Tori Kelly made her debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with an efficiency of her new song, "Sorry Would Go A Long Way" that radiated with softness and sincerity. She had just one guitarist with her, allowing her to perform the slow number gently. The efficiency was just four minutes long, nevertheless it felt like at least a hour of heartfelt melodies and delicate vocals tha..

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By Emma Madden Shura’s in love. The English language singer wrote an album about it, she moved to another nation because of it, and right now she’s very, quite happy to talk about it. While Interviewing 101 says to save the gossipy, “How’s your dating life?” Questions up until the end, Shura brings up her girlfriend almost immediately, without prompting. Case in point, she ..

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Immediately after throwing it back to '80s-era Miami Beach for "Cool," Jonas Brothers are keeping the throwback vibes rolling right along for "Only Human." The bros' latest single from their comeback album Happiness Begins is an insistently groovy bop, and its new video kicks the vintage swagger up a couple of notches. It opens in a club packed with passionate fans who bust out their..

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5 Seconds Of Summer have released a new version of their breezy summer jam "Easier," and this one features Charlie Puth who brings the same sort of bubbling disbelief that permeates his hit 2017 song, "How Long." The result is that this version of "Easier" is even more heartbreaking than before, as it tests what Puth believes to be the limits of his partner's fidelity. Although, his..

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In the wake of recent mass shootings, Lady Gaga will be working to make sure that children in the cities of Dayton, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; and Gilroy, California, will get funding for classroom assignments by means of the a partnership with nonprofit company DonorsChoose. She reported the news on Facebook on August 9 that she wanted to turn these recent tragedies into hope for a bright..

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Cherry Pits, your wait is over. Since debuting earlier this year with the sleek, '80s-inspired mini-anthem "Win" and the more contemplative ballad "What Do You Like in Me," Nasty Cherry have been hard at work. The hybrid British-American musical group started immediately after some behind-the-scenes matchmaking by Charli XCX (who co-wrote "Win" and co-directed the video) and their mu..

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Katy Perry's new single "Small Talk" is here, and from the sound of it, KP5 might be shaping up to be a breakup album for the ages. The pop star kicked off her fifth album era in May with the heartbreak anthem "Never Really Over," and "Small Talk" follows in the same vein, as Perry describes that universal awkwardness of interacting with an ex. "Isn’t it weird / That you've seen me..

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Ed Sheeran has been particularly generous with music videos in his No. 6 Collaborations Project era, and he returned with another one on Thursday (August 8). This time, it's "Nothing On You" — featuring London rapper Dave and Argentinian reggaeton star Paulo Londra — that's gotten the visual treatment, and it also appears Sheeran has been binging Stranger Things lately. How else..

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Bon Iver's new 13-track album i,i will be out on August 30. Soon after drip-feeding three tracks ahead of its release, the order spent Thursday (August 8) slowly releasing the remaining ones ahead of schedule: "iMi," "We," "Holyfields," "Naeem," "Marion," "Salem," "Sh'Diah," and "RABi." That's a lot of new music — case in point, it's the complete rest of the album. Exploring these ..

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Quick reminder: Taylor Swift's seventh album, Lover, will be out on in just over two weeks. A couple of days soon after that, she'll hit the 2019 VMAs for an efficiency and potentially walk away with some (or all?) Of the 10 awards she's nominated for. It's a good month to be her, and yes it apparently keeps getting better. On Thursday (August 8), Swift was revealed to be this year's..

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Blueberry 17! MTV 22! Hut! Hut! Hut! King Princess is a football player, a construction worker, plus a cake in her new video for "Prophet." It's a wild ride that follows her journey to woo a pretty woman who keeps popping up wherever she goes, culminating in a wild scene that you simply won't visualize coming, even with all of your years in music video prowess. You could not ever lo..

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Ariana Grande completely shocked fans on Tuesday night (August 6) any time while she appeared at Barbra Streisand's Chicago concert for a duet that was nothing short of iconic. With each other, they took the stage at the United Center and sang a very powerful rendition of Streisand's "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," which she originally recorded with Donna Summer in 1999. And ne..

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