My Chemical Romance brought out surprise guest Billy Corgan to perform “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” during their concert Friday in the Smashing Pumpkins’ native Chicago. Prior to the performance, singer Gerard Way spoke of his love for the Pumpkins, and how seeing the band’s tour around Mellon Collie and the …
Read More »The Beaches Bring a Pop Party to Rolling Stone's Gather No Moss Tour
If anyone was going to be salty about their breakups going into Labor Day weekend, it’s certainly not the Beaches. All four members of Toronto’s casually cool indie-pop band —lead singer and bassist Jordan Miller, guitarists Kylie Miller and Leandra Earl, and drummer Eliza Enman-McDaniel — traded brokenhearted resentment and …
Read More »Cradle of Filth Singer Issues Statement Addressing Former Bandmates' Accusations
Cradle of Filth singer Dani Filth issued a lengthy statement Friday addressing the abrupt exit of the band’s guitarist and keyboardist, as well as their parting accusations of low pay, “unprofessional behavior,” and other “foolish clown antics.” Singer and keyboardist Zoë M. Federofffirst announced her departure from Cradle of Filth …
Read More »Blink-182 Play 'Take Off Your Pants and Jacket' Rarities for First Time Since 2001 at Tour Opener
Blink-182 appear to be digging into their bountiful bag of deep cuts for their latest tour, with the band playing a handful of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket gems for the first time in over 20 years. On Thursday, at the kick-off for their “Missionary Impossible Tour” (yes, they’re …
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 …
Read More »Kacey Musgraves and Carin León Fall in Love in Spanglish on 'Lost in Translation'
Carin León and Kacey Musgraves don’t need to speak the same language to tell a cross-cultural love story. On Friday, the Mexican star and country queen released “Lost in Translation,” a norteño-influenced ranchera track in English and Spanish on which the pair sing about a love that defeats language barriers. …
Read More »Jessie J Cancels U.S. Tour Ahead of Surgery Amid Cancer Recovery: 'I Feel Frustrated and Sad'
Jessie J announced that all U.S. dates of her No Secrets tour have been cancelled and that she has postponed her U.K. and European shows ahead of her second surgery after her breast cancer diagnoses. The singer announced the news in a post shared to Instagram on Thursday. She began …
Read More »Megan Thee Stallion Lawyers Say Tory Lanez Rep Rolled Blunt, Walked Out of 'Uncivil' Deposition
The Tory Lanez spokesman, whose legal non-profit represents Lanez inhis criminal appeal,was “utterly disrespectful” and allegedly rolled a “marijuana cigarette” during his recent deposition in Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation lawsuit against YouTube blogger Milagro Gramz, a new court filing claims. Megan’s lawyers are now asking that the rep, Ceasar McDowell, …
Read More »Lady Gaga Reveals 'The Dead Dance' Release Date for 'Wednesday' Season 2
Lady Gaga announced that her new single “The Dead Dance” — set to feature on the wildly popular Netflix show Wednesday — will release on Sept. 3, the same day Part Two of the series drops. Reposting a photo of herself on X at Spotify and Netflix’s Wednesday Graveyard Gala …
Read More »Sabrina Carpenter Has Sex on the Brain, and 4 Other Takeaways From 'Man's Best Friend'
Sabrina Carpenter tried to warn you. “The album is not for any pearl clutchers,” the “Espresso” pop goddess told Gayle King, before dropping her new album, the hotly awaited Man’s Best Friend. And she wasn’t kidding about that. Sabrina has returned with her most libidinally charged, riotously funny album — …
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