If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s become custom for Saks to ring in each New York Fashion Week with a bar-setting bash featuring some of music’s hottest stars — this cycle was no …
Read More »Life Is Beautiful Day One: Arctic Monkeys, Charli XCX and Wet Leg Shine
Life Is Beautiful kicked off on Friday in the heart of Las Vegas, with thousands of festival-goers scurrying to the Sin City for the buzzy three-day show that turns Vegas’s eclectic downtown into a psychedelic desert amusement park. The Life Is Beautiful footprint takes up 18 blocks of downtown Las …
Read More »Lollapalooza 2022 Day Four: J-Hope Makes History, Green Day Go Big, Charli XCX Transforms
It’s a wrap. On Sunday, the fourth and final day of Lollapalooza 2022 commenced in Chicago’s Grant Park, and it was a day that made history, literally. Headliners included J-Hope, Green Day, and Denzel Curry, and surprise guests who made appearances throughout the day included Billy Corgan, Chance the Rapper, …
Read More »Icona Pop and Charli XCX Still Don't Care on 10th Anniversary Remix of 'I Love It'
Icona Pop and Charli XCX have reunited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their inescapable 2012 hit, “I Love It.” Ahead of the song’s official anniversary — June 14 — the Swedish duo and British pop star released “I Love It (I Don’t Care 2022 Re-Edit),” which was remixed by …
Read More »Charli XCX Protégé Elio Learns to 'Luv My Brain' on Dreamy Bop
Your fave pop girlies love her and you should, too. On Friday, Elio — the British songstress behind songs like “@elio.irl” and “Jackie Onassis” — dropped her sweet, dreamy single “Luv My Brain,” the second taste of her upcoming mixtape, Elio’s Inferno, whichRolling Stone can exclusively announce. “I Luv My …
Read More »A Grisly Murder Disrupts a Rich Kid Party in the New Trailer for 'Bodies Bodies Bodies'
A creepy party game turns into a grisly, satirical whodunnit in the new trailer for Bodies Bodies Bodies, set to arrive in theaters Aug. 5. The film centers around a group of rich 20-somethings who decamp to a regal estate to wait out a hurricane. But after one of the …
Read More »Charli XCX Parties as Marie Antoinette, Blasphemously Sexy Monk in 'Used to Know' Video
Charli XCX embraces transformation in the new music video for her Crash track, “Used to Know.” “Used to Know,” with its sample of the Robin S. house classic “Show Me Love,” is an anthem for post break-up freedom, and the clip finds Charli fully embracing that liberation. The clip follows …
Read More »Charli XCX Outsmarts the Pop Machine on 'Crash'
It’s been flat-out exhilarating to watch Charli XCX elude conventional stardom for so many years. Though she’s thrown some tracks into the commercial vortex, she’s been too much of a free-thinking weirdo to let her boundless creativity get crushed out by mainstream expectations. Instead, she found a way to feed …
Read More »Charli XCX Tells Fans She's Living Her 'Best Life' After Dropping TikTok-Ready 'Baby'
Last month, Charli XCX told Rolling Stone that she’sready for her “main pop-girl moment” — and with the drop of her newest single “Baby,” it appears that moment has arrived for the 29-year-old singer. The suggestive single, which appears on Charli’s upcoming record Crash, is accompanied by a music video …
Read More »Charli XCX Confirms She Dropped Out of NFT Festival After Fan Backlash
Charli XCX confirmed that she pulled out of an NFT festival — a booking that originally sparked controversy among her fans — in a new digital cover story for Rolling Stone UK. The festival in question is Afterparty, an event taking place in Las Vegas later this month with headlining …
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