President Donald Trump announced today he is placing Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, and is deploying the National Guard in the city, insisting the action was necessary “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” He said this would be “Liberation Day” …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Elvis Week is officially here. The annual celebration that commemorates the rock legend runs from Aug. 8 to 16, 2025, at Elvis’s iconic Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee. …

After a breakout year that included 51.8 million monthly Spotify listeners, a music video with Addison Rae, and viral festival sets, Sombr is finally releasing his debut album. On Monday, the rising star announced that I Barely Know Her will arrive on Aug. 22 via Warner Records. The 10-track LP …

Taylor Swift has caught the attention of the most elite investigative team the world has ever seen: The Swifties. The singer sent fans into overdrive on Monday after a mysterious countdown to Aug. 12 at 12:12 a.m. ET popped up on Swift‘s website. The ticker arrived after several social media …

Last week, Kelly Clarksonpostponedthe remainder of her Las Vegas residency dates for August, revealing that her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, was ill. Just one day later, the music manager, with whom she shares two children, died at the age of 48 following a three-year battle with cancer. While Clarkson kept this …

The days leading up to the launch of a new K-pop group are often hectic and intense. Years of training typically go into preparing a group — not just in music and dance, but also often in areas like English, all to get them ready for global stardom. Now BIGHIT …

T o tell the truth, Andry Kiddos can’t remember exactly when he started producing music. He must have been around 13 or 14, just tinkering around on a couple of programs he downloaded from the internet, but before he knew it, he was making full-blown songs. “It was just about …

Since emerging as a hyperactive, scaffolding-scaling rapper in the early 2010s, MGK — formerly Machine Gun Kelly, born Colson Baker — has forged his own path through the pop-cultural consciousness. He’s feuded with Eminem; he’s engaged in egregious red-carpet PDA with his onetime flame Megan Fox; he’s acted in movies …

Although it doesn’t appear to be a contractual obligation, it sometimes seems as if any major act playing New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium has to acknowledge the setting. Both Coldplay and Zach Bryan brought out Bruce Springsteen during recent shows there, and this weekend, My Chemical Romance continued the tradition by …

Ben Platt is in his Addison Rae era. Over the weekend, the actor officially released his rendition of the pop singer’s sultry single “Diet Pepsi” on streaming services. Platt first performed the record on stage at the 2025 Las Culturistas Culture Awards, a celebration of pop culture chaos hosted by …