on Wayne’s website on vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital; find details here.

Eminem’s new album Music To Be Murdered By caught many fans by surprise with how dark and violent his rhymes are. He even referenced the deadly 2017 bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England in the song “Unaccomodating”, featuring Young M.A. He raps, “But I’m contemplating yelling ‘bombs away’ on the game/Like I’m outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.” Now Slim Shady has put out a message to fans that this album is meant to “shock the conscience.”

Waxahatchee is back. Katie Crutchfield has announced the new album Saint Cloud and she’s also shared the new song “Fire.” Listen below. Saint Cloud arrives on March 27 via Merge.

George Strait’s 2020 is picking up steam. The King of Country Music has revealed several new performance dates, including additional nights as part of his Strait to Vegas concert.

"Those vocals were already there"

Since Mac Miller’s posthumous album, “Circles,” came out Friday, many fans have been convinced they heard Ariana Grande’s voice on the track “I Can See.” The late rapper’s reps responded to queries with a “no comment.” Now, his ex-girlfriend’s vocal cameo has been confirmed — or equivocally confirmed, at least — by the record’s producer, Jon Brion.

She'll also play four UK shows in spring

New Orleans-based sextet Sweet Crude unveiled the video for their new single, "Déballez" on Friday (Jan. 17), exclusively via Billboard.