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Jon B Performs Medley For VIBE'S V Sessions
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Jon B Performs Medley For VIBE’S V Sessions

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Jon B is still just as cool relaxed as ever. The crooner celebrates 30 years of his debut album with VIBE and a V Sessions medley.

Considering he’s such a consummate professional, it’s not surprising that he shot his performance in one take. From being under Babyface’s guidance to now mentoring rising stars, Jon B remains one of the most prolific and mesmerizing artists of all time.

“They Don’t Know” remained on ice this go ‘round, but “Don’t Talk” kicked things into high gear.

Back in March, Jon released his new album, Waiting On You and spoke on his decision to do so as a veteran artist.

“People often expect new music to sound like the old material but I’ve been living life, gathering inspiration from every high, low, and in-between moment. That’s where the creativity comes from,” he explained in a statement. “It’s about creating music that feels authentic and has depth. It takes time to build something meaningful, and I’ve approached this project with a lot more intention, pouring every bit of my soul into it.”

Find out which soulful records he chose to share with us above.

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Sassy 009 Shares New Single "Enemy": Listen
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Sassy 009 Shares New Single “Enemy”: Listen

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Sassy 009’s forthcoming debut album Dreamer+ is shaping up to be a good one. The Oslo-based producer announced the record with “Butterflies,” which we named one of the Best Songs Of The Week, and she tapped Blood Orange for the following single “Tell Me.” Today’s new single is a dark, clubby banger called “Enemy,” which boasts some sticky melodies, rattling breakbeats, and maximalists synths. Watch Mikaela Kautzky’s video for the track below.

Dreamer+ is out 1/16 on Heaven-Sent/[PIAS] Électronique.

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Massive Attack Promise New Music for 2026
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Massive Attack Promise New Music for 2026

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Massive Attack don’t release new music often, but that could change in 2026. On social media, the band shared, “from next year we will release a cache of work created in the recent past,” adding that “tracks will be available physically and digitally via a new label.” The caveat, of course, is that the music will not be on Spotify, the digital streaming platform from which Massive Attack are trying to pull their catalog. The band has also directed fans to a new WhatsApp channel where there will be “direct announcements on 2026 releases and special performances.”

Massive Attack self-released the Eutopia EP in 2020. It marked their first new music since 2016’s “The Spoils,” “Come Near Me,” and Ritual Spirit EP. The band released its most recent studio album, Heligoland, in 2010. The album, along with the 2016 tracks, all arrived via Virgin.

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The Osbournes hit back at Roger Waters as "a sad, irrelevant, old, miserable, ugly human being”
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The Osbournes hit back at Roger Waters as “a sad, irrelevant, old, miserable, ugly human being”

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Ozzy Osbourne’s family have hit out at Roger Waters branding him “a sad, irrelevant, old, miserable, ugly human being”.

It comes after the Pink Floyd bassist previously spoke out about The Prince Of Darkness’ death shortly after his passing.

“Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him in his whatever state that he was in his whole life, we’ll never know. Although he was all over the TV for hundreds of years, with his idiocy and nonsense. The music, I have no idea. I couldn’t give a fuck,” Waters said at the time.

Waters went on: “I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did. I have no interest in biting the heads of chickens or whatever they do. I couldn’t care less, you know.”

This led to Jack Osbourne hitting out at his comments and defending his late father’s honour.

“Hey Roger Waters, fuck you. How pathetic and out of touch you’ve become. The only way you seem to get attention these days is by vomiting out bullshit in the press. My father always thought you were a c*nt – thanks for proving him right,” he said in response.

Now, Sharon, Jack and Kelly Osbourne have laid into Waters again on the latest episode of The Osbournes Podcast.

Sharon said he was “probably one of the most sick individuals I’ve come across in years,” with Jack responding, “Oh, you talking about my mate Roger?,” before Kelly added: “He’s a fucking c*nt.”

Sharon continued: “He isn’t, ’cause c*nts are good. … He has no charisma. He looks like Frankenstein.”

She went on to say: “The guy is sick in the head. He is not relevant in today’s world. Nobody likes him. It’s not just us. Nobody likes this man. … unless you’re a fascist.”

