A month before Depeche Mode release their new album Memento Mori, the Rock Hall-inducted now-duo stopped by The Late Show Thursday to perform the LP’s first single and one of the band’s classics. In the episode, Dave Gahan and Martin Gore showcased their new song “Ghosts Again,” the first offering …
Read More »Reneé Rapp Takes Her Victory Lap on 'Everything to Everyone' Deluxe, 'Bruises' Music Video
The Reneé Rapp hype train barrels forward and is picking up right where she left off a breakout 2022. The deluxe version of Everything to Everyone has arrived with an extended edition of the title track and a new single, “Bruises.” “All my friends make sweet fun of me, I …
Read More »How To Dominate Your Film Festival Run Part 3
Filmmakers, you’ve been patient. While you awaited the epic finale of this series on navigating a successful festival run, it is our hope that you’ve already taken some of our previous advice to heart and applied it in your own endeavors as you’ve achieved your own fame and notoriety on …
Read More »'Twerking Should Rank Up There With the F Bomb': The Rihanna Super Bowl FCC Complaints Are Here
Gather ‘round everyone! It’s that special time of year once again: The FCC complaints over the Super Bowl Halftime Show have arrived! Rolling Stone obtained the complaints to the proverbial television manager via a Freedom of Information Act request, and you better believe people were mad about Rihanna’s performance. In …
Read More »History Repeats Itself in TikTok's Ancestor Trend
Ever since Stephanie Black was 10 years old, she wanted to be an archaeologist. But she was 17 the first time she put that dream into action. After her mother told her she needed to have a plan for her life, Black slammed her door, opened her laptop, and clicked …
Read More »Ashley McBryde's New Song Reminds Us to Keep a 'Light On in the Kitchen'
Ashley McBryde has offered the first glimpse of her post-Lindeville era mere days after a thrilling two-night staging of that collaborative album at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter released her new song “Light On in the Kitchen” on Friday, expressing her admiration for those who looked out for her …
Read More »Paris Hilton Reveals She Was Drugged and Raped When She Was 15
Paris Hilton revealed in a new interview that, when she was 15 years old, she was drugged and raped by an “older” man. Prior to the publication of her biography Paris: The Memoir — where she writes about the incident in greater detail — the heiress and reality TV star …
Read More »Don Toliver's 'Love Sick' Is Seductive And Forgettable
Don Toliver albums are not what you would call “textually rich.” For stretches, they can seem almost ambient: all purple neon, Xannied-out synthesizers, a never ending montage of nightclubs and bedrooms and cash registers. What sticks out is the timbre of the R&B-trap singer’s voice, which can be a remarkable …
Read More »Ukrainians Dream of Normal Life After a Year of War. They Know It May Never Return
KYIV — It is remarkable how much the snow dampens sound. On the second day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a gentle snowfall blanketed the city of Kharkiv, where I was when the war began. From the balcony of my hotel, I listened to muffled thumps of artillery in the …
Read More »'Cocaine Bear' Has More Coke and Gore Than a Night With Charlie Sheen
The story writes itself. A drug smuggler found dead in a Knoxville, Tennessee, driveway back in 1985, with a failed parachute and a large duffel bag of cocaine by his side. A black bear found months later, also dead (“Nothing left but bones and a big hide,” the Georgia Bureau …
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