In their early days of touring, every night was a party for Mayday Parade. The Tallahassee pop-punkers would hit a new city, play for small yet impassioned crowds, make friends with the locals — and always find a place to party (and crash) at night. In the morning, all five …

Japanese Breakfast brought the “Melancholy Inn” to Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday night with a performance of “Picture Window.” The track appears on Japanese Breakfast’s latest album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) — hence the neon “Melancholy Inn” sign casting its blue glow on Michelle Zauner and the rest of …

About halfway into an acceptance speech at a Beverly Hills awards ceremony Thursday night, Stevie Nicks revealed that she’s recording new music. “I’m actually making a record right now,” she said. “I call it ‘The Ghost Record,’ because it just kind of happened in the last couple weeks, because you …

The Department of Health and Human Services was by no means spared the hatchet job by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE), and big changes are coming to food safety standards and communications over public health risks — and not in a good way. According to a Thursday report …

When 5 million demonstrators flooded the streets for the national “Hands Off!” protests on April 5 — demonstrating against the unconstitutional actions and authoritarian aims of the Trump administration — a large fraction were mobilized by a leaderless grassroots collective that didn’t even exist at the start of 2025. It’s …

For documentary filmmaker Randall MacLowry, the Black folk hero John Henry was a natural subject. The mythical 19th-century figure who helped install railroad tracks by way of his sledgehammer skills, Henry has been saluted in literature (Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days), dance (part of a program by the Alvin Ailey …

At times of political and cultural upset, literature has often been a way for society to process, understand, and push back against unethical policies or administrations. Many of the most well known books are direct political statements, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, and Harper Lee’s To …

After reviewing the body camera footage from his recent arrest, Haley Joel Osment has apologized for his use of “disgraceful language” — including antisemitic language — when being detained for alleged public intoxication and possession of an unidentified controlled substance at a California ski resort. “I’m absolutely horrified by my …

Talk to Tinashe for long enough, and Call of Duty: Warzone is likely to come up. She mentioned her love of gaming whenRolling Stonecaught up with her in October, talked aboutWarzonewithBillboardin August, and played the game with the YouTube channelGaming While Blackback in 2022. So, it’s no surprise that Call …

It’s not hard to spot the hardcore fans at U2 shows. They’re the ones wearing vintage Lovetown Tour T-shirts who scream louder for “Acrobat” than “Pride (In the Name of Love),” call out guitar tech Dallas Schoo by name when he brings the Edge a new instrument, and leap into …