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A little over two weeks after he announced the impending release of his upcoming album, Wild, Russ has shared the music video for its sensual single, “April 7.” A confessional, passionate love letter to his life partner, “April 7” details the ways in which the former Uproxx cover star shows his affection for her.

“When you with me, leave your wallet at home, when you be callin’ my phone, I still light up,” he raps in the second verse. “Every time I take you shoppin’, I’m blowin’ a couple thousand or more, and the clothes pile up.”

Shortly after revealing the title of Wild, Russ shared a longer post on Twitter (never calling it “X,” get serious), explaining the album’s name. “The title ‘W!ld’ represents my evolved perspective on life’s inherent unpredictability and the transitional phase between resisting life’s challenges and embracing them,” he wrote. “After I got external success, my focus naturally shifted inward, realizing that there was a whole world I hadn’t explored yet. My internal one. At this point of my journey I’m really interested in navigating the ‘wild’ of my internal landscape so that I can engage with my external experiences with a renewed, healthier and more grounded mindset.”

Russ certainly has seen plenty of that ol’ external success, collaborating with rap icon Will Smith, appearing in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, and “finally” being acknowledged by PopCrave in the past year. He’s still just getting started.

Watch Russ’s “April 7” video above.

After releasing their comeback single, “Relationships,” last monht, sister act Haim returns with another new single, “Everybody’s Trying To Figure Me Out.” A midtempo soft-rocker, “Everybody’s Trying To Figure Me Out” unravels a panic attack brought on by the anxiety of being judged from all directions, with the refrain of “you think you’re gonna die, but you’re not gonna die” anchoring the back half of the song.

Ahead of the song’s release, the band posted on Instagram, with Danielle detailing the song’s inspiration. “This next song we will be releasing is my favorite song we’ve written in the last couple years,” she revealed. “Writing it has gotten me through some hard times, and we felt this might be of some use to get our vibes right for this summer! I started writing this after a panic attack I had the night I got home from tour. I was very confused because I was SO SO SO happy about our incredible tour, but something about being alone with myself scared the sh*t out of me.”

“After a lot of reflecting I realized I’ve let a lot of people try and tell me how I should live my life, but I realized in making everyone else happy, I lost myself,” she continued. “I wrote this as a way to believe in myself again and quit being scared to do what I want. I hope this finds anyone who needs it.”

Listen to Haim’s “Everybody’s Trying to Figure Me Out” above.

The Dare returns with an unhinged new track, “LCA,” making some indecent proposals and promising to capture the results on film. “LCA” stands for “lights, camera, action,” the famed phrase of (mostly fictional) directors on film sets, and The Dare’s latest track promises a demented production, indeed. “I wanna make it with you,” he admits. “I wanna f*ck till we’re blue / I wanna live like, ‘What would Amy f*ckin’ Winehouse do?’” Exactly the sort of uninhibited hedonism you’d expect from a guy who recently tried to initiate a stage dive at a full sprint. It didn’t go well.

“LCA” is The Dare’s first single since releasing his 2024 album, What’s Wrong With New York, which featured the single “Perfume.” Since then, he’s released another single, “You’re Invited,” and contributed to Charli XCX’s Billie Eilish collaboration, “Guess.” He also embarked on a sold-out tour to promote the album, and it looks like he’s hit the ground running — literally — to start his 2025 campaign.

Upon its release, The Dare’s rave-rock album generated quite the buzz, and it’s clear there’s a hunger for his unique brand of electroclash and punk-dance cool. With “LCA,” it looks like he’s feeding that hunger for the foreseeable future.

You can listen to The Dare’s “LCA” above.

Despite declaring herself the “most hated female rapper,” Sexyy Red’s star continues to rise with another string of raunchy songs. After teaming up with Bruno Mars for the racy “strip club anthem” “Fat Juicy & Wet,” Big Sexyy drops her latest: “Hoochie Coochie.” It’s an unsurprisingly brusque, brash street anthem, which sees Sexyy compare herself to the competition and determining she’s on top.

