The U.K.’s Jewish Leadership Council has issued a statement condemning the Wireless Festival for booking Ye (formerly Kanye West) as the headliner of all three nights (July 10-12) of the this year’s event at Finsbury Park in London. A spokesperson for the Council told the Guardian, “It is deeply irresponsible for Wireless festival to be headlining Kanye West. The UK Jewish community is facing record levels of antisemitism, including a terrorist attack in Manchester, the attack on ambulances in Golders Green and foiled plots which would have killed many more.”

West has a long history of making antisemitic statements, from releasing a song called “Heil Hitler,” to selling T-shirts with swastikas on them and declaring himself a Nazi.

“West has repeatedly used his platform to spread antisemitism and pro-Nazi messaging,” the Council told the paper. “His most recent apology must be considered in the context that he went on to sell swastika T-shirts and release a song called Heil Hitler after apologizing previously. Any venue or festival should reconsider before providing their platform to Kanye West to spread his antisemitism.”

In addition, the U.K.’s Campaign Against Antisemitism told Far Out magazine that it was also vehemently opposed to the booking. “Kanye West has dedicated years of his life to trying to incite his followers to hate Jews,” a spokesperson for the charity said. “He has more followers than there are Jews on Earth, so his incitement has a huge impact. His cycle of apology and relapse has become a routine, so as with any addict once again we must wait to see if this time is any different.”

The charity noted that, as in the past, West’s most recent apology for his hate speech came on the even of the release of a new album, Bully, which dropped last week. “It is disappointing that venues have been so quick to invite someone who was so recently peddled conspiracy theories, Hitler worship and bigoted lies – including now one of the UK’s biggest festival stages. If he remains on the right path and makes more effort to make amends, that is well and good, but if he returns to his old ways these venues will have much to answer for.”

The festival run by Festival Republic, which is part of Live Nation, announced on Monday that West would headline all three nights of this year’s event, similar to Drake’s three-night stint last year, calling it a “three-night journey through his most iconic records.” The shows in support Bully will be West’s first gigs in the UK in 11 years and come after the rapper, 48, took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal in January apologizing for his repeated incidents of hate speech against the Jewish people, claiming that his 2022 car crash caused brain damage that led to mental health issues.

“I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst,” Ye wrote. “You endured fear, confusion, humiliation and the exhaustion of trying to love someone who was, at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self.” He added, “In that fractured state, I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold T-shirts bearing it,” claiming that he is now “committed to accountability” while saying he is “not a Nazi.” West issued a similar apology in 2023, just ahead of the release of his Vultures album.

West’s once formidable music and fashion empire melted down in 2022 after the rapper went on a monthslong spree of antisemitic comments, including printing the neo-Nazi phrase “White Lives Matter” on shirts as his Yeezy Paris Fashion Week show in October of that year, following an incident in which he said he was going “death con [sic] 3 on Jewish people” and later repeatedly praised Hitler and said he was a Nazi.

Those incidents, and several others like it, resulted in Ye losing lucrative deals with a number of former business partners, including Balenciaga, Adidas, Gap, Foot Locker and label UMG, as well as the scrapping of a planned documentary and the talent agency CAA dropping him as a client, among many other sanctions.

Ye headlined the Wireless Festival in 2014 and though he has performed less often since the backlash to his antisemitic comments, he is booked to make his return to the stage in the U.S. tonight (April 1) with the first of two shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.

Lizzo made a major confession about her sex life during an appearance on Benny Blanco and Lil Dicky’s Friends Keep Secrets podcast on Tuesday (March 31). “I was a late bloomer. I lied about it for a long time,” the “About Damn Time” singer, 37, said as the hosts tried to guess her age when she lost her virginity.

“Isn’t that crazy? … I wasn’t even thinking about it. For me, I just promised myself when I was younger that I wouldn’t have sex until I won a Grammy,” she explained. She won her first Grammy Award in 2020, when the deluxe version of her Cuz I Love You album took home best urban contemporary album, along with wins for best pop solo performance for “Truth Hurts” and best traditional R&B performance for “Jerome.”

When Lil Dicky asked, “Do you think you would have stuck to that? No. Eventually you would have f–ked had you not won the Grammy?,” Lizzo said “Who knows?” She also clarified that she didn’t actually have sex the night of the Grammys, but pretty soon after. And although she made the pact with herself and was excited to achieve her goal, she wasn’t thinking about sex when she won.

“I didn’t even know that it was in my cards,” she explained when co-host Kristin Batalucco asked if the excitement of the Grammy wins was overshadowed by her excitement to have sex. “I wasn’t even really set up for that,” Lizzo said.

Dicky said he could totally relate to lying about being a virgin, relating how when he was in college and his friends would ask if he was going to have sex that weekend he would act like it was definitely going to happen, like, a lot.

The singer said she also used to lie about being a virgin, saying it was “so embarrassing.” Lizzo described having a friend group of girls who were all grilling each other one night about their sex lives and when one of them asked if she was a virgin she remembers responding with an indignant “no. I remember it was so embarrassing,” she recalled. “I said, ‘I love the D!’ I said that. It was so f–king embarrassing … I was like, ‘I love the D’ and it held me over for a little while.”