Sharon added: “I don’t know how those guys in Pink Floyd put up with him as long as they did. … David [Gilmour] is the most gracious, warm person you could ever meet.”

She then summed him up as “a sad, irrelevant, old, miserable human being – a miserable ugly human being.”

Waters has previously denied accusations of antisemitism in his support for Palestine. In 2023, CAA published a documentary of the musician The Dark Side Of Roger Waters. Upon watching it, Waters slammed the film as “a flimsy, unapologetic piece of propaganda”.

The musician has been a longtime supporter of Palestine; most recently, he urged followers on social media not to vote for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in the upcoming US election due to their respective stances on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. He has also hit back at other musicians for their various stances on Israel.

Speaking about Waters’ comments on Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon said: “Do you know why he [Waters] did it? He did it because he knows I’m half-Jewish.”

Waters is yet to respond publicly to any of the Osbournes’ comments.

In the past Sharon has hit out at Kneecap, over their stance on supporting Palestinians describing their “whole attitude” as “one of anger, it’s not of peace”. She also called for a “revocation of Kneecap’s work visa”.

The band in response said: “Statements aren’t aggressive, murdering 20,000 children is though.”

Elsewhere in the podcast, the family revealed that Ozzy was secretly hospitalised just two weeks before his final concert and they shared that both Donald Trump and King Charles reached out to them after learning of the Prince Of Darkness’ death.

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AC/DC Shook Melbourne So Hard Earthquake-Detectors Picked It Up
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AC/DC Shook Melbourne So Hard Earthquake-Detectors Picked It Up

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The band’s Australian ‘Power Up’ tour kickoff registered on a seismograph at a local research center

AC/DC’s first show in their home country in a decade was so powerful the sound waves registered on earthquake detection equipment. The band apparently took their 1980 hit “You Shook Me All Night Long” literally in Melbourne when they kicked off the Australian leg of their Power Up tour.

According to Australia’s ABC News, the Seismology Research Centre in nearby Richmond picked up the vibrations in the 2-5 hertz range and locals also took to social media to discuss the strikingly loud music. The show took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground stadium, a little more than two miles from the Centre, but one resident living over six miles away also told ABC that they heard the concert too.

Still, Adam Pascale, a chief scientist at the Centre, told the publication that seismology is not just about how loud the concert was to the ear. “We’re picking up the ground motion, we’re not picking up the sound from the air. So you’ve got speakers on the ground pumping out vibrations and that gets transmitted through the ground, but also the crowd jumping up and down is feeding energy into the ground.”

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Pascale also said that the enthusiasm of the crowd is really what pushes a concert into earth-shaking territory. “If everyone’s sort of bouncing in unison, it tends to amplify the signal so we can pick it up a little bit better,” he said. “Whereas, if it’s sort of just general crowd motion, like even at the grand final at the MCG, we can still pick that up.” Pascale said AC/DC’s vibrations were no match for Taylor Swift’s in 2024, which emitted the largest signals they’ve registered from a show. 

AC/DC’s aptly named Power Up Tour started in Europe last year, where it sold more than two million tickets for 24 shows before going on to sell out in North America. They kicked off the U.S. leg of the tour in Minneapolis, Minnesota this April. In Melbourne, the band played a favorite from their back-catalogue, “Jailbreak” for the first time since 1991. 

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'Your Worst Can Be Your Best'
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‘Your Worst Can Be Your Best’

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Sometimes the best songs can be the ones you didn’t expect, and that was the case for Quavo when the Migos recorded “Versace” in 2013.

Huncho spoke with WWE legend Rey Mysterio for an episode of GOAT Talk at ComplexCon recently, where he revealed his doubts about releasing “Versace,” which introduced the signature triplet flow from the ATL trio and became their breakout hit.

“I would think like ‘Versace’ would be a crazy thing to drop,” he said. “Cause we were just in the studio saying ‘Versace, Versace’ like anybody else would be like, ‘Man, cut that shit off. What the f–k y’all doing?’”

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Huncho admitted he was wrong: “But that was the record that changed our life, and Drake got on that song. So sometimes your worst can be your best. You just gotta shoot your shot and keep trying.”

Produced by Zaytoven, the trap anthem caught Drake’s ear, and the 6 God co-signed it, pushing “Versace” further into the mainstream. The track was the first Migos entry on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at No. 99.

