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Drake Rocks Out To Mk.gee’s “ROCKMAN,” Is Still Working On Iceman

“Can we end my roughest gambling year on a good note??,” Drake asked on Instagram over the weekend while announcing three nights of Kick livestreams with creator BenDaDonnn, his last of 2025. (Over the summer the rapper revealed that he lost $8 million in just a month.)

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Max B Drops New Mixtape Public Domain 7: The Purge Feat. A$AP Rocky, Kehlani, French Montana, & More

Max B, the underground Harlem rap star who broke out with his debut mixtape Million Dollar Baby in 2006, was released from prison a few weeks ago after serving 16 years behind bars for a conviction that was eventually vacated. Last year, Max called into The Joe Budden Podcast to break the good news that he’d…

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Queen Unearth Previously Unreleased Christmas Song “Not For Sale (Polar Bear)”

It’s been 30 years since Queen last put out a studio album, but the cup that is their very expensive catalog hasn’t runneth empty just yet. Next year they’ll be reissuing their 1974 sophomore album Queen II, but as an early holiday present, they’re sharing one of the deluxe edition’s bonus tracks: a previously unreleased…

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Sondre Lerche Takes On Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile” For Annual Christmas Cover

Every year since 2009, the impressively consistent Sondre Lerche has premiered a just-recorded contemporary cover song on Stereogum around Christmastime. (The first one was a take on Animal Collective’s “My Girls.”) Last year the Norwegian musician did a Ryuichi Sakamoto-inspired interpretation of Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!,” and today, he’s shared his cover for 2025:…

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“Georgia On My Mind,” “I Got Rhythm,” & “Dream A Little Dream Of Me” Among Standards Entering Public Domain In 2026

New Year’s Day also marks Public Domain Day, when the copyrights for thousands of published works expire, allowing anyone to freely record, perform, or interpolate them. This time around that means musical compositions (music and lyrics, not recordings) copyrighted in 1930, and the list includes classics like “Georgia On My Mind” (music: Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics: Stuart Gorrell), “Dream A Little Dream Of Me” (music: Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt, lyrics: Gus Kahn), “I Got Rhythm (music: George Gershwin, lyrics Ira Gershwin), and the English version of “Just A Gigolo” (music: Leonello Casucci, lyrics: translated by Irving Caesar from Julius Brammer).

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Bad History Month – “The Fighters” (Dust From 1000 Years Cover)

Every few months you can count on Bad History Month’s Bandcamp page to update with some high-quality artisanal small-batch indie rock. Recently, that has involved a lot of covers of the same band. On his PIGWORLD series, Sean Sprecher has been recording songs by Dust From 1000 Years, the longstanding alias of Ben Rector, who…

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Bad Bunny Brings Out J Balvin At Mexico City Tour Finale, Marking End Of Feud

During Bad Bunny’s rise to global superstardom, J Balvin was right there alongside him. In 2016, when Bad Bunny was just getting started and Balvin was already flying high, the Puerto Rican guested on the Colombian’s single “Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola.” Balvin popped up on several Bad Bunny singles in 2017. The two urbano stars both guested on Cardi B’s 2018 summer smash “I Like It,” and they followed that up with the collaborative album Oasis in 2019.

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