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The 2025 Grammys Performers Include Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, Doechii, And More

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Despite the ongoing wildfires across Los Angeles County, this year’s Grammy Awards will proceed as previously scheduled. Today (January 24), performers for the evening were announced.

The first wave of 2025 Grammy performers include Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Raye, Shakira, Teddy Swims, and Benson Boone. As each entertainer sits anxiously inside Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on February 2, they will have the chance to showcase why they secured nominations.

Charli XCX snagged eight nominations, including Album Of The Year (Brat), Record Of The Year (Brat), and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Guess” with Billie Eilish. Eilish has seven nominations to her name, including Album Of The Year (Hit Me Hard And Soft) and Song Of The Year for “Birds Of A Feather.”

Doechii, Carpenter, Roan, Swims, and Boone will go head-to-head in the Best New Artist category. Carpenter and Roan’s friendly competition will continue across the Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, and Song Of The Year categories. Meanwhile, Shakira is eyeing another Grammy win with her nomination for Best Latin Pop Album (Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran). Raye, on the other hand, is looking to take a gramophone home for her contributions to Lucky Daye’s album Algorithm.

You can watch the 2025 Grammy Awards live via CBS on February 2 starting at 8 p.m. ET, or stream the ceremony with a Paramount+ subscription.

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Djo (Joe Keery From ‘Stranger Things’) Is Going On Tour To Support His New Album ‘The Crux’

Ahead of the long-awaited return of Stranger Things, star Joe Keery is releasing a new album under his musical alter-ego Djo.

The Crux, which comes out on April 4, is described as a spotlight for “lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60’s and 70’s pop,” which you can hear in first single “Basic Being Basic.” Keery — who had a TikTok-trending hit last year with “End Of Beginning” — called the track “kind of a shot fired to anyone who’s trying to be of the moment.” He’ll debut the song on The Tonight Show on January 28. But for now, you can hear “Basic Being Basic” above.

Check out the tracklist and artwork for The Crux below. There’s also the dates for Djo’s 2025 tour, dubbed the Back On You World Tour, which goes on sale on Friday, January 31, at 9 a.m. local time with a pre-sale beginning Tuesday, January 28, at 9 a.m. local time.

Djo’s The Crux Album Cover Artwork

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Djo’s The Crux Tracklist

1. “Lonesome Is A State of Mind”
2. “Basic Being Basic”
3. “Link”
4. “Potion”
5. “Delete Ya”
6. “Egg”
7. “Fly”
8. “Charlie’s Garden”
9. “Gap Tooth Smile”
10. “Golden Line”
11. “Back On You”
12. “Crux”

Djo’s 2025 Tour Dates: Back On You World Tour

04/04 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
04/05 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
04/07 — Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
04/08 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
04/10 — Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
04/11 — Indio, CA @ Coachella
04/18 — Indio, CA @ Coachella
04/19 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
04/21 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at the Complex
04/23 — Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
04/25 — Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
04/26 — Saint Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
04/28 — Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
04/29 — Toronto, ON @ History
05/01 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
05/02 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
05/03 — Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
05/05 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
05/06 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
06/01 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia
06/02 — Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy
06/03 — Manchester, UK @ Academy
06/06 — London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
06/10 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Poolen
06/11 — Oslo, Norway @ Sentrum Scene
06/13 — Stockholm, Sweden @ Annexet
06/15 — Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands @ Best Kept Secret Festival
06/16 — Cologne, Germany @ E-Werk
06/17 — Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys
06/18 — Warsaw, Poland @ Progresja
06/20 — Scheebel, Germany @ Hurricane Festival
06/21 — Tuttlingen, Germany @ Southside Festival
06/23 — Paris, France @ ELYSEE MONTMARTRE
06/24 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso

The Crux is out 4/4 via AWAL. Find more information here.

