Pink will no longer perform in Bern, Switzerland, today after being advised by doctors to take a pause. “I am so sorry that I have had to cancel my show in Bern this Wednesday,” the singer wrote on Instagram. “I do everything I can to ensure I can perform for …
Read More »Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore on All Those 'Goo' Memes: 'Nothing Is Sacred'
In a news photo circulated two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Untook turns driving a Russian-made limo in Pyongyang, North Korea. The sight of two dictators tooling around was unsettling — but also ripe for a particular type of mockery. Soon after the photo appeared, a meme began …
Read More »Travis Kelce Reveals He Was the Mastermind Behind His Eras Tour Appearance With Taylor Swift
Travis Kelce orchestrated his onstage debut during Taylor Swift‘s recent Eras tour performance in London himself. During a new episode of his podcast New Heights, the Kansas City Chiefs player revealed that he jokingly floated the idea of making an appearance during the 1989 portion of the show, which got …
Read More »Niall Horan Had to Walk to His Toronto Show Because of Traffic
The constant social (not to mention ecological) chaos wrought upon humanity by the automobile industry hit Niall Horan hard ahead of his show in Toronto last week. The musician found himself stuck in a traffic jam so brutal he decided to hop out of his car and walk to the …
Read More »The National Have Noticed Some 'Bewildered' Taylor Swift Fans (and Way More Women) at Their Shows
Taylor Swift‘s collaborative partnership with Aaron Dessner has led some Swifties from the Eras tour straight to the National‘s concerts. The pair first began collaborating on 2020’s Folklore, which featured the band’s instrumentalist and producer on nearly a dozen songs. They most recently teamed up on selections from The Tortured …
Read More »Rihanna Knew It Was 'Hypocritical,' But She Still Asked GloRilla When Her Album Was Dropping
Oh, how the proverbial tables have turned: About a year ago, Rihanna was in GloRilla’s DMs asking the question she’s been more or less dodging since 2016: When’s the album coming out? On Instagram yesterday, GloRilla posted a bunch of photos from a recent party held in her honor. But …
Read More »How Daddy Yankee's 'Gasolina' Fueled Reggaeton's Global Takeover
Daddy Yankee’s original plan was to become a baseball player. When a stray bullet hit him, he pivoted to focusing on his other passion: music. The Puerto Rican star ended up becoming an integral part of the creation and explosion of reggaeton, a Spanish-language genre that fuses elements of dancehall …
Read More »Lana Del Rey and Quavo Are Countryside-Living Lovers on 'Tough'
Lana Del Rey and Quavo are a country-loving, shotgun-shooting couple on their country-rap collaboration, “Tough.” The track dropped Wednesday afternoon. “Tough like the scuff on a pair of old leather boots/Like the blue-collar, red-dirt attitude,” sings Del Rey on the song’s chorus. “Like a .38 made out of brass/Tough like …
Read More »It's the Lainey Wilson Revue in New Video for 'Hang Tight Honey'
Lainey Wilson leans into the vintage vibes of music revues in the new video for “Hang Tight Honey,” a rambunctious travelogue clip that follows the country star and her band through a performance and on the road. The video has two main setups. The first casts Wilson as a Sixties-style …
Read More »Hootie Babylon! Darius Rucker Tells All
Which Nineties band once dropped $32,000 to buy a dealer’s entire supply of Ecstasy at once? The answer would’ve been hard to guess at the height of their fame, but the culprits were the seemingly clean-cut dudes in Hootie and the Blowfish —who, as frontman Darius Rucker reveals in his …
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