If the hate should happen to drive Sexyy out of the rap business, she appears to have a solid fall-back plan: Wrestling. After accepting a hosting gig with WWE for a run of NXT shows last year, Sexyy revealed this year that Shawn Michaels, the wrestling promotion’s Senior Vice President of Talent Development, had offered her a permanent role on the show, which she only turned down because of her musical obligations.

Sexyy compared the two professions favorably, saying, “Rapping and wrestling are pretty much the same. It’s not quite acting, but it’s kind of acting too, right? Because when we go home and take off all our jewels and gold and remove the costumes we wear, we then have to go right back to reality with our families.”

You can listen to Sexyy Red’s new song “Hoochie Coochie” above.

Gelo is swerving, bending corners, and well, ROLLING in 2025. Following the viral success of his breakthrough track “Tweaker,” he performed the song during the NBA’s All-Star Weekend. He proved that he wasn’t a one-hit wonder thanks to his GloRilla collaboration “Can You Please,” but fans were truly intrigued by a new song that he debuted during his debut performance at Rolling Loud California. Now, that song, “Law N Order,” is officially out, and it looks like Gelo is on the move yet again.

Like his prior releases, “Law N Order” evokes a very specific time in rap history — think the heyday of 106 & Park, complete with throwback jerseys, baggy jeans, and matching fitted caps.

After “Tweaker” blew up in NBA locker rooms and arenas, even his staunchest supporters were floored to learn he had been signed to a deal with Def Jam, although some skepticism regarding the deal’s numbers was warranted. ESPN star reporter Shams Charania explained, “LiAngelo Ball has signed a deal with Def Jam and Universal Music Group, a representative from his label Born2Ball Music Group says. Sources said the deal is worth as much as $13 million, with $8 million guaranteed, and gives Ball full ownership of music and his own record label.” It looks like the label is getting its money’s worth with more potential hits like “Law N Order” — and from the looks of things, Gelo’s stock is only going up.

You can listen to “Law N Order” above.

With just under two months until the release of her upcoming ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, Miley Cyrus has shared the dreamy video for its third single, “End Of The World.” In the retro-styled video, Miley continues her recent foray into vintage ’70s aesthetics and sounds, crooning the soft-rock ballad in a green-sequined mini-dress as a drummer keeps time next to her. “Let’s pretend it’s not the end of the world,” she croons on the chorus, which is presented as both a romantic entreaty and an ominous forewarning.

Toward the end of March, Cyrus promised that Something Beautiful would be a “one of a kind pop opera” with “a unique visual experience fueled by fantasy.” She first delivered on the latter with the videos for the first two singles, “Prelude” and the title track. In an interview preceding the announcement of the album, the Tennessee native said the album was “inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall. […] My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture.”

She also described the album as “a concept album that’s an attempt to medicate somewhat of a sick culture through music.”

Watch Miley Cyrus’ “End Of The World” video above.

Something Beautiful is due on 5/30 via Columbia Records. Find more information here.

The recent trio of The Walking Dead spin offs (Dead City, Daryl Dixon, and The Ones Who Live) have favored shorter seasons in the six-episode realm. That tightly-honed structure allows series to focus on main characters without getting bogged down by weighty side stories that plagued the flagship show near the end (most seasons were 16 episodes, but the final weighed in at 24), but of course, there has been plenty of speculation that a Daryl and Rick reunion could happen somewhere down the line.

If that reunion does happen on a currently running spin off, there’s every reason to believe that a larger ensemble could launch a longer spin off, and if that happens, universe architect Scott Gimple will be pleased. The Direct recently interviewed Gimple, who was discussing how movie plans have indeed been removed from the equation, but a “longer” season structure is a new-ish possibility:

“I mean, I would just say different formats… They’re always in our minds and you know, is it a six-hour, is it a two-hour, is it a… my dream would be another 16-hour a year series. We’re talking about that. Feature films… probably less likely. But different ways that we do the show, we have to do it and we will.”

