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Bono and Joe Rogan clashed over the humanitarian impact of DOGE’s cuts — specifically the planned gutting of USAID — during the U2 singer’s visit to the podcast Friday. During the episode, Bono confronted Rogan — a friend of the now-outgoing DOGE head Elon Musk — about a study that …

I have the pleasure of living in the big, busy, diverse, and very diasporic city of Atlanta, where the summertime lituations are about to get very real. There are a ton of great DJs in town spinning all sorts of Afropop and adjacent genres all year long – Afrobeats, amapiano, …

Follow all our Sean Combs trial coverage President Donald Trump said that he “would certainly look at the facts” when asked if he would consider pardoning Sean Combs, who’s currently on trial for federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Trump was asked about the possible pardon Friday, May 30, saying, …

It was one of the most ambitious musical endeavors ever, as well as one of the most implacable and successful: Taylor Swift’s decision to re-record her back catalog after Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired the rights to her first six albums when it purchased Swift’s old label, Big Machine. Swift …

After dropping his first solo album in 2010, Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine is continuing his late-blooming solo career with a new EP, Islands in the Sun. The standout track is “My Plane Leaves Tomorrow (Au Revoir),” on which Jardine trades lead vocals and harmonies with Neil Young — the …

Silvana Estrada won a dedicated following — and a Latin Grammy for Best New Artist — with her gorgeous 2022 debut album Marchita. She’s kept busy releasing songs and an EP since then and now, she’s back with her first single of 2025: “Como Un Pájaro,” a stunning contemplation of …

It happened — Taylor owns everything. All her songs, all her masters, her life’s work. She won. Eight years after her label Big Machine sold off her catalog, Taylor Swift has finally achieved her goal of buying it back herself. The most impossible battle of her career, the most invincible …

Addison Rae has dropped one more preview of her debut album Addison. “Fame Is a Gun” is the fifth single off her upcoming LP, which will be released on June 6th. On the shimmering new track, Rae basks in the glamorous life and the public’s adoration. “You know I keep …

Michael Sumler, who worked alongside funk legends Kool & the Gang as their hype man and was known as “Chicago Mike,” died in a car crash on Sunday in Georgia. He was 71. Local Atlanta television station 11Alive reported that Sumler was traveling on Veterans Memorial Highway in Cobb County …

ZZ Top announced Thursday that Frank Beard will rejoin the band for their summer tour following the drummer’s leave of absence due to a then-unspecified “health issue.” Beard missed the last two months of ZZ Top’s shows after suffering foot and ankle issuesthat have since been resolved, the group revealed …