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As Labor Day approaches (Monday, Sept. 2), it’s a great time to refresh your fall wardrobe. It’s not too early to start to taking advantage of all the incredible deals at Target. Whether you’re looking to stay cozy this fall, upgrade your TV for binge-watching your favorite shows, or find staple fashion pieces to embrace the upcoming season, Target has everything you need from stylish wardrobe essentials to home upgrades like a new coffee maker.

Although summer is coming to an end, you can still snag some incredible deals to transition your wardrobe seamlessly into fall, with must-have pieces that blend style, comfort, and ease. From jumpsuits to long midi dresses with pockets, you’ll find pieces that simplify your daily outfit choices, making getting dressed a breeze.

To make your shopping easier, we’ve put together a list of the top 10 Labor Day Deals to kick off your fall shopping. Shop trendy and comfortable pieces from top brands such as Jockey Generation, West K, Kona Sol, White Mark, August Sky, Cupshe, Jockey, Allegra K, and Catalonia.

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With just a month and a half before the 2024 edition of ADE, organizers have announced a new slew of names for the 2024 program.

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Joining the lineup for the annual dance music industry conference in Amsterdam are SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton, who will take part in a conversation with Dutch producer Mau P to talk about the producer’s success and the role SoundCloud has played in supporting him and other artists.

Representatives from Bandcamp are joining the program for a session that will focus on the company’s artist payment model, maximizing revenue in a challenging landscape and why fan engagement and diversified income streams are important for the success of artists.

Also new to the program is a conversation with German producer Ellen Allien and Dimitri Hegemann, the founder of the nightclub and record label Tresor Berlin, who will talk about the UNESCO cultural heritage designation of the Berlin techno scene. Talks from artists including Don Diablo and Laidback Luke, Smallgod, Jaguar, Miss Nine and OVO Sound’s Naomi Sharon and her manager Jasper ‘Djosa’ Cremers will also be featured at the event. Representatives from Warner Music, Hospital Records, Glastonbury, ID&T, Primary Talent, SiriusXM and more have all also been newly added to the program.

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This group joins already announced participants including Empire president Tina Davis, Spotify’s head of music for Sub-Saharan Africa Phiona Okumu, Grimes’ manager Daouda Leonard, Believe’s global head of music Romain Vivien and TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleeson. Previously announced speakers include Timbaland, Martin Garrix, Laurent Garnier, music executive Grace Ladoja and representatives from fabric London, Armada Music, WME and UTA.

Additional programming includes Australia House, an initiative from Sounds Australia, an organization that helps Australian artists develop their careers abroad. For the duration of ADE, Australia House will take over the city’s Box Sociaal cafe to host execs from around the world for morning coffee, lunch and dinner and to present events by Australian artists on Oct. 16-17.

ADE 2024 will take place at locations throughout Amsterdam and again be divided into Lab and Pro programming, with Lab content tailored for people trying to get into or just starting out in the industry and Pro programming designed for established managers, label execs, artists, streamers, marketers, promoters and more.

The conference also offers consumer-facing events, with last year’s musical offerings happening in more than 200 venues around the city.

The world of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place is just around the corner!

The show will officially premiere two episodes on Tuesday (Oct. 29) at 8 p.m. ET on Disney Channel. The first eight episodes will be available on Disney+ and Disney Channel On Demand the next day.

Additionally, a press release confirmed that Disney stars Raven-Symoné (Raven’s Home) and Danielle Fishel (Girl Meets World) will direct episodes in season one.

Selena Gomez and David Henrie, who played magical siblings Alex and Justin Russo on the original Wizards, will reprise their roles and serve as executive producers on the reboot. Along with Gomez and Henrie, former Disney Branded Television head Gary Marsh and director Andy Fickman are on board to produce, as are the pilot’s writers, Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas. 

