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Tencent Music buys SM Entertainment stake in K-pop bet
A Tencent Holdings subsidiary is snapping up a nearly 10 per cent stake in SM Entertainment valued at about US$180 million, marking a rare…
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Tyler, the Creator on Delusion, Gatekeeping, and His Latest Collaboration With Converse
The impetus for the new collection came just over a year ago, when Tyler headlined Coachella and created a dossier of printouts from the…
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Smerz Are the Norwegian Duo Making Off-Kilter Pop Music for the Ages
While promoting their debut album, 2021’s Believer, Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt, the duo behind the cult alt-pop duo…
World
Kanye Gave Twitter an Exclusive Hit Single
One of the year’s most talked-about new songs, from one of the planet’s most influential musicians, is not available on Spotify, or Apple…
Beauty
‘It’s About a Purity of Expression’: Grace Wales Bonner on Bringing Her ‘Togetherness’ Music Event to the Guggenheim
This year’s Met Gala doesn’t officially kick off until Monday, but that hasn’t stopped a deluge of events across New York City in the…
Beauty
On Their Exhilarating New Album ‘Pirouette,’ Model/Actriz Take Their Biggest Swing Yet
When executed correctly, a pirouette in ballet is somehow both graceful and powerful, delicate and muscular. So it isn’t hard to…
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Director Jessica Grindstaff Talks Us Through Port(al), Her Innovative, Multimedia Collaboration With the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
While the building—its size and scale, its history, its symbolism and 80-foot ceilings and epiphanies and imperfections—is undoubtedly a…
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“I’ve Always Believed in My Ideas More Than Anything Else”: Bad Bunny on Music, Hollywood, Family, and Going Home Again
Not even five minutes after landing at the airport in San Juan, the fact that Puerto Rico is the land that gave Bad Bunny to the world…
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These New Puritans and Harley Weir on Friendship, Creativity, and Their Bold New Alexander Skarsgård-Fronted Music Video
Jack and George Barnett don’t remember exactly when they first met Harley Weir, but they do remember what they liked about her work. “I…
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Deep (Super)Cut: All the Lorde Singles That Have Invaded My Subconscious Over the Years, Ranked
Everything seems to be coming up Lorde this spring: Two weeks after teasing her new single, “What Was That,” on TikTok, the pop star made…
Culture
Tencent Music in talks to buy Ximalaya for US$2.4 billion
Tencent Music Entertainment Group is in advanced talks to buy Chinese podcasting startup Ximalaya in a US$2.4 billion deal that would…
Style
Jeff Bridges Is Digging It
The interior of Jeff Bridges’s garage, in Santa Barbara, California, has the ramshackle ease of an extravagant dorm room: a tiger-print…
Lifestyle
Why a Shipping Container Is the Perfect Music Stage
If you’re organizing a music festival, you’re likely considering how to deliver an incredible experience while staying efficient and…
Style
Before He Formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Played a Prom in Ohio
Back in 2021, I wrote an essay about the great musicians who, surprisingly, had performed at my high school, in Kansas City, in the…
Fashion
Addison Rae Wore 5 Different Makeup Looks in Her New Music Video—This Blush Was the Throughline
Addison Rae may have started her career as a TikToker, but these days, she's a risk-taking pop star with a penchant for Y2K-inspired…
Beauty
Maybe It’s a Good Thing That We Still Don’t Have R9
Okay, try not to get mad at me, but it’s controversial-opinion time. In honor of Rihanna’s 37th birthday today, I’d like to posit that a…
Business
Three hostages from Israeli music festival among six set for release
The identities of the six hostages who are due to be released by Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Saturday have been announced by the families.…
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With Her Bold New EP, Model Soo Joo Park Is Inventing Her Own Storyline
If Soo Joo Park looks a little familiar, it might be because you’ve seen her on the cover of Vogue Italia. Or walking the runway for…
Style
Bartees Strange’s Interior Hauntings
I consumed the nineties Black horror films of my youth largely through my fingers, spreading them just wide enough, occasionally, to put a…
Lifestyle
Sean Combs Files $100 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against NBCUniversal for ‘Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy’ Documentary
Sean Combs has filed a $100 million lawsuit against NBCUniversal for its Peacock documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.” The fallen…
Beauty
When Did Buying Concert Tickets Turn Into ‘The Hunger Games’?
Then, all at once, I was in. I took a quick glance at the seating map and only a handful of two-seat options (for a friend and me) were…
Lifestyle
Snaps Creates Custom Shirts for Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus
The pearl snap has been a staple of the Western wear industry since the early 1900s. It was embraced by cowboys and ranch hands searching…
Culture
Universal Music, Spotify reach new multiyear distribution deal - The Business Times
UNIVERSAL Music Group and Spotify Technology reached a new multiyear distribution agreement that includes compensation for recorded songs…
Style
Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in…