Earlier this year, burgeoning British pop star Rachel Chinouriri shared a heartfelt and heartwrenching post with her followers on X. She’d just opened for Sabrina Carpenter’s European tour, meeting new fans and commanding arenas as if she were the headline act. Still, the Brit award nominee was met with a rude awakening once she started to scroll through Tweets about her — namely a repost of a video of her […]

Being an independent artist has never been easy — and with the constantly changing internet landscape, advent of TikTok, and razor focus on streaming services — it doesn’t seem to be getting easier. Still, creative music makers are excited to put their music in front of audiences despite the challenges, even when their challenges are more complex than their counterparts. Enter ILENE, a genre-bending, sound-defying hyperpop alternative artist. Her visceral […]

Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this […]

Colombian singer Karol G has teamed up with Amazon Music for an exclusive merch collection inspired by her new album, Tropicoqueta. Not only does the collection include special edition CDs and vinyl of the new album, which features her song “Latina Foreva,” it also contains T-shirts, hoodies, tote bags, and even PopSockets and phone cases branded with references to the album. Here’s what you can find in the collection: Tropicoqueta […]

Anybody who thought the vinyl resurgence was just a fad was mistaken: The industry has experienced a legitimate revival. As a result, music fans are interested in physical media in ways they may not have if the decades-old medium hasn’t made a comeback. That doesn’t mean everybody is listening to just their parents’ old music, though. That’s part of it, sure, thanks to rereleases that present classic albums in new […]