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Petey USA Gets Introspective Over A ‘Model Train Town’ On His Angsty New Single

Petey USA is at the dawn of a new era. He recently changed his performing name from just Petey, and now he has a new song out today (January 24), “Model Train Town.” Petey previously teased the track in November, by sharing a video of himself performing some of it on acoustic guitar, and the full studio version gives the song more of an angsty rock edge.

Petey hasn’t officially announced a new album yet, but one is on the way, per a press release. In an Instagram post from September, he also said he’s “working on a new album now.” Then, in December, he shared some studio videos and wrote, “Currently actively recording a new album with [former Death Cab For Cutie member] Chris Walla and friends. Can’t wait to show you everything soon.”

Check out “Model Train Town” above and find Petey USA’s upcoming tour dates below.

Petey USA’s 2025 Tour Dates

01/31 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem *
02/01 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met *
02/02 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE *
02/04 — New York, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount Theater *
02/07 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
02/09 — Dublin, Ireland @ Whelan’s !
02/10 — Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke’s !
02/12 — London, UK @ Electric Ballroom !
02/13 — Leeds, UK @ Brudeneil Social Club !
02/15 — Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique !
02/17 — Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefährlich !
02/18 — Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega !
02/19 — Berlin, Germany @ FRANNZ Club !
02/21 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso Small Hall !
02/22 — Cologne, Germany @ LUXOR !
02/23 — Paris, France @ Le Bellevilloise !
07/26 — Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summer Stage #
07/27 — LaFayette, NY @ Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards #

* supporting Hippo Campus
! with Liam Benzvi
# supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise

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Kristen Stewart Makes Her Recording Debut In Lord Huron’s New Song ‘Who Laughs Last?’

Love Lies Bleeding star Kristen Stewart has sung in movies before. Here she is singing an acoustic cover in Into The World, and she portrayed Joan Jett in The Runaways. But it took until Lord Huron, one of her favorite bands, reached out for the Oscar-nominated actress to make her recording debut.

Stewart provides the spoken word accompaniment to “Who Laughs Last?,” the band’s first new song in two years.

Lord Huron leader Ben Schneider didn’t know Stewart when he reached out to her, but he had “been a big fan since seeing her work with [Personal Shopper director] Olivier Assayas, which my wife introduced me to.” He added, “I kept hearing her voice when I was writing this song and just thought, ‘what the hell, Ill reach out and see,’ thinking it was a long shot. But she said she was interested so we met up and hit it off talking about books, movies, and music. She immediately got what I was going for and had great ideas to boot.”

Stewart added that she’s always loved Lord Huron, “and immediately sparked to the manic dri of the song and to the mood.” She continued, “I love when a song is something you can kind of seep into and imagine. Ben is the nicest, I was so into reading his words… theres nothing like making new friends through projects like these that just crop up. Lucky stuff.”

You can watch the Tony Wilson-directed video for “Who Laughs Last?” above, and check out the dates for Lord Huron’s 2025 tour below.

Lord Huron’s 2025 Tour Dates

07/18 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park ^
07/19 — Chicago, IL @ Fairgrounds at Salt Shed ^
07/20 — Chicago, IL @ Fairgrounds at Salt Shed ^
07/22 — Minneapolis, MN @ Armory %
07/23 — Milwaukee, WI @ Miller High Life Theatre %
07/25 — Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle %
07/26 — Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle %
07/27 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park %
07/29 — Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion #
07/30 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden #
08/01 — Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavillion at The Mann %
08/03 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway %
08/05 — Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek %
08/07 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE Outdoors) @
08/08 — Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! Outdoor @
08/09 — Rochester Hills, MI @ Meadow Brook Amphitheatre @
09/04 — Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene
09/05 — Stockholm, SE @ Annexet
09/06 — Copenhagen, DK @ Poolen
09/08 — Berlin, DE @ Tempodrom
09/09 — Warsaw, PL @ Stodola
09/10 — Vienna, AT @ Gasometer
09/11 — Zurich, CH @ Halle 622
09/13 — Paris, FR @ L’Olympia
09/14 — Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg – Ronda
09/15 — Cologne, DE @ E-Werk
09/16 — Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
09/18 — Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon
09/19 — London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
09/20 — Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow
09/21 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo Manchester
10/15 — Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley !
10/17 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center !
10/18 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena !
10/19 — Spokane, WA @ Spokane Pavilion !
10/21 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Center !
10/23 — Omaha, NE @ Steelhouse Omaha !
10/24 — St. Louis, MO @ Chaifetz Arena !
10/25 — Independence, MO @ Cable Dahmer Arena !
10/27 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory !
10/29 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall !
10/30 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center $
11/01 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre $
11/02 — Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum $

