Mariah Carey has announced her 16th album, Here for It All, the long-awaited follow-up album to 2018’s Caution. She unveiled the news on Monday morning, July 21, with an Instagram video. In the clip, she reveals that Here for It All, which had been referred to as MC16 in the …
Read More »Justin Bieber Wasn't Melting Down — He Was Locked In
In between standing on business in paparazzi clashes and dodging endless rumors about his personal life, it turns out Justin Bieber was busy in the studio, making a genuinely interesting album. Swag is full of well-chosen collaborators — Gunna, Sexyy Red, Cash Cobain, Lil B, Dijon—confessional lyrics, and even surprisingly self-aware skits recorded …
Read More »Thelonious Monk, the Teenage Weirdo, and the Battle Over a Lost Sonic Masterpiece
T he greatest lost concert in American history almost never happened at all. It was Oct. 27, 1968, in Palo Alto, California. Outside of his high school, Danny Scher, a 16-year-old, bushy-haired, jazz-obsessed, self-described “weirdo,” was pacing the parking lot waiting for his hero, and music’s most elusive and enigmatic …
Read More »Epstein Accuser Twice Told FBI About His Ties to Trump
Maria Farmer twice reported Donald Trump‘s connection with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to the FBI, shining light on how the president may be mentioned in the Epstein files held by the Justice Department. Farmer, who worked for Epstein and recently spoke to The New York Times, first went to law …
Read More »Travis Scott's 'Jackboys 2' Tops Albums Chart
Travis Scott and his Jackboys collective’s compilation album Jackboys 2 debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Billboard reports. It earned 232,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Of those, 72,000 comprise streaming equivalent albums (SEA) equaling 94.68 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs, according …
Read More »Rep. Jasmine Crockett: 'Wannabe Hitler' Trump Is Demanding GOP 'Loyalty' Over Epstein Files
Donald Trump‘s demands for loyalty are so extreme, he comes off as a “wannabe Hitler,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett. The congresswoman made the remarks when discussing Republican efforts to stop the Jeffrey Epstein files from being released, per Trump’s wishes. “[Republican lawmakers] want to show they’re loyal to this, you …
Read More »Behind the Scenes of 'Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari'
There was a lot that filmmaker Dani Sloane was drawn to when she first read Matt Sullivan’s 2022 Rolling Stone feature “Before the Dentist Knows You’re Dead,” about the death of Bianca Rudolph, allegedly at the hands of her husband, Larry. “It was before any verdict was issued,” she remembers. …
Read More »Chris Martin Jokingly Warns Fans About 'Jumbotron Song' at First Coldplay Gig Since Viral Moment
Chris Martin jokingly warned fans about Coldplay’s “The Jumbotron Song” during the band’s first concert since capturing a now-infamous moment at a Boston-area show earlier this week. “The Jumbotron Song” had been a stalwart of Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres Tour, but the performance went viral this week when it …
Read More »Trump Demands Sports Teams Make Their Names Racist Again
Likely trying to deflect from the current disaster that is his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files and revelations about his relationship with the deceased sex trafficker, Donald Trump is trying to bully sports teams into restoring their old, racist team names. “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change …
Read More »Trump and the Catholic Church Fight a Law Requiring Clergy to Report Child Abuse
On the morning of May 2, 2025, supporters of Washington Senate Bill 5375 were ushered through the massive concrete arches and up the grand staircases of the Washington state Capitol — the veins of Alaskan Tokeen marble guiding them past oil portraits and century-old busts — to the governor’s conference …
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