The songs of Toby Keith are getting an update, just in time for the Fourth of July. On Tuesday, Apple Music announced a new collection of six Keith songs, reimagined by some of today’s rising country stars. Apple Music Nashville Sessions: Toby Keith Covered features Megan Moroney, Ella Langley, Riley …
Read More »The Beatles' Apple Corps Announces Its New CEO
The Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. has announced its new CEO, British executive Tom Greene. The Beatles originally founded Apple in 1968 to handle their creative and business interests, with their longtime friend and lieutenant Neil Aspinall as the first CEO. But Apple has kept busy in recent years, as the …
Read More »This Indie-Rap Hero Inspired Zohran Mamdani to Enter Politics
Earlier this month, Zohran Mamdani went on Hot 97, New York’s preeminent hip-hop radio station, to tell the story of how he first entered politics. It’s a tale he’s told many times: In 2015, Mamdani started knocking on doors for an aspiring Queens city councilman, Ali Najmi. But when he …
Read More »BTS Confirm 2026 Reunion With New Music and Tour
BTS are coming back! In their first collective WeVerse stream in nearly three years, the seven-piece supergroup revealed plans to officially return in 2026. That spring will see the arrival of the first BTS studio album since Be, which arrived in 2020, as well as the follow-up to their Permission …
Read More »Bono Addresses Fired USAID Staffers in Leaked Video: 'You Were The Best of Us'
George W. Bush has kept his feelings about Donald Trump’s policies almost completely to himself over the past decade, offering little more than a hushed “that was some weird shit” at the 2017 inauguration. But the Associated Press got their hands on footage from a recent private videoconference call where …
Read More »Green Day Fan Invited On Stage to Play 'Good Riddance,' Plays 'Wonderwall' Instead
If you’ve picked up a guitar for the first time in the last, say, three decades, odds are you’ve tried to learn Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” It’s a veritable alternative nation classic, as well as a guitar 101 standard. And so it’s no surprise that Green …
Read More »Hear Foo Fighters Return to Roots With 30th Anniversary Minor Threat Cover
Just after the 30th anniversary of the band’s 1995 self-titled debut album, Foo Fighters have unveiled a fierce cover of Minor Threat‘s hardcore classic “I Don’t Wanna Hear It” — with vocals recorded this year over an instrumental track that dates to ’95. The release appears to be part of …
Read More »Wigs, Vapes, and Elvis Dreams: Welcome to Remy Bond's Vintage Fantasy
T he doors of the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles felt like a vortex last Friday: Fans walked in wearing Hawaiian shirts, leis, and tropical flower clip-ins, ready to be transported into the Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii world of Remy Bond. A burlesque dancer opened the show, and for …
Read More »Charli XCX Responds to Criticism of Her Glastonbury Set: 'the Best Art Is Divisive'
Charli XCX has responded to the online critiques of her performance at Glastonbury on Saturday night. Following her set, which was broadcast live on BBC’s iPlayerin the U.K., many viewers took to social media to criticize her use of autotune and to call her “the worst performer.” In a series …
Read More »How Sabrina Carpenter Raised $1 Million for Charity
In a short and sweet 12 months, Sabrina Carpenter‘s charitable fund has surpassed $1 million in donations, establishing the Sabrina Carpenter Fund as the nonprofit PLUS1’s fastest-growing artist initiative to date. Carpenter’s fund supports three causes close to her heart: mental health advocacy, LGBTQ+ rights, and animal welfare, according to …
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