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 …
Read More »Drake Talks Swedish Jail, Fake Abs, and Friendship Breakups With Bobbi Althoff
It appears that all is well between Drake and Bobbi Althoff. The podcast host and content creator went viral in 2023 when Drizzy appeared on her show, The Really Good Podcast, setting off a spree of other rapper interviews — including Lil Yachty, YG, and Offset — as well as …
Read More »Four Best Friends Made an Album as Kids. 25 Years Later, It's a Cult Classic
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. …
Read More »Fifth Harmony Reunite After 7 Years During Jonas Brothers Concert
Fifth Harmony are back! On Sunday night, the iconic girl group reunited after seven years to join the Jonas Brothers onstage during their concert in Dallas. Normani, Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane, and Lauren Jauregui — in matching black outfits — emerged from behind smoke to the tune of “Worth It,” …
Read More »Sting vs. the Police: Their Never-Ending War Over 'Every Breath You Take'
Everybody knows “Every Breath You Take.” It’s the biggest hit the Police ever had, one of the most famous tunes of the Eighties. It spent 8 weeks at Number One in the classic pop summer of 1983. In 2019, BMI officially proclaimed it “the Most Played Song in radio history,” …
Read More »Asleep at the Wheel Still Have That Texas Swing
When Asleep at the Wheel decided to record a record of Texas-centric songs to commemorate the Western swing outfit spending 50 of its 55 years in the Lone Star State, Ray Benson had a simple request: “Let’s just do songs about Texas that mean something to you.” The result is …
Read More »Katrina Ravaged New Orleans' Arts Community. It Also Revitalized It
When Tarriona “Tank” Ball and her family evacuated New Orleans in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, she had no idea just how much her life was about to change. The lead vocalist and frontperson of the Grammy-winning band Tank and the Bangas, Ball was only a senior …
Read More »Afrobeats Foremother Tiwa Savage Reigns and Reels on 'This One is Personal'
Tiwa Savage takes our Zoom call from Tokyo at around 7 a.m. local time, her voice sweet but groggy from having just woken up moments before. She had spent the past week in Japan for her son Jamil’s tenth birthday. “It’s both of our first time,” she tells me of …
Read More »Thurston Moore on His New Velvets Tribute — and Why There's No Sonic Youth Reunion
As hard as it is to believe, Sonic Youth played their final show 14 years ago this fall, instigated by the breakup of co-founders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. In the years since, they’ve each continued working on many fronts: Gordon was nominated for a Grammy this year for her …
Read More »Sabrina Carpenter, Hayley Williams, Alabama Shakes, and All the Songs You Need to Know
Sabrina Carpenter sends a disco invite to a responsible guy on a sweet single from her new Man’s Best Friend, Hayley Williams falls through the sky on a sleek, urgent gem off her new Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, and Alabama Shakes return with their first new song in …
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