Franklin Jonas was just a teenager when his dad was being treated for cancer. To cheer him up, he’d sit by his bedside, playing songs for him. “I would make just the worst trap beats for him,” Jonas recalls over Zoom. “And he liked them for some reason.” Back then, …
Read More »Lizzo Brings 'Special' Performance to 2023 Brit Awards
Lizzo took to the 2023 Brit Awards stage to drop a medley of her hits from 2022 album, Special, on Saturday. The set included “Special,” “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready),” and “About Damn Time.” Dressed in a pink ensemble with a dramatic, towering pink collar and surrounded by a …
Read More »Harry Styles Thanks One Direction, Calls Out Male Privilege at Brit Awards
Harry Styles swept all four of the categories he was nominated in during the 2023 Brit Awards, paid homage to those that got him to this point, and acknowledged that while the awards ceremony was working to be inclusionary — going gender neutral a year ago — it ended up …
Read More »U.S. Fighter Aircraft Shoot Down Another Unidentified Airborne Object
U.S. fighter aircraft shot down an unidentified, high-altitude airborne object, which violated Canadian airspace on Saturday, according to U.S. and Canadian officials. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he ordered the object be downed on Saturday. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) fired at the object while it was above …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Pink spent an hour with Kelly Clarkson on the latter’s eponymous talk show last week, and while Pink was there to promote her new album, Trustfall, the audience …
Read More »Rihanna's True Musical Comeback Is Imminent, But Did She Ever Really Leave?
An omnipresent force, Rihanna has managed to be inescapable since the release of her eighth and most recent studio album Anti in 2016, while also being perpetually hounded about when her grand return to music would finally arrive. For the first few years following the record, the singer’s trajectory followed …
Read More »Breland Gets Philly Fired Up for Super Bowl LVII With 'Do It for the Birds' Hype Video
Breland may call Nashville home, but the country/hip-hop artist was raised in New Jersey, just across the river from Philadelphia. Naturally, he’s an Eagles fan and on Friday he joined Philly’s Andie Summers, the 2022 CMA Award-winning DJ of country station 92.5 WXTU, to drop a hype video ahead of …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Wants to Haul Big Pharma in Front of Congress
Bernie Sanders is living, as he puts it, in a “two-fold world.” “On the one hand, I’m trying to do what I can in a bipartisan way,” he explains in the conference room of his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon. He brandishes a paper-clipped stack of printouts in my …
Read More »Super Bowl Stud Travis Kelce's Fun Dating Show, 'Catching Kelce,' Proved He's an MVP
What makes for an entertaining dating show? Is it a truly twisted concept, like keeping people physically separated in Love Is Blind, or making a bunch of horny moms go after each other’s adult sons in MILF Manor? Is it the assurance that attractive people will bang at some point, …
Read More »Hit Songwriters Tell All, from Thieving Artists to Grammy Snubs
The recording industry may slowly be waking up to the fact that some of its most important creators are wildly undervalued — one sign is the first-ever Songwriter of the Year Grammy, which Tobias Jesso, Jr. recently won for his behind-the-scenes work with Adele, Harry Styles, FKA Twigs, Omar Apollo, …
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