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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 25: Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, departs the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse after testifying on August 25, 2026 in Oakland, California. Tech behemoth Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more, has been order to pay out nearly $18 billion in the largest consumer protection settlement since 90’s era lawsuits against Big Tobacco.

Songs You Need In Your Life This Week Tracks we love right now, in no particular order. Tuide (pronounced “tweed”) is HYBE’s much hyped and fresh-faced new girl group, perhaps positioned to fill a very NewJeans-shaped hole in the company’s roster right now. I won’t speak on that, but “Sun Kiss” is a perfectly sweet and addictive debut, a frothy concoction of bossa and house.

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“I always just liked the rapper persona — cars, girls, chains, shit like that,” Judah Weston tells The FADER. “Now that I’m in it, I really don’t like the rapper persona. It’s not that cool to me.” Judah Weston is a fast-rising rapper from Manhattan’s Lower East Side and the star of a new documentary by The FADER.

The album art for The World Is Yours, out September 11. If Rio Da Yung OG has 1 pound of $100 bills on him, and each bill weighs one gram, approximately how much money is in Rio’s bankroll right now? Assume one gram is equal to 0.0022 pounds. If word problems weren’t your strong suit in school, don’t worry — Rio already did the math for you. “Finna Drop (Tour)” is the latest single from the hyper-prolific Flint native, whose raps are nearly as fast-paced as his nonstop lifestyle.

Legendary country singer and cultural icon Dolly Parton has died at 80, according to Parton's family. Her nephew and longtime head of security, Bryan Seaver, shared the tragic news via an Instagram video posted on August 25.

CAMERON WINTER AT CARNEGIE HALL — director Paul Thomas Anderson's 35mm and 16mm shot documentation of Cameron Winter's solo performance at Carnegie Hall — will be coming to theaters this fall and winter via Janus Films and Criterion. Winter's Carnegie Hall solo performance in December 2025 came amidst the peak of his rising star, a year after his solo record Heavy Metal anointed him as a new iconoclastic voice in American songwriting.

Cakes Da Killa and DJ Miss Parker know how to get the club pumping. The always essential queer rapper and DJ Miss Parker, a central figure in Brooklyn’s ongoing dance music revival, had known each other for years but they had never been close collaborators. That is until an inspired conversation at Nowadays spurred DJ Miss Parker to send some beat ideas to Cakes, who was in Berlin on tour.

10 years ago, Frank Ocean released his third studio album, Blonde, and has not released another one since. For a swan song, this is a formidable one: a 17-track opus that permanently altered the musical landscape the instant it dropped and continues to inspire new generations of musicians a decade later.

Yves Tumor performs at Glastonbury 2022. Experimental glam rocker Yves Tumor has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women. The news broke August 19 after the Twitter account @1likeaverage reshared a Reddit post from the subreddit r/yvestumor accusing the 36-year-old-musician, who was born Sean Lee Bowie and also goes by the nickname Shanti, of sexual assault. Shortly after, other artists including Angel Money and Kidӓ came forward to accuse Yves Tumor of similar behavior.