* with Molly Lewis
^ with Indigo De Souza
% with Lee Fields
# with Waxahatchee
@ with S.G. Goodman
! with Kevin Morby

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Kanye’s Daughter North West Hops On FKA Twigs’ New Album ‘Eusexua’ For A Verse In Japanese

Kanye West of course has quite the music legacy, and now his and Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West is building a career of her own, too. The 11-year-old dropped a song with her dad last year, she performed in a Lion King concert, and now she has a feature on FKA Twigs’ new album Eusexua that’s out today (January 24).

North features on the song and gets a songwriting credit, too. On it, North contributes a verse performed in Japanese, which translates to (via Genius):

“Hello
My name is North-chan
From California to Tokyo
Jesus, the King (Ah-ah)
Praise the Lord (Ah-ah)
Jesus is the one and only true God (You need to know).”

This comes days after Ye recently shared a post about his his daughter in inspiring him, writing on Instagram, “This little girl made me love music again [single tear emoji] She asked me to make beats for her I got back on the ASR Chopped up beats for her album.”

The West/Kardashian squad has been active lately, as Kim recently dropped her first new song in years, a rendition of “Santa Baby.”

Check out “Childlike Things” above.

Eusexua is out now via Young Recordings. Find more information here.

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Indiecast Discusses The Music Of 2015

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Steven and Ian open this week’s episode by discussing recent controversies over Snoop Dogg and Nelly performing at Trump inauguration events. Does anyone actually have the energy to care about this? They also do a quick Sportscast on Ian’s team the Eagles being in the NFC Championship game, and check in on new albums by FKA Twigs and Benjamin Booker that are also on Ian’s fantasy team. Then they dig into the music of 2015 — the highs, the lows, the stuff they remember, the stuff they remember forgetting, and more.

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about the new album from Mogwai while Steven recommends the latest from British guitarist James Blackshaw.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 223 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

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Memphis Rap Legend Project Pat’s 21-Year-Old Son Was Killed In A Shooting

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Project Pat is a Memphis rap legend. He has been a fixture of the city’s hip-hop scene for 25 years and recently saw a resurgence outside the city thanks to high-profile co-signs from younger artists like Drake (who featured him on “Knife Talk” with 21 Savage), Isaiah Rashad, and Denzel Curry. And recently, he received the worst news anyone can: His son Patrick Houston Jr. was shot and killed in the Imogene Heights neighborhood earlier this month, according to FOX13.

The shooting reportedly occurred around 1:00 pm on January 10, with Memphis police saying that Houston died at the scene. No further information has been released as of press time.

Project Pat is the older brother of Three-6-Mafia founding member Juicy J, and has an extensive list of underground hits, with nine studio albums to his name. Pat’s 2000 hit “Chickenhead” is his highest-charting solo single to date, and has been sampled extensively in hip-hop, notably by Schoolboy Q on his Blue Lips song “Thank God 4 Me” and Cardi B on her Invasion Of Privacy standout, “Bickenhead.” In recent years, he has been a motivational speaker, focusing his efforts on his nonprofit organization, the Go Foundation, which organizes prison ministry.

Memphis Police have urged that anyone with information about the shooting call CrimeStoppers at 901-528-2274.

