Billie Eilish’s new album Hit Me Hard And Soft is nearing its release. She’s not sharing any of the 10 tracks ahead of time, but she has announced a massive tour in support of the album today. Eilish will traverse North America throughout the last quarter of 2024, spend the late winter touring Australia, then hit Europe and the UK next spring and summer....

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, breaking streaming and vinyl sale records. As Billboard reports, the album — which was quickly expanded into a 31-song deluxe edition just hours after its initial release — notched 2.61 million equivalent album units in the US, with traditional album sales making up 1.914...

Knocked Loose performed at Sick New World in Las Vegas yesterday. They gave their recent single “Suffocate” its live debut, and they brought featured guest Poppy along for the ride. “Suffocate” will appear on the band’s new album You Won’t Go To Sleep Before You’re Supposed To, which is out in a couple weeks. Watch video below.

System Of A Down headlined Sick New World, the nu-metal festival that took place yesterday on the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. They trotted out some songs they hadn’t performed in a while, doing “Bubbles” and “CUBErt” for the first time since 2015, “Kill Rock ‘n Roll” for the first time since 2017, and “Innervision” for the first time since 2019. Check...

Vampire Weekend performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, and they broke out two covers they’ve never done before. First they did a bit of Bruce Springsteen’s The River song “Hungry Heart” after an audience member requested a Springsteen song for their birthday. Later on in the set, they covered Bob Dylan’s “When He Returns,”...