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50 Cent Flips on His Own 'Kanye Warning' to Headline Don Jr.'s Members-Only MAGA Club

50 Cent, who previously warned against mixing music and politics, is set to perform at Trump Jr.'s exclusive club, highlighting a shift in his stance.

International Business Times UK

“Pretty sure that's the SexyBack snare. Timbaland, thank you": Producer Ryan Tedder on the classic Justin Timberlake drum sound he used in Tate McRae's Greedy - and the Omnisphere preset that features throughout

“I used to do these beats all the time because I was signed to Tim for two years,” he explains

MusicRadar

How I used AI to transform myself from a female dance artist to an all-male post-punk band – and what that means for other musicians

When you click on the Spotify profile of Intelligent Band Machine you will see an image of three young men staring moodily back into the camera. Their profile confirms that they are a “British band”, “influenced by the post-punk scene” and trying to capture the spirit of bands like The…

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"You know that feeling you get when somebody embarrasses themselves so badly you feel uncomfortable?" How a grunge legend alienated his entire fanbase with a curveball solo record, and why he had zero regrets about doing so

Not everyone wants to get on board when artists take a creative left turn

Metal Hammer

“He was tired and ready to leave, so he just started hitting anything on the keyboard. I was like: ‘that’s it right there!’ Then I just went in the booth and did the record”: The story of Get Ur Freak On, the bhangra-sampling hit that almost didn’t happen

A lean, mean, speaker-rattling ode to freakdom, Missy Elliott's Get Ur Freak On is one of this century's most progressive pop songs. We explain its enduring influence

MusicRadar

AI can write a hit song, but it can’t lift your soul or break your heart

Why AI artists can't match the best of human creators.

TechRadar

”TaTa is a living, learning, autonomous music artist built with AI. She’s the first artist of a new generation”: Timbaland just created an entirely artificial artist and its debut single is out soon

"I’m not just producing tracks anymore. I’m producing stars from scratch"

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Keri Hilson shares revelation about Beyonce ‘diss track’

In an interview with ‘The Breakfast Club’ podcast, the pop singer opened up about the notorious 2009 song, in which she seemed to take a swipe at one of the biggest artists on the planet

The Independent UK

Three memorable ways the COVID pandemic shaped Black music – five years on

Five years ago, at the start of 2020, I was looking forward to the publication of my book, Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City and eagerly anticipating a long-awaited holiday to Jamaica.

The Conversation

Super Bowl week: Stars and athletes bring buzz into in New Orleans before big game in the Big Easy

The Super Bowl isn’t just a game on Sunday

The Independent UK

“It could just take over and we don’t want that to happen”: It's Macca Vs The Machines as Paul McCartney wades in on AI’s threat to music makers

Despite embracing AI for their last release, it seems the ex-Beatles bassist has since had a change of tune

MusicRadar

Bad girls do it well: MIA’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Mathangi Arulpragasam has been mixing it up for more than 20 years, blending Bollywood and Suicide samples with funk, electro and hip-hop. We select her standout cuts

The Guardian - UK

“He ended up with a fully-fledged, pro studio - it just happened to have an engine and some wheels underneath”: David Gilmour, The Rolling Stones, Timbaland, Depeche Mode and more in nine of the weirdest recording studios ever built

Who needs a boring static building to record in when you can have one on wheels?

MusicRadar

Nelly Furtado: ‘Flames shot out of the speaker when I started making Maneater’

As she releases new album 7, the Canadian pop star answers your questions on going in the studio with Timbaland, songwriting with Chris Martin, and the melancholy magic of fado

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"That extraordinary voice, switching from urgency to desolation within a few bars": The Chris Cornell albums you should definitely listen to

With Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple Of The Dog and solo, Chris Cornell proved to be a vocalist of singular talent. Here we round up his best albums

The Independent UK

Justin Timberlake may be in pop culture exile, but we shouldn’t gloat about his arrest

The one-time pop behemoth is stranded between the success of early superstardom and the arrival of nostalgic, late-in-life reappraisal, writes Adam White. But as he faces a legal crisis and a possible charge for driving while intoxicated, we should try and ease up on the jokes

The Independent UK

R.E.M. reunite at Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony also honoring Timbaland and Steely Dan

A reunion of R

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Justin Timberlake releases new single

Discover Justin Timberlake's new single and video Selfish from his upcoming album Everything I Thought It Was. Get insights into the song and video.

The Independent UK

Feminist artist Cosey Fanni Tutti says Britney Spears was ‘manufactured and abused’

British musician sympathised with the US pop star following the release of her new best-selling memoir, ‘The Woman in Me’

The Guardian - UK

Timbaland apologises after saying Justin Timberlake should ‘muzzle’ Britney Spears over memoir

Music producer caused outrage with language used to describe Spears, who wrote at length about ex-boyfriend Timberlake in The Woman in Me

The Independent UK

Timbaland slammed for saying Justin Timberlake should have put a ‘muzzle’ on Britney Spears

Timbaland collaborated with Timberlake on his 2002 hit, ‘Cry Me a River’

Evening Standard

Don’t go for second best, baby: all Madonna’s albums, ranked on the 35th anniversary of Like a Prayer

After forty years of musical gold from Madge, the question is, which of her records is best?

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