K-pop heartthrob Wonho is back with a new album — and a new attitude — as he looks to make some big moves in North America this year. The singer’s new mini-album, Facade, dropped June 14, with five tracks showcasing a mix of slow-burn R&B and groovy dancefloor bangers. For …
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F or just an hour, Megan Thee Stallion’s world shrinks to the size of a Los Angeles escape room. Here, on this April evening, there are no festivals to rehearse for, no verses to perfect, no brand deals to broker, no rumors to right or trauma to relive or pretrial …
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In a particularly ominous moment from Hulu‘s new documentary Look at Me: XXXTentacion, we see a 19-year-old Jahseh Onfroy, a.k.a. XXXTentacion, make an official-sounding announcement on his Instagram. “I’m going to stop calling you guys fans,” he says. “I’m going to start calling you members of my cult. This is …
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Bea Kristi was tripping so hard, she was seeing things. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter had just finished her debut set at Coachella back in April and decided to take shrooms, as one does at a music festival. It was the first time she’d done them outside of her hometown of London, …
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If you’re looking for a soundtrack to any road trips in your future, you could do worse than Love Is Yours, the second full-length from Flasher. “I think of it as a summer record,” says singer and guitarist Taylor Mulitz, 31. “I imagine myself, and hopefully other people, listening to …
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When comic-book legend Grant Morrison met up with me in their hometown of Glasgow, Scotland, for an in-depth Rolling Stone profile back in 2011, they ended up dropping what would become awidely cited quote on the absurdities of asking for realism in superhero stories: “You give an adult fiction,” said …
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Festival season is officially back in full effect this summer, after disappearing in 2020 and making a sometimes tentative return in 2021. That joyful reality couldn’t have been clearer as Governors Ball returned to New York’s Citi Field for three days of music, headlined by Halsey, Kid Cudi, J. Cole …
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One of Sunny Singh’s proudest moments as a videographer was the night he got punched in the face with his own camera. Singh — who for the past decade-plus has singlehandedly built up one of the web’s most robust and widely admired archives of live-music footage on his hate5six YouTube …
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Where have you gone, American Idol? A nation turns its lonely eyes to … wait, seriously? You’re still on? Believe it or not, it’s true. Idol has survived long enough to see its 20th birthday. When it debuted on June 11, 2002, the TV singing contest was the blockbuster that …
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The new documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song is arriving on July 1, and there’s a premiere party this Sunday evening at New York’s Beacon Theatre featuring performances by Judy Collins, Amanda Shires, Sharon Robinson, and Why Don’t We’s Daniel Seavey. Directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller, …
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