Henrie’s character will lead the majority of the show as Dad to sons Milo, played by Max Matenko, and Roman, portrayed by Alkaio Thiele. More than a decade after the original Wizards wrapped in 2012, Justin Russo is also a married man; his wife, Giada, will be brought to life by Mimi Gianopulos. The series lead, Billie, will be portrayed as Janice LeAnn Brown.

According to the series description, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, follows “an adult Justin Russo, who has chosen to lead a normal, mortal life with his family, Giada, Roman and Milo. When Justin’s sister Alex brings Billie to his home seeking help, Justin realizes he must dust off his magical skills to mentor the wizard-in-training while also juggling his everyday responsibilities — and safeguarding the future of the Wizard World.”

Following the premiere, two new episodes — including a Halloween-themed episode — will air Wednesday (Oct. 30) on Disney Channel. Beginning Nov. 8, episodes move to Fridays at 8 p.m. ET, with two episodes weekly.

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Wrangler is partnering with country singer-songwriter, Cody Johnson, to introduce a new collection of cowboy-inspired dress shirts released on Thursday (Aug. 29).

“A real work of heart,” reads a post on Wrangler’s Instagram account which Johnson reposted to his account. “Introducing the Wrangler x Cody Johnson collection. A collection that takes center stage while delivering style, comfort, and fit. Each piece-designed in partnership with Cody-draws on his experience as a cowboy and one of the biggest country music stars of his generation. Long Live Cowboys!”

Shirts in the Wrangler x Cody Johnson Collection retail for $59.99 and are available in plaid, paisley and diamond prints. The single-pocket, button-down shirts designed come in various shades of blue and two burgundy colorways in sizes ranging from S up to 2XT.  

Johnson, a longtime fan of Wrangler, personally chose the fabrics, patterns and details featured in the collection which are designed to be worn anywhere from the farmhouse to the stage and beyond.

“I put a lot of time into this collection. This is a shirt I designed specifically for you,” the Grammy winner shared in a statement on the Wrangler website.

Johnson is the latest country singer to partner with Wrangler joining fellow country stars Lainey Wilson and George Strait. Speaking of Wilson, Johnson teased a possible collaboration with the “Heart Like a Truck” singer during a recent interview.

“I’m going duck hunting with her boyfriend Duck [Devlin “Duck” Hodges]. I guess that’s how he got his name, because he’s really into hunting,” he explained. “I heard Loretta Lynn’s ‘Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man.’ I called Lainey and said we should record that song together, and she agreed.  But we haven’t done it yet.”

As for his solo music, the country crooner is currently embarking on The Leather Tour in support of his 2023 album of the same name. The tour stops in South Dakota on Sept 6, Oklahoma on Sept. 13, Montana on Sept. 14 and Louisiana on Sept. 14. Get tickets here.

Machine Gun Kelly has been a mainstay in the rap game for well over a decade and MGK’s shown versatility to dabble in other genres such as rock and even country with his “Lonely Road” single featuring Jelly Roll.

The Cleveland native joined Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast earlier this week where he discussed a myriad of topics including how he feels white people have given him “the most s–t” when it comes to stigmatizing his place in hip-hop as a white rapper.

“I won’t deny that there is a subconscious stigma around that — being white in hip-hop,” he said around the 37-minute mark. “To me, it’s so funny because the streets f–k with me so tough. It’s honestly from other white people that give me the most s–t.”

MGK continued while seemingly saluting his rap battle foe Eminem: “The crazy thing is there’s only been one who’s done it. There’s only been one who’s done it and crossed that line of acceptance.”

Kells returned in July with his John Denver-sampling Jelly Roll collaboration “Lonely Road,” which sits at No. 74 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 following a No. 33 debut.

After laboring over perfecting “Lonely Road” to his standard for two years, MGK admitted he was worried he’d face backlash for people thinking he was attempting to follow in Post Malone’s footsteps in the hip-hop to country pipeline. Posty released his F-1 Trillion album earlier in August, which debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 250,000 album units sold.

