Tate McRae’s high-octane choreography and sultry pop vocals have led some people to compare the rising pop star to Britney Spears. In an interview with The Independent published on Sunday, McRae described the comparison as both “flattering” and “scary.” “It’s such a crazy statement because no one can compare to …
Read More »Neil Young Announces 2025 Love Earth World Tour
Neil Young and his new band, the Chrome Hearts, are hitting the road this summer for an extensive world tour in support of their upcoming LP, Talkin’ to the Trees. The tour kicks off June 18 in Rättvik, Sweden, and wraps up Sept. 15 in Los Angeles. A 48-hour presale …
Read More »Megan Thee Stallion Can Depose Tory Lanez in Prison, Judge Rules
Megan Thee Stallion won permission to question Tory Lanez under oath for the first time since he assaulted her with a semi-automatic firearm on a residential street in Los Angeles nearly five years ago. A federal judge signed off on the order Monday after the Grammy-winning rapper, born Megan Pete, …
Read More »Sam Fender Has the Working-Class Rock-Star Blues
To quote the Smiths, fame fame fatale fame, it can play hideous tricks on the brain. That’s what’s happening in the album-opening title track from People Watching, the third LP by U.K. pop-rock star Sam Fender. “I people watch on the way back home/Envious of the glimmer of hope/Gives me …
Read More »TikTok Users Can't Find the Beat to Hilary Duff's 'Come Clean'
Let the rain fall down, people on TikTok are coming clean: they lack rhythm, at least when it comes to Hilary Duff‘s “Come Clean.” The 2003 single, which was released on Duff’s album Metamorphosis, has been making the rounds on TikTok in a new trend where users try to clap …
Read More »Roberta Flack, Grammy-Winning Soul Singer, Dead at 88
Roberta Flack, the veteran Grammy-winning soul and R&B vocalist who recorded massive hits with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” died Monday at age 88. Elaine Schock, Flack’s representative, confirmed the singer’s death from cardiac arrest. “Roberta broke boundaries and records. …
Read More »Fyre Fest II Announces Allegedly Real Date, Allegedly Real Location, and Allegedly Real Tickets
For the morbidly curious and/or easily fooled music fan with anywhere from $1,400 to $1.1 million to spare, tickets for Fyre Festival II are on sale now. Billy McFarland, the convicted fraudster behind the infamous first Fyre Festival, finally revealed the details for his grand second attempt, which will apparently …
Read More »Drill Pioneer Young Chop Is Back on Some 'Cool Shit'
When I open my Zoom session with Chicago producer Young Chop, his display photo is a picture of him shirtless, flashing a wad of cash. “Boy, that ain’t never your Zoom picture!” his manager Jessie “Jay Boogie” Green jokes. Chop flashes a beaming grin when he turns his camera on, …
Read More »Brian Setzer Can No Longer Play Guitar After Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis
Brian Setzer, frontman for the Stray Cats and the Brian Setzer Orchestra, is unable to play guitar after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. The musician recently revealed his condition on Instagram, writing that he first noticed his “hands were cramping up” near the end of the Stray Cats’ most …
Read More »Jimmy Page on the 'Swagger' of 'Physical Graffiti'
This interview was originally published on February 23, 2015. By the time Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti in 1975, they no longer needed to prove anything. “All of us knew that it was a monumental piece of work, just because of the various paths that we’d trodden along to get …
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