She also revealed that her first kiss was at 21, explaining that it was a religious thing as well as a Grammy thing. “When we were teenagers at my church, we all made a pact that we wouldn’t do anything before marriage,” she said. “And then, I was just so scared. No one wanted to kiss me.”

And when she did have that kiss, frankly, “it was terrible. It was a New Year’s Eve thing and he, like, forced it on me,” she said. “I was really mad and I was like, ‘My first kiss is ruined!’”

Watch Lizzo discuss her sex life on Friends Keep Secrets below.

Songs, when they’re released into the world, tend to have a life all of their own. Tems’ “What You Need” is a solid example.

The Afrobeats star previewed it during an Instagram Live years ago, even declaring “this song is not coming out.” It did come out in November 2025, the standout track from the Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer’s third EP Love Is a Kingdom. 

On Tuesday night, March 31, “What You Need” got its introduction to late owls with a performance on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Tems owned the stage, sparkling with Hollywood glamor in a long silver-white dress, her a-class band performing behind a thin curtain.

Produced with her frequent collaborator GuiltyBeatz, “What You Need” is a stripped-down epilogue about a relationship not worth salvaging. On it, she sings: “Your love is not my lifeline, your love is not my home.”

Tems has played a pivotal role in ushering in the rise of Afrobeats in the United States. She contributed to the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, and has landed eight titles on the Billboard Hot 100, including a No. 1 for her contribution to Future’s 2022 hit “Wait For U,” also featuring Drake. Earlier, in 2020, Wizkid featured Tems on his summer anthem “Essence,” which hit the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 (partly due to a Justin Bieber remix), earning Tems her first Grammy Award nomination, for best global music performance.

She has piled up eight total Grammy nominations, for two wins: best African music performance with “Love Me JeJe” at the 67^th Grammys, and best melodic rap performance of “Wait For U” at the 65^th Grammys.

Tems has the kind of outlook the rest of us are in pursuit of. “Every day is something different, which is ­actually very exciting for me,” she told Billboard for her 2025 cover story. “I’m always like, ‘Hmm, I wonder how today is going to go. I wonder what’s going to happen.’” She settles into each day with a ritual. “In the mornings, I always do my self-care. I pray and declare that everything is going to be good and whatever comes my way, I’ll be fine.”

Watch Tems’ late-night performance below.

Joe Dolce’s catchy ‘80s hit “Shaddap You Face” and Missy Higgins’s 2004 breakthrough “Scar” are among the four songs added to Australia’s vault, the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA).

All told, nine works are added to the Sounds of Australia 2026 collection, a capsule that is said to span “the intimate, the everyday and the unforgettable.”

“Shaddap You Face” was an unexpected global smash following its release in 1980. Dolce performs the song in character, using exaggerated accent and stereotype, but that didn’t stop it from spreading like warm butter. The single logged three weeks at No. 1 in the U.K., and eight in Australia, where became the best-selling 7-inch of all time.  

“More than four decades on, it remains a clear example of how performance-led comedy can travel far beyond its origins,” reads a statement from the NFSA.

Also entering the archive is Missy Higgins’ “Scar,” lifted from the Aussie singer and songwriter’s chart-topping, ARIA Award-winning debut album The Sound of White.

“Over time,” reads a statement from the NFSA, “it has come to represent a broader early-2000s shift toward piano-led, confessional pop in Australia.”

Today, Higgins is one of Australia’s most beloved, and awarded, artists. In 2024, she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.

Another member of the ARIA Hall of Fame, Marcia Hines, who was inducted in 2007, has a song preserved for generations to hear: the disco era “You.”

Released in 1977 and written by U.S. songwriter Tom Snow, “You” arrived at a time “when Australian pop was still defining its mainstream identity,” reads a statement from the NFSA, on its addition to the archive.

The joyful song “confirmed Hines as a major national artist and showed how vocal interpretation could shape the sound — and visibility — of Australian music.”

The Archive also ingests the title track from the ARIA Award-nominated 1990 album Tabaran, a recording by David Bridie’s Australian indie-rock band Not Drowning, Waving with musicians from Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, led by singer George Telek.

“Tabaran” remains “a key example of regional collaboration in Australian recording history, capturing language, musical practice and partnership across the Asia–Pacific,” a statement explains.

The Sounds of Australia collection takes in the “Slip! Slop! Slap!” TV advertisement published in 1981; the “Misogyny Speech” delivered by former prime minister Julia Gillard in 2012; and the impromptu “Democracy Manifest / Succulent Chinese Meal” speech given by the late Jack Karlson as he was arrested by police in 1991, a moment that has become one of Australia’s finest memes.

The sounds are selected by a panel of industry and NFSA experts, who consider public nominations of recordings that are more than 10 years old. After this year’s additions, the collection boasts over 200 pieces.

“We select sound recordings that have particular cultural, historic, or aesthetic significance — things that we think are particularly relevant to life in Australia,” explains NFSA assistant curator Hannah de Feyter. “One thing that we’re getting from the additions in this year’s capsule is the incredible variety of recorded sound that we have in our history.

See the full 2026 Sounds of Australia list here.