A previously unreleased live version of Sleater-Kinney’s “Complex Female Characters” has hit Bandcamp ahead of the Aug. 19 arrival of the Courtney Barnett-steered charity compilation Here and There: B-Sides, Live Tracks + Demos. All proceeds will benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds and Advocates for Youth. The album is named after Barnett’s in-progress festival […]
A$AP Rocky has been charged with two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced the charges on Monday afternoon. Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, is set to be arraigned on Aug. 17. “Discharging a gun in a public place is a serious offense that could have ended with […]
Just after releasing her latest studio album, Megan Thee Stallion has shared the video for “Her.” The black and white, Colin Tilley-directed video is all about “her, her, her, she, she, she, me, me, me”—i.e. Meg. [embedded content][embedded content] The Stallion parades amongst Sia-haired dancers, spiting everyone who doesn’t accept her. She closes the first […]
Looking back at 1982 in music, the headline is obvious: Thriller Sells A Bajillion Copies, Becomes World’s Biggest Album. But is it the year’s best album? Funny enough, Michael Jackson‘s sixth LP hardly even affected the charts that year — it snuck out in late November, just as Men at Work’s 1981 blockbuster, Business as […]
Lizzo, Jack Harlow, Blackpink, and Maneskin have been added to the performance lineup for the MTV Video Music Awards, which will be handed out on Aug. 28 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. They join previously-announced performers Anitta, J Balvin, Marshmello and Khalid, Panic! At The Disco, Kane Brown, and Nicki Minaj, the latter […]
Adele has spoken in detail for the first time about the circumstances behind the January cancellation of her planned residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, which will finally resume on Nov. 18. In an interview with Elle, the British vocalist admits “there was just no soul in” the show. “The stage […]
This week marks the 53rd anniversary of Woodstock — the music and art fair of 1969, originally announced as “An Aquarian Exposition,” which took place at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York, after promoters couldn’t find a festival location in the town of Woodstock itself, a well-known haven for musicians at the […]
“I love New York,” Julia Michaels tells me, only a few minutes into our interview, from her Los Angeles home. Straight off, the singer and songwriter, who will turn 29 this year, is a lesson in dichotomies. She loves New York because it “feels communal,” in stark contrast to the place that Dorothy Parker once […]
Rage Against The Machine wrapped its first tour since 2010 last night (Aug. 14) at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a 19-show run that continued despite frontman Zack de la Rocha injuring his leg on night two and being forced to perform seated ever since. de la Rocha’s condition necessitated the cancellation of Rage’s planned […]
The Chicks had a surprise in store for Olivia Newton-John fans at the last stop of their summer tour last night at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash. About midway through their set, the country trio covered the late actress and singer’s Grease classic “Hopelessly Devoted to You.” “We lost a worldwide sweetheart last week, Olivia Newton-John,” […]