Iggy Pop, Descendents and Parquet Courts top the bill for the first Destination Chaos festival, which will take place Jan. 28-Feb. 4 at the Senator Resort on Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. Tickets for what’s described as “all-inclusive week of music, comedy, booze, culinary madness and tropical debauchery” go on sale Saturday (Aug. 20). […]
A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty today (Aug. 17) to two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm in Los Angeles. The incident took place on Nov. 6, 2021, in Hollywood, Calif., when Rocky allegedly shot at former A$AP Mob member A$AP Relli. According to the L.A. District Attorney’s office, his next court date is on […]
Kid Cudi signaled the end of his tumultuous, 13-year friendship with Kanye West in a recent Esquire interview, saying “It’s gonna take a motherfucking miracle for me and that man to be friends again” in reference to the escalating beef between the two rappers over the past year. In February, West wrote on Instagram that […]
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Todd Rundgren has enlisted The Roots, Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Sparks, The Lemon Twigs, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, Crowded Houses’ Neil Finn, guitar legend Steve Vai and artist/producer Thomas Dolby for his new album, Space Force. The project will be released Oct. 14 on Cleopatra Records. The first single, “Puzzle” […]
Paramount will air the Sept. 3 Taylor Hawkins tribute concert live from London’s Wembley Stadium across Paramount+ (domestically), Pluto TV (internationally) and MTV Brand YouTube Channels (globally). In addition, CBS will air an hour-long edition of the show that night, while MTV’s one-hour special will air that night in Latin America and the following day […]
Some of the top names in country and roots music have joined forces for Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver, due Nov. 11 from New West Records and Pedernales Records. The album was produced by Charlie Sexton and Freddy Fletcher and is led by Willie Nelson and Lucinda Williams’ cover of Shaver’s “Live […]
A previously unreleased live version of Sleater-Kinney’s “Complex Female Characters” has hit Bandcamp ahead of the Aug. 19 arrival of the Courtney Barnett-steered charity compilation Here and There: B-Sides, Live Tracks + Demos. All proceeds will benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds and Advocates for Youth. The album is named after Barnett’s in-progress festival […]
A$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 […]
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 […]