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Young Thug’s rise in pop culture stemmed from the “post-verbal” brilliance of his indecipherable yet captivating delivery; he has now plummeted to a low point in his career, thanks to crystal-clear audio clips that seemingly expose him going against his own word. Since being released from jail on a plea …

Get ready to do the Dead Dance. Lady Gaga today officially released her infectious soundtrack contribution to Wednesday Season Two, titled “The Dead Dance,” which she (and the Netflix show) have been teasing for weeks. The song was written and produced by Lady Gaga, Andrew Watt, and Henry Walter (known …

The Fugees’ Pras Michel underwent emergency surgery for colon cancer last week, postponing legal proceedings in his foreign lobbying and conspiracy case. Michel was convicted back in 2023 on an array of charges — such as money laundering, illegal lobbying, witness tampering, and campaign finance violations — for his role …

For Sombr, performing his hit breakup lament “Back to Friends” each night means revisiting “a really dark point” of his life, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. “Every night when I play it, I relive everything I was feeling that night when I wrote it,” he says as …

T he year was 2000. Y2K came and went, and a group of four childhood best friends had something more important to worry about now: middle school. Would boys like them? Would they be popular? Would they stick together? That summer, they found a way to briefly escape the future. …

Karly Hartzman, the lead singer and songwriter for the band Wednesday, finds inspiration pretty much where she goes. “I’m always just on like a continuous writing mode. I write whenever I get even the slightest feeling. Whenever I feel inspired by something I’m experiencing or remembering or watching or reading, …

Green Day fans in Santiago, Chile got to witness a historic performance on Saturday night. The Billie Joe Armstrong-fronted group revived a catalog classic, “Haushinka,” for the first time in 28 years during a performance at Parque Estadio Nacional. The group snuck in the Nimrod deep cut into the set …

Does Francis Ford Coppola thrive on chaos? Not exactly, the director claims in the new trailer for Megadoc, Mike Figgis’ behind-the-scenes documentary on the tumultuous making of Coppola’s 2024 film Megalopolis: “I’m confronting chaos.” Coppola spent $120 million of his own money on Megalopolis, a script he’d been working on …

Taylor Swift headlining the Super Bowl halftime show has been one of those things that’s seemed so obvious for so long it’s a shock it hasn’t happened (soft drink sponsorship deals aside, of course). Over the past few years, especially, her name has been bandied about as a likely prospect, …

Kelsea Ballerini is almost like an honorary Jonas sister. Just a handful of years after opening for the group on their 2021 tour, the country star joined Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas for a pair of performances during the group’s show in Dallas on Sunday. “We had the wonderful pleasure …