Happy 20th birthday to Britney Spears’ debut album …Baby One More Time, released on January 12th, 1999 — a truly avant-garde full-length that permanently changed how music sounded. The Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync were having hits already, but they were doing straight-up mainstream pop compared to the alien apocalyptic robot-disco …

Joy Williams will undertake a U.S. tour in February in support of her upcoming album Front Porch. While no release date has been set for the LP, she has shared the tracks “Canary” and “The Trouble With Wanting,” and this week unveiled a live cover of a Nineties gem: Depeche …

A barroom brawl propels Frank Castle into a gritty new mystery in the trailer for Season Two of Marvel‘s The Punisher, whichreturns to Netflix January 18th. The new season starts with Castle (Jon Bernthal) criss-crossing America and grappling with his double-identity as the vigilante hero, the Punisher. One night at …

Nestled among thick Redwood trees nearly 300 miles north of San Francisco is one of the most prolific cannabis producing regions in the United States: Humboldt County. Long known for its cultivation of the plant, Humboldt is one-third of the famed “Emerald Triangle” of Northern California (Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity …

President Trump on Tuesday night addressed the nation from the Oval Office for the first time since assuming the presidency two years ago this month. The topic was border security, particularly the president’s belief that the only way to achieve it is through the construction of a literal wall separating …

Taylor Bennett pulled out a slew of rockstar tricks while performing his new single, “Streaming Services,” on The Late Show Monday. The new track finds Bennett taking stock of the music industry and his place in it as an independent artist. On The Late Show, the young singer-rapper breezed through …

Remember the scene in A Star Is Born where Lady Gaga is onstage at the Grammys and Bradley Cooper collapses in a boozy stupor and she tells the audience how much fun they’re having? The 2019 Golden Globes made that moment last over three hours. That’s the point — this …

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the youngest woman elected to the House of Representatives, has been the target of several conservative smear campaigns — including attacks on her pro-working-class agenda (she dared to grow up in a single-story house!) to “Sandy,” her suspiciously Anglophone teenage nickname. (To think a Puerto Rican …

Hip-hop dominated music streaming in 2017, leading to some eye-popping record deals for rising stars — $8 million for Lil Pump, $10 million for XXXTentacion before his death, another $15 million for Brockhampton. That wasn’t a one-year spurt in listening, according to the new year-end report published on Thursday by …

Hip-Hop‘s New Generation Takes Over The year in hip-hop made one thing blindingly clear: The old guard is, well, old. Kanye West executive-produced five albums over the summer, but it took a Lil Pump feature to get him any traction on streaming services. Nicki Minaj needed a duet with embattled …