In an interview with Grazia Magazine, the Haim sisters, Danielle, Este, and Alana, said despite their success, they’ve still experienced sexism in the music industry, including pay discrepancies. At one point, they even fired their agent after discovering they were making 10 times less than a male act at a festival…
XXL’s annual Freshman Class cover dropped on Tuesday, and once you stop beefing over who should have been on the list, stop getting overly nostalgic about the hip-hop artists of yore, stop asking why there’s always only one woman in the freshman class, and stop wondering who the fuck half of these people are (hey, Ski…
Did you know that Bella Thorne’s name is an anagram for “lethal boner”?Because Bella Thorne’s name is an anagram for “lethal boner.”
Happy Prince’s birthday! On what would have been his 60th, Prince’s estate has announced the September 21 release of Piano & A Microphone, a 9-song, 35-minute home recording of Prince noodling around at a piano. Recorded in 1983, the release will feature early takes on future classics like “Purple Rain” and “Strange…
When Rita Ora and her myriad collaborators released “Girls” in May, there was pushback and much debate over whether the song was a queer power anthem or a piece of exploitative trash. The lyrics, largely written by men, were criticized for stereotyping lesbian romance as nothing more than casual, drunk fun among…
LADIES, imagine this: you sign on to Spotify and you’re not quite sure what you want to listen to, so you head over to the “Browse” section and click on “New Music Friday,” to hear what the latest releases are. Maybe you do this every week! And while you might think you’re getting a well-curated, diverse selection of…
The idea of saying “fuck it” to your shit job and taking your rock band on the road sounds like the stuff of teen fantasies and cult ’80s movies, or at the very least a nominally bad idea. But it’s 2018 and all bets are off—and if you have even a small fraction of the talent that friend-of-Jezebel TOMI does, you’re…
Soon it will be summertime (again!), and once again, the Jezebel staff has imbued ourselves with the power to choose which songs will fill the thick, hazy summer air as women trot down blazing sidewalks wearing Fashion Nova shorts while slurping on the finest of popsicles. Each year, we attempt to predict what will be…
Rapper Riff Raff’s Australia and New Zealand tour has been canceled after he was accused of rape in a Facebook post.
This May, Spotify took it upon themselves to enact a new “hateful content and hateful conduct” policy, which removed the music of artists R. Kelly and rapper XXXTentacion from the service’s promoted playlists. The measure was enacted following allegations that Kelly has, for decades, sexually abused underage girls and…
Picture the best and most beautiful summer’s day: A slight breeze, medium humidity, the sun shining on only part of your face as you sit half-in, half-out of the shade. Perhaps there’s a popsicle in your hand, or maybe an iced beverage. A car blows past you on the street, its windows wide open. What song do you hear?
Jazz Zaddy, or you might say Jazzaddy, Jeff Goldblum is ready to take the jazz community by storm.
All I’ve wanted since Cardi B released Invasion of Privacy in April was for an “I Like It” video to drop at the beginning of summer, and mujeres, she DID that. More excitingly, here she is rapping in the same room with my beautiful son Bad Bunny—dressed as usual like a raver from 1998 (BLESS)—and distant cousin we…
After Rita Ora released her song “Girls,” which features Charli XCX, Cardi B, and Bebe Rexha singing about how they wanna kiss other girls after a little wine and weed, the track was immediately criticized for being a “harmful,” stereotypical depiction of lesbian desire. Ora responded to critics by explaining that the…
If you were thinking that Spotify’s new “hate content and hateful conduct policy”—which was faulty to begin with—would stop other alleged abusers’ music from being promoted, think again.
It took decades for Josiah Wise to find his voice. This is figuratively true for most developing adults, but for Wise, who performs music under the name serpentwithfeet, it was also literal. The distinct, shivering vibrato he sings with—so strong it sounds like his larynx is seizing almost every time he opens his…
It’s World Goth Day, and because goth is one of the greatest musical subgenres of the late 20th century, the Jezebel staff is here to honor goth with a playlist of some goth songs that we like.
The estate-approved Whitney Houston documentary, Whitney, premiered on Wednesday at Cannes, and with it came a set of devastating revelations about the late singer’s life.
A new study which looked at 500,000 popular songs over the past three decades found that music is only getting more depressing.