If the current AMC shows retain momentum, there’s little reason that this won’t happen. Until we hear otherwise, however, we can look forward to more Dead City on May 4, 2025 and a third Daryl and Carol helping later this year. As for more of The Ones Who Live? That seems unlikely, but more of the Rick and Michonne characters could happen elsewhere. Can the world handle a sixteen-episode season of walker drama again, though? From what Gimple is suggesting, it’s likely.

This weekend sees the fifth and final Dreamville Festival, curated by J. Cole and the Dreamville team. But Raleigh, North Carolina, won’t go long without any viral moments: the Raleigh News & Observer reports that city officials have announced a four-year deal for a new music festival at Dorothea Dix Park.

“We’re going to be here for years to come,” Dreamville and Live Nation festival producer Sascha Stone Guttfreund told the publication. “This is a multi-year deal, and we’re so excited to be working with the city of Raleigh together on something new and exciting, and to continue to build on this incredible thing that we’ve done over the years.”

No specific details were given about the new festival, other than Raleigh City Manager Marchell Adams-David saying that “we’re going to continue on the same path that’s been successful for us. Our consumers have told us what they like, and we’re going to try to provide that to them for the next four years.”

J. Cole has “his hands all over” the new festival, according to Adams-David. “We’re using the Dreamville label to a certain extent, [so] he will obviously be involved. Whether or not he headlines. That’s probably not going to be an occurrence, but he is a local resident. He is totally committed to this community, and he is totally committed to this festival.”

Dreamville Festival 2025 includes headlining sets from J. Cole, Lil Wayne, 21 Savage, Erykah Badu, Ludacris, and GloRilla, among many others, as well as a plethora of free events. You can find more information here.

At the top of 2025, Blondshell (a.k.a. Sabrina Teitelbaum) announced a new album, If You Asked For A Picture. We’ve gotten a few tastes of it so far, and today (April 3), Teitelbaum has unveiled a new advance single, “23’s A Baby.”

Teitelbaum says of the track, “The song is partially about being in your twenties and feeling like you’re supposed to know everything (your parents even had kids around that age!) yet you’re truly in the weeds trying to figure out who you are. I wanted it to have a bit of a nursery rhyme feel. It’s a heavy subject so it was important to have fun when we made it.”

She also shared a video for the track, which stars a group of DILFS (inspired loosely by the DILFS Of Disneyland Instagram account) just doing dad things with their strollers.

Teitelbaum sings on the song, “You killed me with your bad habits / You killed me when you had it / The hopelessness is always see-through / You know that I still need you / ‘Cause 23’s a baby / Why do you have a baby? / 23’s a baby / Why do you have a baby?”

Teitelbaum previously described the album as “12 songs about searching for love, family and friendship in many right and wrong places.”

Listen to “23’s A Baby” above.

If You Asked For A Picture is out 5/2 via Partisan Records. Find more information here.

It’s been 13 years, but WU LYF have released a new song. “A New Life Is Coming,” a soaring, seemingly standalone track (no word on an album), follows the group’s announcement that they’re going on tour in Europe.

“Something comes from nothing. WU LYF was always better left unspoken, experienced rather than discussed. Words killed it. You just had to feel it,” a statement from the band reads. “Twelve years after the fire burnt out, life had pulled us apart. We all had walked our separate paths trying to escape the shadow cast by the brief spectacle of our youth. Then something broke. Or healed.”

It continues:

“We set up camp in the loft of a friend’s bookshop behind unfamiliar instruments, familiar emotions, and we began to play, tentative at first but with open hearts and minds, seeking new forms unchained from what had been before. Old friends with new scars, trying not to aggravate the wounds of yesterday.

We are all surprised by the big music that still plays itself through us, an unexpected gift after the longest exile, a gleaming fragment of then, magnified by who we are now. Raw and ecstatic, the fire transfigured.

What it will become we do not know.

You do not dig up the seed to see if it grows. You wait. You trust. You know the tree by its fruits. Our hands know what our minds forgot. This is something that was always there, waiting for us to remember. A new life is coming.”

You can listen to “A New Life Is Coming” above.