This article is being published in partnership with the watchdog group Documented. An organized and well-funded network of right-wing groups is spending countless millions attacking a bipartisan election reform that could threaten the MAGA political project. Ranked-choice voting — which allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, rather …

By any measure, Shane Smith and the Saints are in the midst of the sort of career-altering breakthrough that launches Texas bar bands into amphitheaters, music halls, and the top lines of festival posters. Start with the tour. This spring, the Saints will play the Grand Ole Opry, headline Red …

Twenty One Pilots will wrap up a nearly decade-long narrative with their upcoming LP Clancy, which concludes the duo’s multi-album arc that started with 2015’s Blurryface. Ahead of Clancy’s May 17 release, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun have shared the video for the album’s first single and opening salvo, “Overcompensate.” …

Eddie and Alex Van Halen had the closest musical relationship imaginable, playing together for nearly six decades —even in Van Halen’s most fallow periods, when the band was between singers, the brothers would rehearse at Eddie’s 5150 Studios to rehearse just about every day. Alex, Van Halen’s drummer, has been …

Hopes for a Gaza ceasefire dwindled Thursday in the aftermath of a brutal attack in Gaza City in which Israeli soldiers shot into a crowd of civilians, killing dozens. Health authorities in Gaza reported that Israeli soldiers shot at a busy crowd that had gathered to grab food off an …

Rising band Been Stellar have announced their debut album, Scream From New York, NY, out via new label Dirty Hit on June 14th. The NYC-based band have celebrated their album announcement with the brutal new single “Passing Judgement,” a steely post-punk track that comes with a frenetic video with footage …

“Freaknik was the greatest Black gathering in America,” Lil Jon says in the trailer for the upcoming doc, Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told. The film looks at the history of the long-running Atlanta street party known as Freaknik, with commentary from 21 Savage, Killer Mike, Jermaine Dupri, Uncle Luke, …

The Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a massive victory on Wednesday by agreeing to rule on whether he is immune from prosecution for acts committed while he was president. The court will hear arguments on April 22 and won’t hand down a decision until June —which means it’s unlikely a …

Sunday afternoon, I opened Twitter to see a report circulating that “someone attempted to set themselves on fire” outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. I reposted that report and noted that this is second such incident to occur (information about the first, in Atlanta in December 2023 remains largely …

There are over 55,000 PR agencies in the U.S. — a majority of them are based in NYC. So how does one go about cracking arguably the most oversaturated global market for comms? Start by throwing out everything you’ve been programmed to think, write, believe. Having worked in some of …