“In the past two years while I was doing ‘Lonely Road,’ Post did this and so the whole time I’m thinking, like, ‘F—ing people are going to think I’m just following this.’ I had to humbly sit there while, for years, I’ve been curating this song knowing I’m gonna have to fight against something here,” he said.

MGK was nervous to play the demo to what became “Lonely Road” for Jelly Roll, but he ultimately let him hear it for the first time while they were driving around together looking for a party following the Grammy Awards in L.A. earlier this year.

“He’s driving himself. I’m like, ‘You drove yourself to the Grammys.’ He’s like, ‘I’m so white trash I can’t get it out of me,’” Machine Gun Kelly recalled. “I get the AUX cord and that same thing that took over when it told me to black out my tattoos or Tickets to My Downfall is the name — those moments when the universe is telling you something, it told me play the demo of ‘Lonely Road.’ I press play and he was like, ‘What the f–k is this?’ I was like, ‘Man, it’s just calling you.’ He was like, ‘I’m on it.’”

Watch the full interview below.

Making music while in prison is nothing new. Mac Dre, T.I., former Dipset member Hell Rell and a few others have managed to drop bars from behind bars. Vybz Kartel, the dancehall legend who was recently released from prison after serving 13 years of a 35-to-life sentence, revealed in a recent interview that he kept his career going by finding novel ways to record music while locked up.

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For an episode of the Juan Ep Is Life podcast, Vybz Kartel hopped on a video call with hosts Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg to talk about the first thing he did when he was released from prison (have sex with his fiancée), how he’s been spending his time (eating healthy, working out, managing his Graves’ Disease and making music), and what he’s planning for the immediate future (a series of performances around the world, including a massive one in Jamaica on Dec. 31). But the most surprising part of the interview came about 25 minutes into the episode when they begin talking about the massive amount of music Kartel released while locked up.

“We’re not trying to snitch on you, we’re just so curious, we’re fans,” said Cipha Sounds after Rosenberg mentioned that a number of his most successful releases came during his time away. Kartel said when he first went to prison he was able to continue his usual clip of releases because of how much music he had recorded beforehand. “In the first year, we had songs unreleased,” said Kartel. “But then the songs ran out and we had to do what we had to do. That’s when I started recording behind bars.” He said he used to record his vocals on an Apple iPhone because the handheld had “an amazing sound quality.”

To try and get the best sound quality possible while recording, Kartel said he would use the mattress from his bed to imitate the padding found in a studio’s recording booth. “I would have the phone, like, 3 feet from my face and I would wrap the mattress around my head and record. It was crazy.” Afterward, he would make a demo using the vocals from the iPhone and a beat playing on an iPad. He would then send both to an engineer who would take all the components and turn it into a full song.

It’s all very impressive. But what’s most amazing about that process is Kartel says it’s the same one used to create what is considered by many to be his biggest song: “Fever.” Released in 2016 as the single for Kartel’s King of Dancehall album, “Fever” became an instant hit and is now his most-streamed song, notching more than 100 million streams on Spotify. Kartel said he would record mostly at night or wait until the guards were on their lunch break to record his vocals, always keeping an eye out for any that were on patrol. “I’d still have to be watching,” he remembers. “So I’d [sing], ‘fever!’ and then I’d have to get up and look. It was crazy. It was line by line!”

Is Megan Thee Stallion teasing a possible BTS reunion or Jung Kook collab? Keep watching for the hints that have been put out!

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Is Megan Thee Stallion collabing with BTS? Or is it Jung Kook? ARMY is speculating and we’re freaking out! Megan jumped on a remix of “Butter” back in 2021, and we are forever grateful for the 3J dance break. Iconic. Just today, she tweeted a horse emoji with a purple heart and some looking eyes. For those who don’t know, purple is a color that represents BTS, and their fans, known as ARMY, use the emoji often. While it could be a sign of her reuniting with the group, some suspect it could be a solo track with member Jung Kook. His documentary is heading to theaters next month and fans think new music could be included. Are you as excited as we are? Let us know what you think in the comments.

