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When you think of West Coast hip-hop, a few things may come to mind — with Cypress Hill and marijuana high on the list. In Covid quarantine, weed dispensaries were deemed essential businesses by every state with a regulated cannabis system; Cypress Hill, despite not having released any new music …

This sweater song doesn’t come undone. Of all the tracks of Taylor Swift‘s surprise album Folklore, the one sitting at Number One on the Spotify US Top 50 is “Cardigan” — a song where Swift likens herself to, you guessed it, a cardigan. In a music video accompanying the critically …

Months-old music livestreaming program Verzuz — a grassroots rap battle on social media that’s become one of the music industry’s most notable quarantine offerings — is partnering with Apple Music to bring upcoming episodes onto the platform, Apple Music announced on Monday. Starting with Wednesday’s upcoming face-off between Snoop Dogg …

When country trio Lady Antebellum announced a name change in mid-June amid national conversations about racism, it was meant to be a gesture of goodwill. The band had been criticized for romanticizing the pre-war, slavery-ridden American South — so it chopped off the offending word and refashioned itself “Lady A.” …

K-pop‘s world domination seems to get closer by the day. Just months after the folks at Big Hit Entertainment celebrated their star groupBTS‘ chart-topping success with album Map of the Soul: 7 —which became the South Korean icons’ fourth consecutive LP to go Number One in the U.S. — the …

Producer and songwriter Mark Ronson is selling a stake in his extensive catalog to song acquisition investment company Hipgnosis Songs Fund, Hipgnosis announced on Thursday. This continues the increasingly attention-drawing buying spree for Hipgnosis founder and CEO Merck Mercuriadis, who made his career managing the likes of Beyoncé, Elton John …

In the last week, both Live Nation and AEG — the two biggest live-entertainment companies, in that order — announced refund-related procedures for fans in possession of now-unusable concert tickets. Understandably, people have questions. Can I get a refund for my canceled concert? AEG is automatically refunding patrons for canceled …

Colbie Caillat, Waxahatchee, Beach Bunny and Snail Mail are a few of the nearly 300 artists slated to perform in the newly announced UnCancelled Music Festival, a global digital music event that kicked off Thursday. UnCancelled is the most recent — and one of the larger — of the online …

In January, the Atlanta-based hip-hop producer TM88 received an urgent call from the rapper Lil Uzi Vert, who was craving a beat reminiscent of his hit “XO Tour Llif3.” Over the next few days, the two men spent hours on FaceTime perfecting a track together. “He’s like, ‘take that out …

This is the fifth installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read earlier pieces in the series here. From the moment Jacqueline Saturn wakes up — at 4:47 a.m. each day, on …