Fresh off celebrating his 21st birthday with a surprise mix, Lil Yachty has scheduled a fall trek dubbed the Disrespect Tour. The Lil Boat 2 rapper begins the jaunt on October 24th in Baltimore and heads westward, wrapping up the Disrespect Tour on November 28th in Santa Cruz, California. “Cash …

The oil is hot and bubbling gold, but Tyler Childers is not flinching. It’s dinnertime here at his rental cabin north of Nashville, where he’s holed up for a few nights, and the songwriter is standing in front of an electric stove with one hand in some cornmeal and one …

After stepping into the culinary realm with Martha Stewart on the Emmy-nominated show Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, Snoop Dogg has prepared his first cookbook, From Crook to Crook. Publisher Chronicle Books teases that the title, out in October, will offer “cannabis-free … snacks to satisfy those munchies,” The …

UPDATE:Nicki Minaj clarified Wednesday in a lengthy Instagram post that, contrary to the phrasing of various reports, she didn’t “cancel” her North American tour with Future. The “NickiHndrxx” jaunt was previously scheduled to launch September 21st in Baltimore, Maryland, but the rapper delayed the leg of that tour until May …

After a tumultuous weekend sparring with enemies (both real and perceived) over her the sales numbers for Queen, Nicki Minaj reclaimed her throne in an epic Video Music Awards performance — except no one knew where the stage was. After a long tease that Minaj would be performing from an …

Travis Scott‘s Astroworld held off Nicki Minaj‘s Queen to remain the Number One album on the Billboard 200, with the Houston rapper’s latest selling 205,000 total copies in its second week of release. Of that total, Astroworld accumulated 125,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEAs) thanks to a combined 167.5 million on-demand …

Smokey Robinson remembered his childhood friend and frequent duet partner Aretha Franklin Friday in an interview with CBS This Morning. “She has left us with a musical legacy that kids who have not even been born yet will get a chance to experience,” Robinson said of the Queen of Soul …

It was a small moment that would reverberate for decades. On January 24th, 1967, Aretha Franklin was struggling to record “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You),” her first project for Atlantic after several years recording more conventional material for Columbia. As Franklin would recall, something with …

Bonnie Raitt‘s teenage world was transformed when she heard Franklin’sAretha Franklin‘s 1967 LP INever Loved a Man (the Way I Love You). “I loved everything about her,” Raitt told Rolling Stone in 2003. “I loved the way she looked, I loved the ache in her heart, and her sass.” So …

UPDATE:Aerosmith have added 17 shows to their Las Vegas residency at the Park Theater at Park MGM. The new run of shows will kick off September 1st and run through December 4th. Tickets will go on sale to the general public February 16th at 10 a.m. PT. A pre-sale for …