Justin Bieber has published another semi-cryptic Instagram Story revealing candid reflections on external perceptions and expectations. Last week, he wrote about feeling like a fraud, admitting he often feels “unequipped and unqualified” after years of people telling him he’s deserving of all that he has. This week, Bieber is ruminating …

At 5 p.m. on Friday, March 7, Donald Trump’s Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a change in policy that could easily bankrupt some of the program’s senior beneficiaries. The agency will now revert back to a more punishing policy that some Republican members of Congress previously publicly opposed — a …

E verywhere she goes, Michelle Buteau has a rapt audience. On a Wednesday afternoon in January, we’re at a double-­duty gay bar and gastropub in Brooklyn, talking over shoestring fries and coffee about her most recent stand-up special, which dropped New Year’s Eve on Netflix. Titled A Buteau-ful Mind, it …

Charli XCX is bringing the ultimate party to London’s Victoria Park on June 14. The musician will take the stage as part of LIDO Festival, but she’s rebranding the day-long event into her very own Party Girl Festival. Her special guests for the show include Gesaffelstein, Magdalena Bay, 070 Shake, …

John Oliver reflected on the recent controversy around Mel Gibson on Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight. The late-night host recapped the news about U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer, who wrote in a column for Rolling Stone that she was fired after refusing to allow the right-wing actor to have …

Julien Baker teamed up with Jasmine.4.t for a rendition of System of a Down‘s 2001 single “Toxicity” at SXSW. Baker joined the British musician and her band for a raucous take on the hard rock track during Jasmine.4.t’s set at the Austin festival. Before launching into the cover, the musician …

Dolly Parton made her first public appearance since the death of her husband, Carl Dean, and took the opportunity to reflect on what he meant to her. The singer took the stage at the 40th anniversary celebration of her Dollywood theme park in Tennessee to speak and perform. After thanking …

Leave it to A$AP Rocky to make a grand entrance. On Saturday, the rapper arrived to his headlining show at Rolling Loud California 2025 by helicopter. His set opened with video screens broadcasting footage from A$AP Rocky’s recent trial (he was found not guilty on two firearm assault charges in …

“You don’t know about me without having heard a band by the name of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but that’s okay,” Mike Campbell writes in the introduction to his new book Heartbreaker: A Memoir (out March 18). “We played rock and roll together for a long time. So much …

O ne of Jesse Morris’ earliest memories is sitting on his father’s shoulders at the church on Webster Street, in Oregon, Illinois, waiting for his pastor to rise from the dead. On an early spring night in 1992, about 75 people were packed under the high vaulted ceiling of the …