LOS ANGELES — Hip-hop legend Slick Rick is proving his creative spark is far from fading.

While Jonas Brothers fans await the release of the sibling band's Greetings From Your Hometown studio album on Aug. 8, they can keep their summer cool with a live LP that dropped on Friday (June 13).

AJ Tracey is back with his first album in four years, and this time it's personal. "I've avoided speaking about quite personal things," he says, reflecting on his earlier music. The rapper, real name Ché Wolton Grant, tells 1Xtra's DJ Target he's always preferred to keep his real self separate.

The Recording Academy has revealed the key dates, deadlines and rule amendments for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, taking place on Sun, Feb. 1, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, with nominations set to be announced on Fri, Nov. 7, 2025.

Haim finally released the full tracklist for their upcoming album I Quit on Thursday night (June 12), slowly revealing the 15 song titles in videos on their Instagram stories become compiling the whole thing in a single post (see below).

Cole Swindell will release his newest album later this month and the chart-topping country music star is already starting to think of material for his next project.

Things have never been easy for Metallica's 1996 album Load, a multi-platinum record nobody ever admits to liking, especially the band's most avid fans. In early 1995, Metallica had a ‘good problem': how to follow up The Black Album,

Hoshino broke down the production of his latest project and shared his current mindset after his six-and-a-half-year journey in this new interview.