If you were wondering why Rick Ross chose to get involved in the Drake pile-on last spring, his recent sit-down with Shannon Sharpe and Ochocinco in Houston for their Nightcap Summer Sessions has your answer.

“Y’all had the summer going crazy. I thought all y’all were like… cool?” Sharpe asked Rozay of his relationship with Drake, with whom he’s collaborated in the past.

“I’mma be honest: On some rap sh–, it was no conspiracies,” he said, in reference to Drake’s “What the f— is this, a 20-v-1“ line in “Push Ups.” The Miami rapper then added, “Rozay name was said… I’mma jump off the porch. That’s what I do. I’mma jump off the porch and I’mma have some fun and that’s what I did. I had some fun.”

Sharpe then asked Ross, “How do you determine who you respond to and who you don’t?” And Ross answered, “Is it something to gain for you? Somebody wake up and hate on Shay Shay, hate on Ocho, I mean… Let’s sit back, because not responding is a response when you a boss.”

Ross famously responded to the Toronto rapper’s disses aimed at him on “Push Ups” with his own diss record “Champagne Moments” only a few hours later on the same day. He and Drake continued to troll each other on social media for weeks even as the latter was focusing just on Kendrick Lamar. Things took a turn in July, though, when Rozay was attacked in Vancouver when his DJ played “Not Like Us” as he was trying to head back to his dressing room after performing at Ignite Music Festival.

Drake brought the beef up again in one of his most recent songs “No Face” with bars like, “N—as got lit off the features I skated on/ I gotta know, I gotta know, how you get lit off the n—a you hatin’ on?” and “This is the moment I know they been prayin’ on… Try knock The Boy off, but f— it, I’m stayin’ on.”

Rick Ross makes his appearance on Nightcap Summer Sessions around the two-hour mark below:

Earlier this summer, avant-garde musical pioneer Laurie Anderson stopped by Billboard’s first-ever Indie Power Players event at the Soho Grand Hotel in Manhattan to accept the Indie Icon Award. When I bring it up to her over Zoom a few weeks later, Anderson laughs off the idea of being hailed as one of the GOATs. “That was a little embarrassing – or a lot embarrassing,” she demurs. “Yeah. Icon. But you know, it’s flattering. It was sweet.”

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She’s clearly retained some of that Midwestern humility from her childhood in the suburbs of Chicago. But if Laurie Anderson isn’t an indie icon, then who is? After making waves in the New York City art scene since the ‘70s, she brought her uncompromising, idiosyncratic vision to one of the major labels, Warner. Bros., with 1982’s Big Science. A heady, funky mélange of minimalism, electronica and art-pop, the trailblazing classic enjoyed improbable crossover success thanks in large part to its single “O Superman (For Massenet),” which became a No. 2 hit in the U.K. Over the ensuing decades, Anderson has become an influential force in exploring the ways music, technology and performance art intersect. Plus, she’s done everything from voicing a Rugrat to directing films to winning a Grammy.

The lattermost came thanks to Landfall, her 2018 album with the Kronos Quartet. On Friday (Aug. 30), Anderson returns with Amelia, a Nonesuch release that delves into legendary aviator Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated final flight. But while questions such as “what really happened to Amelia Earhart?” and “where did her plane crash?” have recurred throughout popular culture for nearly 90 years, Amelia isn’t interested in answers, or even asking questions. Instead, Anderson – through her indelible mixture of storytelling, sing-speak and dizzying soundscapes – takes us into the cockpit with Earhart throughout the course of her flight, drawing on flight logs, diary entries and contemporary interviews to give a sense of the frightening vastness of the ocean, the thrill and loneliness of exploration and the othering of female pilots in the 1930s. Like much of her work, it’s soothing, unsettling and thought-provoking.