Billboard named “Versace” as one of the 100 songs that defined the decade of the 2010s. “I knew it was hard already and it was going crazy, but when Drake hopped on it, I was like, ‘Oh snap, now we really got the hottest song in the world,’” Zaytoven told Billboard in 2019. “They definitely changed the industry at that time.”

Take a trip down memory lane and listen to “Versace” again below.


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Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Wonders How Long It's Been Since the Last Great Rock Album
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Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine Wonders How Long It’s Been Since the Last Great Rock Album

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Megadeth mastermind Dave Mustaine is currently making the rounds promoting his band’s forthcoming and final self-titled album, due out January 23rd. Just don’t ask him to hype up anybody else’s recent releases.

In remarks from a new interview with Kerrang!, the pioneering thrash metaller was less than enthusiastic about the state of modern rock and metal music — particularly (what he deems to be) a lack of classic albums that have been made over the past three decades, even by his own band and the other legendary metal act he helped start, Metallica.

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When asked if he’s leaving metal in good hands when Megadeth finally hangs it up, Mustaine took a pessimistic tone.

“How long has it been since you heard an album like Nevermind or Appetite for Destruction or Rust in Peace or Master of Puppets?” he pondered. “You just don’t hear records like that anymore. You get maybe one good song on a record now, and people are so used to skipping tracks. That saddens me, because there are a lot of our songs where, if you listen to them multiple times, you’ll hear there’s a lot more to them.”

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However, Mustaine did add that he feels the upcoming 17th and final album is Megadeth’s best work in decades and a throwback to their formative era.

“We’ve got the best record, I think, that we’ve made in decades,” Mustaine said. “We feel like things did back when it was organic in the beginning, in the days when metal fans used to trade fanzines.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Mustaine said that Megadeth’s farewell tour could last three to five years, meaning that Mustaine will likely wind up the outing around the time he turns 70 years old.

As of now, the band will launch its farewell tour with a Spring 2026 Latin American outing, followed by a European festival run in June, and a month-long stint supporting Iron Maiden’s North American tour beginning in late August. Get tickets here.

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Squeeze Revisit Early Unheard Songs On 'Trixies'
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Squeeze Revisit Early Unheard Songs On ‘Trixies’

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Long before their reign as one of the most erudite bands in rock, Squeeze founding members Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook wrote a bunch of early songs as 1970s teenagers that have never seen the light of day. That will change on March 6, when BMG releases Trixies, the group’s first new album in eight years. The first taste of the music, “Trixies Part One,” is out now.

In 1974, Difford was 19 and Tilbrook 16 as they began writing tracks such as “Don’t Go Out in the Dark,” “You Get the Feeling” and “The Place We Call Mars,” which were set in a fictional club named Trixies. “We fully committed ourselves to songwriting, but this was three or four years before we even got to make our first record,” says Difford. “Long story short, these were songs that we just didn’t have enough musical experience to record properly.”

The “Pulling Mussels From the Shell”/”Tempted” hitmakers revisited the material with its latter-day touring band, including former Roots bassist Owen Biddle, who produced. “The songs that we wrote then astound me. I’m proud of them now, and I’m particularly proud that it was young us that did that. These are very much the same songs that we wrote then,” Tilbrook offers. “The only difference is that now I can teach the songs to the rest of the band. Back then, I didn’t even know what the names of the chords were!”

What’s more, an album of entirely new Squeeze material was tracked alongside Trixies and will be released at some point in the future. To cap the year, Squeeze are touring with Madness in the U.K. through a Dec. 20 show at the O2 Arena in London.

“The act of revisiting the Trixies songs had me in tears, partly because they’re so good, but also because I’m aware of all the stuff that I’ve still yet to hear and write,” Tilbrook says. Adds Difford, “It really fills me with joy that at my age we can discover that we wrote such great songs when we were teenagers. I’m very proud of that.”

