Pop stans launching entire Twitter putsches over a new release from their chosen idols are nothing new. Hell hath no fury like a Barb scorned. BTS Army will take over any and all trending search terms. But /r/indieheads, and Fiona Apple fans, specifically (what do we call them? Idler Wheels?) are operating on a whole […]
Fiona Apple has swooped in to save the world, once again â this time from the monotony of quarantine by releasing her long-awaited new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, her first since 2012âs The Idler Wheel. The reclusive performer has built her career on her terms, telling Vultureâs Rachel Handler, âAlthough itâs not so important […]
Those of us wondering what, exactly, Lover Fest was to be will have to wait another year. Taylor Swift is the latest, and one of the most prominent, musicians to cancel performances in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Sheâs canceling all of her 2020 performances, including the semi-mysterious two-day Lover Fest East and West […]
As if it needs to be said, there wonât be many festivals this year, with cancellations creeping into the summer and others being pushed out of sight to the fall for time being. But fret not, because two perennial festival favorites dropped new music â and both to raise money for the response to COVID-19. […]
Kelly Rowland is craving some coffee. In her first single since 2019âs anti-bullying song âCrown,â Rowland sings an ode to âcoffee and sex in the morning.â âHmm, they say morninâ wood do a body good, babe,â she sings. âClearly you agree, donât be tryinâ to leave / Stay here with me.â Oop! So, thatâs why […]
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is like nothing Fiona Apple has done before, but the album is still recognizable as something only she could create. Itâs purposefully unvarnished, a raw export from the inside of her brain: Her voice stretches and loops, morphing into Vipassana chants and spooky, surreal yelps; in the middle of one song, […]
Fiona Apple FaceTimes me on a recent Friday afternoon from a bright-pink futon inside her Venice Beach home, her hair in a long braid, wearing giant headphones, a cozy green sweatshirt, and no makeup. The first thing she says is that sheâs nervous. âIâm like, Oh, shit,â she says, laughing. Her nerves are understandable. Apple, […]
It is possible to be born too early for the world to develop a language to understand the way that you move, and to be made to feel, throughout your formative years, like the difference between you and everyone else is a crime that warrants punitive action, an errant behavior or belief system you must […]
Like a bolt out of the blue, BeyoncĂ© came in out of nowhere and made a surprise drop in appearance on ABCâs Disney Family Singalong. âIâm very proud to be a part of the Disney family,â BeyoncĂ© said without ever mentioning the live action Lion King. âAnd to help present the Disney Songbook Singalong in […]
Whatâs the only thing better than one Ariana Grande? Six Ariana Grandeâs, of course. And thatâs precisely what we got Thursday night during ABCâs Disney Family Singalong when Ariana took on the love song âI Wonât Say Iâm In Loveâ from the classic film Hercules. Wearing Megaraâs signature purple, Ariana not only sang lead vocals […]
R. Kellyâs Brooklyn Federal Court trial for racketeering and sexual-misconduct charges has been moved from summer to late September, as the coronavirus shutdown has caused delays in the court system. During a telephone conference Thursday afternoon, Judge Ann M. Donnelly recognized that the July 7 trial date likely wasnât realistic, and scheduled jury selection for […]
The reviews are in for Playboi Cartiâs new song â@ MEH,â and one particularly important critic does not seem to be a fan. âJust Meh .,â Lil Uzi Vert tweeted, along with the cover art, on April 16. Uzi has been watching Carti over the past week, possibly waiting to make good on a promise […]
Teens can make anything cool. Their social-media superiority launched songs like âToosie Slide,â âOld Town Roadâ and âThe Boxâ to No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and every day, pop songs like Dua Lipaâs âDonât Start Nowâ become templates for teens to dance, lip-sync, or act to. But the creative geniuses on TikTok are also […]
Even in the comfort of her own home, Kehlani just wants some privacy. Thatâs the theme of her new song and music video, âEverybody Business,â anyway. In the song, she takes aim at the press and the internet always speculating about her relationships. And she shot the video where they canât see her, in her […]
Kelly Clarksonâs quarantine productivity is putting the rest of us to shame. Sheâs been recording new Kellyokes from her Montana ranch for her talk show, while also managing the premiere of her new movie, Trolls World Tour, and figuring out how to adapt the rest of this season of The Voice, on which sheâs a […]
