Howie Pyro, a founding member of New York City punk band D Generation, pioneering party DJ, and avid collector of music and movie ephemera, died Wednesday. He was 61. Pyro had undergone a liver transplant last year and was recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. Jesse Malin, Pyro’s friend and …

Alec Baldwin has won dismissal of a $25 million defamation lawsuit filed by the relatives of a Marine killed in Afghanistan during the attack at the Kabul Airport last August. The legal action, filed in federal court in Wyoming, noted the actor initially donated $5,000 to the family of Lance …

The Jan. 6 committee has a subpoena for the former head of the pro-MAGA social network Parler who claims he was fired from the company in 2021 in part because of his push to remove extremists from the platform, according to two sources familiar with the matter. John Matze, the …

When Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey announced that their long-delayed, highly anticipated new album, No Fear of Time, was to be released through Luminary’s podcasting network, the news signaled an impossible-to-ignore, best-of-both-worlds scenario. In choosing to distribute their follow-up to 1998’s Talib Kweli and Mos Def Are Black Star through …

Once-loyal deputies continue to turn on Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. A third Oath Keepers militiaman entered a guilty plea on Wednesday for participating in a “seditious conspiracy” to keep Donald Trump in office by use of force — a plot allegedly masterminded by Rhodes. William Todd Wilson, 45, is …

In spite of Dolly Parton’s initial misgivings about accepting a nomination to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the country music icon is officially going to become a member: Her name was among those in the Class of 2022 announced on Wednesday morning. “I am honored and humbled by …

Hip-hop pioneer Kidd Creole, who was an original member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death in 2017. Born Nathaniel Glover, the artist was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter last month. He was convicted of stabbing …

The brother of the man arrested for the onstageassault of Dave Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl says he’s stunned by the incident – and he wants people to know his younger sibling has struggled with mental health issues and being unhoused. Police say Isaiah Lee, 23, stormed the stage Tuesday …

Actress Lili Reinhart appeared to call out Kim Kardashian, suggesting the star’s effort to lose 16 pounds in three weeks to fit into her Met Gala dress was “so fucked on 100s of levels.” Reinhart voiced her criticism in a series of now-vanished (but saved via Buzzfeed) posts on Instagram …

A Texas pastor has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Kanye West over a sample featured in the song “Come to Life.” Bishop David P. Moten alleges that about 20% of the Donda single is lifted from a sermon he delivered at Victoria, Texas’ the Joy of the Lord Worship …