“They called her Lady Lindy, they didn’t even take her seriously,” Anderson says. “But she was doing this really dangerous thing. She was very hands on, unlike Charles Lindbergh, who was a white gloves pilot in many ways. She really was working with the guys under the hood.” It’s that element of Earhart’s life that makes her story feel “super timely” to Anderson, who notes that “girls still aren’t really encouraged to do engineering” nearly 100 years later.

Below, Anderson walks Billboard through this project’s roundabout gestation, why collaborator ANOHNI is perfect “for every project” and her work on a “doomsday comedy” that will serve as Part V to her groundbreaking magnum opus from 1983, United States Live.

When you arrived at Billboard’s Indie Power Players event in June, you gave a surprise performance with this little handmade electronic device in your mouth. How long does it take you to make something like that?

Oh, you know, it’s sorts of time depending on what you’re making. I’m making a few things now for a big show in the fall. Right now, the project that I’m doing called ARK is mind-boggling. There are so many pieces to it that it’s just weird.

What’s ARK?

ARK is a big thing with music pictures and electronics on a stage in a big theater [Factory International] in Manchester, which is going to open in the fall [Nov. 12-24]. And it’s something about the end of the world.

I mean, we could be facing that soon.

Well, it’s kind of in the back of people’s minds. And I really like what’s in the back of people’s minds. It influences you even though you’re not necessarily talking about it. So that’s why I wanted to do that. It’s also — it sounds really stupid — but it’s like a doomsday comedy.

How else does one approach doomsday?

Exactly. That’s what I think. Yeah, yeah.

So Amelia is your new album, but I gather you’ve done this piece before – in 2000 at Carnegie Hall.

That was its distant cousin, let’s say. That was a very long time ago. Those pieces don’t really sound like each other at all. That was something that I was commissioned to do for Carnegie Hall, and then it was kind of horrible, actually. Really. It’s really pretty bad. So I stopped working on it. Then a few years later, the conductor [Dennis Russell Davies] said, “You know, I really liked that piece.” And I said, “You did?!” He said, “Yeah, let’s just do it for string orchestra.” So we did and it sounded pretty cool. Then, in the pandemic, he got back to me again and said, “Let’s record that.” And I really like this conductor a lot. He’s really supportive and cool. So we recorded it, and then I thought, “Okay, I’m gonna put some other stuff on top of this.” And that’s what this record is.

So did Carnegie Hall specifically commission it to be about Amelia Earhart, or was that your choice?

No, they just wanted something about flight, so I chose Amelia. I really got very fond of her working on it. She was she always talking to women — she was like the original blogger, first of all. She was talking to reporters at every stop, she would send telegrams at every stop, and she would write in her pilot’s log and in her diary. She was very conscious of her public. She also married her press agent, which tells you a lot. What I liked the most about her was she said, “You know, if I survive this trip” — and she wasn’t sure if she would — she said, “I want to start shop for girls.” At that point, boys in school took shop, which was like engines and motors and metal and woodworking, and girls took cooking and cleaning. I was like, “Whoa, that’s very cool.” She said, “Girls should find out how engines work, too.” She didn’t live to make that happen. But it was I was very impressed with that because her plane crashed like 87 years ago, on July 2 [1937], and you look at what’s going on now: Girls still aren’t really encouraged to do engineering or government, medicine, politics. It’s just kind of weird that women haven’t made more progress, I think. So anyway, that was an important story to hear now.

It’s timely.

Super timely, especially when we virtually just elected a president who kind of thinks women are stupid. It’s crucial to look at people who did really amazing things. And she was a great pilot. People were very patronizing when she was doing it: they called her Lady Lindy, they didn’t even take her seriously. But she was doing this really dangerous thing. She was very hands on, unlike Charles Lindbergh, who was a white gloves pilot in many ways. She really was working with the guys under the hood. And I really admire that about her. People are always asking me, “How do you work with technology?” And it’s not like it’s so amazing. It’s still [seen as] weird for women to be working with technology.