Yes, all the kids are on TikTok now, but soon, they wonât be able to use the full app. TikTok announced that it will stop U.S. users under 16 â so, most of its biggest stars â from sending and receiving direct messages, according to a company blog post. Itâs the biggest change as part […]
Thereâs almost always a winner in a breakup, and when you had a very big and very famous breakup, the public tends to be the unsolicited judge determining who that winner is. Insert Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, who in this house we respectively recognize as the Queen of Pop and the singer who put […]
The audacity of Jamie xx to release a great new dance track while the clubs are closed and weâre all stuck in our homes. Guess weâll just have to improvise. The English producer and xx member formally dropped his song âIdontknowâ today, his first solo track since his beautiful first album, In Colour, in 2015. […]
This January, in the midst of creating Yeezy couture; a compound in Cody, Wyoming; and putting on weekly Sunday Services, Kanye West lost close friend Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter accident along with eight other people in Calabasas, California. West threw an emergency midnight Sunday Service that night, and just three days later, […]
The major test of American Idol comes from its live aspects: Contestants perform in one take for a live audience, with the judges staring them down front and center. So the coronavirus pandemic throws the show for a real loop, especially with the top 20 preparing to perform for Americaâs votes for the first time. […]
Much like Harry Stylesâs BFF Stevie Nicks, the fate and future of his former boy band One Direction has been embroiled in Rumours. Zayn Malik famously quit the band to go solo in 2015, and Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson put 1D on indefinite hiatus the following year. However, you may have […]
Quaran-who? Armed with a face mask in his new album art, DaBaby is not letting the coronavirus pandemic stop him. The rapper just announced that his upcoming album, Blame It on Baby, is out this Friday, April 17. Thatâs seven months after his last album, Kirk, and just 13 after his debut album, Baby on […]
What canât Lady Gaga do? With ample free time after delaying new album Chromatica, the star put on her glasses to organize a star-studded first-of-its-kind coronavirus special, One World: Together at Home. Sheâs already brought together the three major late-night hosts to emcee and worked with Global Citizen to raise a nice $35 million for […]
Demi Lovato may be on the cover of the May issue of Harperâs Bazaar, but the real story here is which teen stars she is, and isnât, still friends with. So letâs run through. Ariana Grande? âI love the fact that Ariana and I have such a supportive friendship because itâs hard to find,â Lovato […]
This is so exciting that we actually heard our pork rolls screaming from the fridge while gelling their hair. The New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund announced on Tuesday that the stateâs two foremost music royals, Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, will be coming together for a benefit show to raise money to âfight the […]
âEasy does it,â Kid Cudi urges on his new single âLeader of the Delinquents,â and the message couldnât come at a better time. The rapper dropped his new song, his first solo music since his 2016 album Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin,â and his first release since Kids See Ghosts, his collaboration with Kanye that spawned […]
As the world is upended, some things remain unchanged, chief among them men doing the least. Drakeâs âToosie Slide,â a song shamelessly created to be the next big TikTok hit, has debuted on top of the Billboard Hot 100. It replaces the Weekndâs âBlinding Lights,â which in turn replaced Roddy Ricchâs âThe Boxâ â two […]
In case you were unaware, the world celebrated a holiday on Sunday, April 12: the 15th anniversary of The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Careyâs supposed comeback album (though you could argue she was never gone), which featured such hits as âWe Belong Togetherâ and âItâs Like That.â It coincided with another holiday, Easter, a.k.a. The […]
Few performers were more tied to the career of folk songwriter John Prine, who died April 7 due to COVID-19, than Bonnie Raitt. Her 1974 performance of Prineâs âAngel From Montgomeryâ turned the song into the standard it is today, and sheâs often performed it with Prine. Raitt posted a video message from her home […]
Whether or not you personally celebrate Easter, we can all come together as one today to watch Andrea Bocelli just absolutely knock one out of the park.On Sunday, the famed Italian opera singer and an organist performed a concert, titled âAndrea Bocelli: Music for Hope,â from an empty Milan Cathedral, singing songs including âPanis Angelicus,â […]