The countdown is officially over. Ari Lennox has released her new album, Vacancy, featuring previously released singles “Under the Moon,” “Vacancy” and “Twin Flame.” Buju Banton is the sole feature on the project, which marks her first since 2022 and her departure from Dreamville Records. She cowrote every track on the album.

RZA teamed with his son Rakeem to write “Like a Drum,” which will be featured in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming action comedy The Wrecking Crew starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa. “Working alongside my son, we focused on creating a song that reflects the film’s energy and soul, while allowing the music to stand on its own as a character in the story,” RZA says in a statement. The song is exclusively on Amazon Music. The Wrecking Crew premieres on Jan. 28. 

Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott joined group GIRLSET to add her flair to a song that sounds much like her name. She appears on the remix to “Little Miss (Misdemeanor),” which she’s seen performing in an Instagram post.

Dancehall artist Spice is in her “Soft Girl Era,” according to her new song and its accompanying video. “With ‘Soft Girl Era,’ I wanted to show that confidence can be soft, sultry, and unapologetic all at once,” she says in a statement. “This video is me celebrating how far I’ve come, living lavishly, and inspiring others to do the same.”

Wiz Khalifa has dropped “Too Blessed to Be Stressed,” which will appear in the new film Moses the Black, out on Jan. 30. Wiz executive produced the soundtrack and stars in the film alongside Omar Epps, Quavo and Chukwudi Iwuji.

Other releases:
idk, e.t.s.d. A Mixtape by .idk.

Roc Marciano, 656

42 Dugg, Part 3

Curren$y, Everywhere You Look

Rich the Kid, DDG and Blueface, “Vibes“

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OneRepublic’s debut album is coming to vinyl for the first time ever.

Dreaming Out Loud, originally released in 2007, will be available in two vinyl versions: a standard two-LP black vinyl available in stores and limited-edition two-LP blue galaxy color vinyl with an alternate cover available online.

The album features the hit “Apologize,” along with “Come Home,” “Say (All I Need)” and “Stop and Stare.”

The vinyl is available for preorder now and will be released on March 20.

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Paramore’s Hayley Williams and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James have been added to the lineup of the 2026 Resonator Awards, presented by We Are Moving the Needle. The event takes place Jan. 27 at Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles.

The Resonator Awards recognize the “artists, producers, and engineers whose craft shape the sound and culture of our time,” according to a press release.

Williams is set to take part in an all-star tribute to the legendary Chaka Khan, who’ll receive the Luminary Award, which is given to “a creator whose profound impact has transcended the confines of the music realm to significantly change culture.”

Also taking part in the Chaka Khan tribute are Grace Bowers, Lalah Hathaway, Maggie Rogers and surprise guests.

James is one of the newly announced performers at the event, with the lineup also including Foo Fighters producer Greg Kurstin, Sia, FLO, Lucias and Thundercat. Heart’s Nancy Wilson has also been added as a presenter.

St. Vincent and HAIM are among the other Resonator Awards honorees. St. Vincent will be presented with the Golden Trifecta Award by Olivia Rodrigo for “exerting prowess across multiple disciplines as a producer, engineer, and artist.” HAIM will receive the Disruptors Award, which “celebrates visionary creators who are redefining what’s possible in music,” from producer and former Vampire Weekend member Rostam.

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It’s been years in the making, but Parker McCollum‘s finally sharing his “Big Ole Fancy House” with his fans. 

The track’s become a fan favorite, since he’s included it in his set for years, though he hadn’t recorded it until now. 

“Y’all been asking for this one for a while so I’m glad it’s finally getting to you,” Parker says. “Took a couple of times of cutting it before it felt good enough to release, and I think I got it the way it should be heard.”

“Appreciate all the love everyone has shown this song. Means a lot,” he adds. 

“Big Ole Fancy House” is the first of four new tracks that will be added to the expanded version of Parker’s self-titled fifth album that came out in June. 