Here is the track list for Trixies:

“What More Can I Say”
“You Get the Feeling”
“The Place We Call Mars”
“Hell on Earth”
“The Dancer”
“Good Riddance”
“Don’t Go Out in the Dark”
“Why Don’t You”
“Anything But Me”
“It’s Over”
“The Jaguars”
“Trixies Part One”
“Trixies Part Two”

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'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder Joins 'Last Friday' Writers Room
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‘Boondocks’ Creator Aaron McGruder Joins ‘Last Friday’ Writers Room

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In an exciting turn for fans of the Friday film franchise, legendary cartoonist and writer Aaron McGruder has joined the writers’ room for the long-rumored final installment of the series, tentatively titled Last Friday.

Actor and comedian Mike Epps, who has featured in the franchise’s previous entries, revealed the news during his recent interview with Big Boy.

“I just was with Ice Cube, DJ Pooh, and Aaron McGruder, sitting in the room writing this movie,” Epps said of the addition of McGruder, creator of the cult­-savvy comic strip and subsequent animated series The Boondocks. “We’re writing it right now, and it’s gonna be crazy.”

Aaron McGruder arrives at the ESPYS Awards Pre Party held at the Roosevelt Hotel on July 10, 2007 in Hollywood, California.

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Epps further noted that the occasion was the first time that all of the writers of the film were in a room together to trade ideas about the script. “This is the first time we all got together,” the Indiana native said while providing the latest update regarding Last Friday.

McGruder’s arrival is significant: his groundbreaking work began with The Boondocks comic strip—debuting in the student newspaper of the University of Maryland and later syndicated nationwide—then evolved into a sharp, socially conscious animated series for Adult Swim.

Known for its biting commentary on race, politics, and culture, The Boondocks earned a dedicated and critically appreciative fan base. McGruder’s unique voice and fearless satire have long earned him a reputation for mixing humour with provocative reflection.

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Aaron McGruder during The Academy of Television Foundation’s College Television Awards at The Culver Studios in Culver City, CA, United States.

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At the same time, the Friday series’ lead—Ice Cube—has been waging a protracted battle in the background.

Although the original film premiered in 1995 and spawned sequels Next Friday (2000) and Friday After Next (2002), Cube has repeatedly lamented that he cannot bring the new movie to fruition because the studio currently holding the rights, Warner Bros. (via New Line Cinema), continues to stall.

“I don’t know. Warner Bros is weird right now… They don’t know what they’re doing. We’d love to have it back,” Cube said in a 2022 podcast appearance, adding bluntly: “I ain’t putting sh*t up for it. F**k no. They need to give it to me.”

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Ice Cube visits SiriusXM Studios on July 10, 2023 in New York City.

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He also revealed that two scripts for Last Friday had been submitted and rejected, further fueling speculation that the project was mired in development limbo. Earlier this year, it was confirmed that the film is moving forward under the production of Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema.

With Aaron McGruder now at the table alongside Cube, DJ Pooh and Mike Epps, the new draft for the film appears to be gaining fresh momentum. Epps also took a moment to honour Cube’s legacy.
“Shouts out to Ice Cube, the Don Mega,” the comic said while saluting his longtime co-star.

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Mike Epps attends the screening of Paramount+’s “On The Come Up” at Snoop Dogg’s Compound on September 13, 2022 in Inglewood, California.

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“I always give Ice Cube his props, man, because not only did he walk me in the business, but he walked a lot of young brothers and sisters in the business.”

In short: a landmark cultural creator is stepping into a landmark franchise at a crucial juncture — and if this latest writers’ room has its way, fans of both The Boondocks and Friday might finally get the chapter they’ve awaited.

Watch Mike Epps speak on Aaron McGruder joining the Last Friday writer’s room below.

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Lone Releases New Single “Sickly, Sweetly Summer Movie”

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Matt Cutler returned last month with “Ascension.png,” his first new song as Lone in nearly two years. The British electronic producer is keeping up that momentum today with another new one called “Sickly, Sweetly Summer Movie,” which, respectfully, is an odd title to give a song you’re releasing in mid-November.

“Sickly, Sweetly Summer Movie”‘s enjoyability isn’t too dependent on warm weather, though, because it isn’t really concerned with the earth realm at all. In a message to his Bandcamp customers, Lone describes the song as “a warped lullaby that descends into a nightmare” evoking some “real fever dream vibes.” There are a lot of celestial synths at play, interrupted only by some nondescript vocals — “me, way past my bedtime,” Lone adds — before its final moments get ever-so-subtly darker. Listen below.

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