Bono and Joe Rogan clashed over the humanitarian impact of DOGE’s cuts — specifically the planned gutting of USAID — during the U2 singer’s visit to the podcast Friday. During the episode, Bono confronted Rogan — a friend of the now-outgoing DOGE head Elon Musk — about a study that …
Read More »Our Favorite Afropop Songs and Albums of 2025 So Far
I have the pleasure of living in the big, busy, diverse, and very diasporic city of Atlanta, where the summertime lituations are about to get very real. There are a ton of great DJs in town spinning all sorts of Afropop and adjacent genres all year long – Afrobeats, amapiano, …
Read More »Documentary About Blackpink's Lisa in Production From Director Sue Kim
K-Pop star Lisa, best known as one of the members of Blackpink, will be the subject of a new documentary film from Sony Music Vision and director Sue Kim. During a presentation of the film at the Sony Music Vision upfront last night, Kim confirmed she worked with Lisa for …
Read More »Conan Gray Teases New Album With 'This Song' — and Sets Fall Tour
Conan Gray took a detour into retro, bombastic synth-pop with last year’s Found Heaven, and his new single, “This Song,” is yet another evolution — a melancholy, indie-ish, string-enhanced mid-tempo track with production by Phoebe Bridgers collaborator Ethan Gruska. The song is the first release from Gray’s next album, Wishbone, …
Read More »No One Does Comforting Sadness Like Matt Berninger
“Maybe after once in a lifetime, we’ll figure out what we lost,” Matt Berninger sings on “No Love,” a reflective, lachrymose highlight from his second solo album. The National frontman sounds like he could spend several lifetimes pondering that question. On Get Sunk, he continues to work the same tastefully …
Read More »His Song 'Married in a Year' Is a Runaway Meme. He's Just Stoked People Are Singing Along
In today’s fast-paced digital world, posting a video of yourself is tantamount to signing an ironclad agreement that whatever happens next is far, far out of your control. And even if he didn’t know it at the time, Brendan Abernathy quickly learned that lesson last week when his mom sent …
Read More »Carlos Santana Says 'Me Retiro' Is 'Just the Beginning' of Collabs With Grupo Frontera
Carlos Santana and Grupo Frontera unlocked something within each other while creating their first collaboration, “Me Retiro.” The single combines the guitarist’s weighted influence with the música mexicana group’s steadfast ambition. Edgar Barrera, who wrote and produced the song, is responsible for bringing them together. “It’s always a surreal moment …
Read More »Florence Pugh Looks for the Light in Yungblud's Video for 'Zombie'
Yungblud has shared a music video for his song “Zombie,” which stars Florence Pugh. The video, directed by Charlie Sarsfield, sees the Thunderbolts actress embodying a doctor in the British NHS as she helps patients. She’s steadfast at work, but breaks down at home, with the video showcasing her with …
Read More »Taylor Swift Finally Owns All of Her Old Music
Taylor Swift has regained control of her recorded music catalog six years after her old label, Big Machine Label Group, sold it to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings. The singer announced the purchase in a lengthy letter, writing, “All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.“ Swift announced …
Read More »Sean Combs' Ex-Assistant Says He Terrorized Her With Threats
Follow all our Sean Combs trial coverage Sean Combs’ former personal assistant Mia took the stand for a second day Friday, telling jurors the music mogul terrorized her with onslaughts of hostile messages, threatened to “frame” his alleged sexual assaults of her as consensual, and once kicked her off a …
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