PARKER MCCOLLUM The Deluxe Edition is set to arrive March 20. He hasn’t revealed what the other three songs will be.  

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Don Toliver‘s next album, Octane, is set to drop on Jan. 30. He announced the news via a trailer on his social media Thursday. The clip opens with an overturned car and an injured woman lying on the ground. The camera then cuts to Toliver speeding through the streets in his car before he exits and enters what appears to be a factory, where he and a scientist seemingly work to bring the woman back to life. 

After hitting the road with Chris Brown in 2025, Summer Walker has announced her first arena tour. The Still Finally Over It Tour with Monaleo, Odeal and the Over It karaoke club kicks off May 26 in Toronto and wraps in London on Aug. 2. “You’re invited to the Still Finally Over It Tour. The final chapter of the Over It trilogy,” she wrote on social media. “My first arena tour. All three eras. All the feelings.” Fans can now sign up for access to the presales, which begin next week.

Denzel Curry has formed a supergroup called The Scythe with FERG, Bktherula, TiaCorine and Key Nyata. According to Complex, the group aims to honor and showcase their ties to the South. “The Scythe is a family and a group[.] … We still have our respective solo careers but when we come together it’s The Scythe,” he said. Their project, STRICTLY 4 DA SYCTHE, will arrive in March, featuring the lead single “LIT EFFECT.”

A$AP Rocky has three children with Rihanna, but does he want more? He tells The Joe Budden Podcast he wants “whatever God give me.” “I ain’t gon’ hold you, though. We got our hands full right now. We got a football team right now.” He then joked, “I’m about to catch up to Nick Cannon.”

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Harry Styles’ new single, “Aperture,” now has a visual to go with it.

The music video for the song, released Friday, begins with Harry in a hotel room calling down to the front desk. When he heads to the lobby, he’s confronted by a man who charges at him and tackles him down a spiral staircase. The two eventually go from tussling to dancing, performing some impressive lifts and flips throughout the building.

Harry explained to BBC Radio 1 Friday that “Aperture” was the last song he wrote for his new album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.

“We had most of the album done and a lot of it was exploring the themes that the song is exploring,” he said. “Getting this song at the end of the process when we were feeling the freest and having a lot of fun and it kind of felt like the mission statement of what the album was about.”

He said taking a couple of years off from work led to “a lot of big realizations about generally opening up more to the world and allowing some more positive things to come into my life.”

“It was the culmination of all that was happening around me making this record,” he said. “[‘Aperture’] was like a perfect little bow, and once this song happened it was like, ‘Oh, the record’s finished.’”

Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. comes out March 6. Here is the track list:
“Aperture”
“American Girls”
“Ready, Steady, Go!”
“Are You Listening Yet?”
“Taste Back”
“The Waiting Game”
“Season 2 Weight Loss”
“Coming Up Roses”
“Pop”
“Dance on More”
“Paint by Numbers”
“Carla’s Song”

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Megadeth’s self-titled final album is out now, which means fans are finally getting to hear the band’s cover of Metallica’s “Ride the Lightning.”

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was Metallica’s original guitar player but was fired from the band in 1983 and replaced by Kirk Hammet. He didn’t actually play on the original “Ride the Lightning,” which appeared on Metallica’s 1984 sophomore album. However, he’s credited as a co-writer on the song as it uses a riff that he came up with.

Mustaine first confirmed that Megadeth’s album contained the Metallica cover in an October interview with Rolling Stone.

“Our intentions were pure,” he said of rerecording the song. “I didn’t have any reason I was going to say, ‘Oh, hey man, this thing that we’ve had for 40 years where you guys will never tour with me, me doing the song is going to change things.’ That wasn’t it at all. It was more about: This is my life going forward. I want to do things that are respectable.”

Next up, Megadeth is set to kick off a farewell tour of North America, starting in Canada on Feb. 15 in Victoria, British Columbia. They will hit the U.S. starting in September. A complete list of dates can be found at Megadeth.com.

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