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Tate McRae Gives Herself A High-Fashion Peep Show In Her Seductive ‘Sports Car’ Video

Pop star Tate McRae has displayed an affinity for flirting with racy material in her videos, and in her latest, “Sports Car,” she evokes a 1970s peep show theater — albeit with a high-fashion, less sleazy twist. In the video a shadowy figure (heavily implied to be McRae herself) enters the show booth and drops a coin in the slot, activating the show, which consists of the star dancing seductively in a variety of avant-garde ensembles.

The song, which McRae wrote alongside Julia Michaels, Ryan Tedder, and Grant Boutin, finds the singer purring like the titular vehicle to a potential paramour, inviting him to take a test drive on a different kind of curves. The throbbing, bass-heavy beat is reminiscent of The Pussycat Dolls’ 2005 hit “Buttons,” or Britney Spears’ “Slave 4 U”-era hits, while the title continues the theme of the motorsport-themed video for its predecessor, “2 Hands.”

“Sports Car,” “2 Hands,” and “It’s OK, I’m OK” will all appear on McRae’s third studio album, So Close To What, which is due on February 21 via RCA. She announced the album last November alongside its supporting Miss Possessive Tour, which starts on March 18 in Mexico City and will run through September 26 in Los Angeles.

Watch Tate McRae’s “Sports Car” video up top.

So Close To What
is out 2/21via RCA Records. Find more information here.

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Travis Scott And Tay Keith Break Out The Marching Band With ‘4×4’

Travis Scott is back on top of the world. After his 2023 album, Utopia, proved he could still top charts, and its accompanying tour showed (in dramatic fashion) that enthusiasm for him hadn’t been dampened by his time away from the spotlight, he’s “f*cking amped” about his next album.

Today, he released a new single, “4×4,” after teasing it ahead of its debut at the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. True to the venue of its debut, the Tay Keith-produced beat is awash in marching band brass, over which Travis boasts about his latest acquisition — and the upgrades he’s added. “Four-by-four, I tint my windows up,” he barks on the chorus. Clearly, he doesn’t want anyone to see his next moves until he’s ready.

Those moves include performances at Coachella — which he’s allegedly headlining — and Reading & Leeds Festival, as well as some potential work with the WWE. On the first-ever Monday Night Raw streamed on Netflix, Travis appeared to walk superstar wrestler Jey Uso to the ring from the crowd, upping the energy on Uso’s customary entrance, which draws just about as much energy as one of Scott’s performances on any given night by itself

You can listen to Travis Scott’s “4×4” up top.

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Sexyy Red And Bruno Mars’ Champagne-Filled ‘Fat, Juicy & Wet’ Video Lives Up To Its Raunchy Billing

When the news first broke that Bruno Mars was collaborating with Sexyy Red — his third such out-of-left-field collaboration in the past few months — fans didn’t know what to expect. What they got, though, should be unsurprising: A raunchy, upbeat party rap anthem titled “Fat, Juicy & Wet.” The video finds Sexyy and Bruno flirting and flexing with champagne, soap bubbles, and surprise cameos from Bruno’s other recent collaborators, Lady Gaga and Rosé of Blackpink.

Lyrically, the song takes Sexyy Red right back to the material that first put her on the map: Randy boasts about the quality of her lady parts, interspersed with blush-inducing promises for the romantic rendezvous. Bruno, who is no shrinking violet himself, matches her energy on the chorus, praising that “I don’t even gang bang / p**** so good, make me throw up a set.”

Prior to teaming up with Sexyy Red, Bruno seemingly stepped out of his comfort zone on “Die With A Smile” with Lady Gaga, a country song, and “APT.,” the rock-and-roll departure from K-pop idol Rosé. However, those moves have been fairly effective; “Die With A Smile” topped the Hot 100 to start 2025, while “APT.” has been at the top of the Global chart practically since its release. Will Bruno’s bid for a “strip club anthem” do the same?

Watch Sexyy Red’s “Fat, Juicy & Wet” video featuring Bruno Mars above.