I hadn’t heard she was called Lady Lindy ‘til I listened to the album. That’s doubly a shame, since he was a racist.

He’s a pretty odd character. And pretty, I think, horrendous in the end. Just a really scary, weird guy. And what a story that he actually killed his son – did you go for that story?

The baby thing?

Yeah, the baby thing and trying to get the organs for his sister. I was like, “Whoa, that’s the weirdest story ever.”

That dovetails a bit with something I wanted to ask. Like the Lindbergh baby, people are still coming up with theories and evidence about the Earhart crash. Not that long ago, someone said they might have found her plane. Did that ever make you think, “hmm, maybe I should address this in the project?”

Oh, no, no. I think some of those are sort of credible but most of them aren’t really. They’re pretty iffy. The very last one? Maybe. I don’t know and it doesn’t matter to me.

After immersing yourself in her world and travels, do you ever get the urge to visit some of these places – Howland Island, New Guinea – for research? Or have you?

If I could go anywhere, I’d go to the Galapagos. Just to see what that would feel like. But no, I never really felt like going to look for her plane. I’d rather write about certain things than go there. Although that’s not to say that wouldn’t be really, really fun to do.

The album features guest vocals from one of my favorite singers, ANOHNI. What was it about ANOHNI that made her make sense for this project?

She makes sense for every project. I just love her singing. I got to hear her new show a couple weeks ago. So beautiful. I’m just a complete fan. She’s singing in ARK as well; she’s singing the part of the Buddha. It’s so inspiring to work with her.

So Amelia is a “distant cousin” of something you started in 2000. Last year, I saw you perform your Let X=X show at BAM in Brooklyn, and it was absolutely incredible. Similarly, that found you revisiting some of your older work, with Sexmob as your backing band. When you revisit this material, how do you balance the urge to tinker with it and make it different, as opposed to staying true to the spirit of the original piece?

Really good question, because that’s something I’m doing in this project called ARK now, which is subtitled The United States Part V. It’s basically what I see as the empire falling, in a way. But you never know; there are complex ways that things fall apart and then come back into shape, so you never know. There are a couple of things that refer to earlier pieces. Sometimes I think I’m the only one who’s going to notice that but sometimes other people do. It’s a wild project to be doing. But anyway, with Amelia I was very happy with how the orchestra seemed to be almost the ocean in it or the wind. It had this wildness to it that was really fun to work with. I did this backwards, actually. I did the orchestra and then I did drum and bass overdubs. Which is crazy. Tony Scherr, the bass player, I just said, “I want you to improv over the whole thing.” I didn’t play it for him [before]. He just did his part live. He’s an incredible player and he did some really intuitive things. It felt very spontaneous. I loved what he did.

When you’re working on these things, are you a one-take, two-take person, or do you obsess over tweaks and changes?

One hundred percent obsession. It goes on forever. It’s never right. Oh yeah. I love it. I love sitting in the studio and sampling things and playing around and that’s kind of how I put it together. Just a long time alone in the studio. It’s a lot of fun for me to do it like that.

After having a seven-album deal with Warner Bros. back in the day, you’ve been with Nonesuch for a while. Being on an indie must jibe well with your tendency to take your time, as opposed to being forced to hit deadlines to deliver albums.

That’s probably true. Although they didn’t bother me about that at Warner. They didn’t say, “Crank them out, come on!” The time I was [at Warner] there were some real music lovers, and they were just really interested in what I was doing. And at Nonesuch, I feel the same. For me, it depends more on the people than on the actual label. So I didn’t really feel that kind of pressure.

You’ve done a number of performance pieces that haven’t made it to a recording studio. I’m thinking of your 1999 piece Songs and Stories From Moby-Dick. I’ve always been curious, do you ever think about going back to those pieces and making a proper document of it on an album?

No, I don’t. I want to move forward. If there’s a point in incorporating it into anything then I would, but not just to go back and set the record straight.

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