While October is best known as spooky season, in music this year, it became the month for some of the best pop and rock releases. With this month also came much-anticipated comebacks from the industry's biggest stars and drops from rising artists to keep an eye on. Keep scrolling for the best music of October.Rihanna -- "Lift Me Up"Fans have been waiting for new music from Rihanna for what feels like forever, and she finally delivered with "Lift Me Up," the first single off of the Black Panther:...

While October is best known as spooky season, in music this year, it became the month for some of the best pop and rock releases. With this month also came much-anticipated comebacks from the industry's biggest stars and drops from rising artists to keep an eye on. Keep scrolling for the best music of October.The 1975 -- Being Funny in a Foreign LanguageThe 1975 released their fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, on October 14. The record easily became a fan-favorite because of...

After a series of teasers, SZA has dropped her much anticipated single "Shirt" with an accompanying music video starring Lakeith Stanfield as the musician's love interest.The Grammy Award winner's visual for the track, first teased all the way back in 2020, is directed by Dave Meyers with a Quentin Tarantino-inspired aesthetic. The video adds to SZA's developing acting career as she gears up for Eddie Huang's Tuna Melt, in which she will star alongside Euphoria's Chloe Cherry."Blood stain on my...

Rihanna is finally serving us with new music. After sharing a snippet of the track earlier this week, the musician has dropped "Lift Me Up," a track off the soundtrack for Marvel Studios' upcoming film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.The release marks Riri's first music release as a solo artist in six years. Written by the artist herself alongside Tems, Oscar winner Ludwig Göransson and “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler, "Lift Me Up" is a tribute to the late actor Chadwick Boseman, who d...