Following the cancellation and postponements of major live music events like Coachella, SXSW, and Ultra in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced that its show will also not go on, at least not anytime soon. The Hall is postponing its May 2 induction ceremony for the 2020 […]
Teens can make anything cool. Their social-media superiority launched songs like 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 discovering (and […]
You know the story about Nero fiddling while Rome burns? Anyway, hereâs Kelly Clarkson swapping face-to-face airborne sing-spit with a literal fiddler as they parade through a packed-as-ever studio audience on The Kelly Clarkson Show Thursday morning. While other shows have agreed to stop filming in front of live studio audiences, Clarkson treated her devoted […]
A few nights ago, I joined more than 3,000 audience members from all over the world at the Metropolitan Opera for a performance of Wagnerâs The Flying Dutchman, about a shipâs captain doomed to drift endlessly, disembarking only briefly every seven years to search for his true love. At the time, the corona-infected cruise ship […]
Brandy Clark, one of country musicâs great songwriters and behind-the-scenes collaborators, has had a hand in writing hits for Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Sheryl Crow, Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, and more. But on March 6, she let the world in on an even lesser-known secret: Clarkâs been keeping her best work yet to […]
A lot of rappers say they love anime, but Lil Uzi Vert is the rare artist who deserves a series of his own. The Philly star is short in stature with a massive personality, a shit talker whoâs also in touch with his feelings, a sharp dresser with a flair for colorful hair. Like a […]
Even before the slime-green roots made their grand debut, Billie Eilish has long favored a boxy, oversize fashion aesthetic while out in public â a choice that she previously explained is not to avoid being sexualized as a young female musician, but rather because, simply, sheâs more comfortable wearing baggy clothes. During the opening of […]
Looks like youâll have to completely redo your festival wardrobe for a new season, but reportedly, youâll have the time. Just days after the organizers of SXSW decided to cancel this yearâs events in Austin over concerns about the spread of coronavirus, Billboard reports that both Coachella, scheduled to begin April 10, and Stagecoach are […]
Guess youâll have to wear all your festival outfits in the privacy of your own home this year. Just days after the organizers of SXSW decided to cancel this yearâs events in Austin over concerns about the spread of coronavirus, Billboard reports that both Coachella and Stagecoach are âin talksâ to be postponed until October […]
First a taping of The Price Is Right, and now a deli? If HAIM performs in your neighborâs driveway, theyâll essentially be on a tour of your dadâs favorite places on Earth. Instead, theyâre going on an official tour of the nationâs delis this month, specifically the delis in the part of the nation that […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine, the controversial rapper who was embroiled in a high-profile court case for crimes involving his former gang, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, will be released from prison on August 2. Complex confirmed the date with his attorney. The 23-year-old rapper, born Daniel Hernandez, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and five years […]
Itâs been 20 years since Eminem politely requested that the real Slim Shady please stand up and this time he is not messing around with these clones. Eminem emptied out his ideas notebook on the music video for âGodzilla,â which, yes, since you were clearly about to ask, does include human-size Godzillas walking alongside the […]
The lady and the courtroom are sure that Led Zeppelinâs âStairway to Heavenâ lawsuit is no more â for the second time. Per THR, the band has prevailed in the long-standing copyright battle spearheaded by fellow British rockers Spirit, who allege that âStairway to Heavenâ infringed upon their lesser-known jam âTaurus.â The Ninth Circuit Court […]
Blue Ivy Carter joined her dad, Jay-Z, at Sundayâs Lakers game and was introduced to LeBron James after the teamâs win. Their exchange, in which Blue looks deeply impressed for perhaps the first time in her eight years, is incredibly sweet. ESPN shared the video on Twitter: LeBron, Jay-Z and Blue Ivy after the Lakersâ […]
The Weeknd showed up to Saturday Night Live in full costume, but it wasnât funny business. It was very serious world-building business. The singer debuted his new single âScared to Liveâ with Oneohtrix Point Never on SNL sporting a red suit, wingback shoes, black gloves, and a very realistic, bandaged bloody nose. Itâs his new […]
A woman of 1,000 cinch-waisted lewks, one of Dolly Partonâs most memorable outfits came with a bunny tail and a malevolent-looking rabbit man. In her recent interview with 60 Minutes Australia, which airs Sunday night, the âJoleneâ singer said sheâd love to pose for Playboy again in a recreation of her 1978 cover photo shoot […]
With massive gatherings like South by Southwest canceling or contemplating cancellation in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, the idea of seeing a musician in a slight smaller venue doesnât sound so terrible to us. Hopefully Justin Bieber fans feel the same way, as the singer has just moved several of his upcoming tour […]
Anyone who teared up when that instrumental version of âReflectionâ hit in Disneyâs live-action Mulan trailer knows it would take something very special to compare to 16-year-old Christina Aguilera belting for the gods. So how about a 39-year-old Christina Aguilera belting for the gods? The singer dropped her new song âLoyal Brave Trueâ for the […]
You donât need us to tell you again about how much we like the Dixie Chicksâ new barn burner (and bed burner) âGaslighter,â their first official single in 14 years. Weâre not alone either: The single is behind only Demi Lovatoâs âI Love Meâ on the iTunes Top Songs chart at the time of writing. […]
In a week, the ongoing contract dispute between Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion and 1501 Certified Entertainment, the Texas indie record label that signed her in 2018, has rapidly devolved into one of the most lurid rap-label tiffs in recent memory. On Sunday, Megan told fans that 1501 was attempting to block the release of […]
In a certain world, you could sum up the mid-â90s with Stephen Malkmus, crying while drinking a martini, singing Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. Malkmusâs group, Pavement, is still one of the great examples of what was thought possible with guitars and irony at the dawn of the internet. Decades later, we caught up with the joke, and […]
Dua Lipa has predicted the latest trend: canceling group-fitness classes over coronavirus concerns and getting well fit in the comfort of your own apartment/quarantine chamber. That has to be the reason why she released the âLetâs Get Physical Work Out Videoâ today, after already releasing a somewhat less interactive music video for her single, âPhysicalâ […]
The Demi Lovato Come Back Tour continues. After over a year out of the limelight due to a relapse in July of 2018, Demi Lovato has spent 2020 reclaiming her space as one of pop musicâs most talented vocalists. It began with an emotionally devastating and vocally flawless performance of her ballad âAnyoneâ at the […]
R. Kelly faces new legal troubles in Chicago, as authorities have â very recently seizedâ over 100 electronic devices belonging to the disgraced R&B artist from a storage unit in suburban Chicago. Rolling Stone reports that on Thursday R. Kelly returned to court and plead not guilty to a revised 13 counts of federal charges […]
Katy Perry dropped the music video for her ballad âNever Worn Whiteâ at midnight on Thursday, and used it to reveal that she and fiancĂ© Orlando Bloom are pregnant with their first child. Perryâs fans are obviously very excited about both the baby and the new single, and Perry called into SiriusXM Hits 1 to […]
Our most beloved talented musicians are positively obsessed with stringing fans along by releasing every imaginable type of project but new music. The latest to do so? Kendrick Lamar. And his nonmusic passion? It isnât menswear. It isnât a fragrance, or a memoir, or making a feature-length kung-fu film. Itâs ⊠global, multilingual, creative media […]
Megan Thee Stallion took to ESPN, a natural platform for any rising musical artist, to chat about her faith in the Houston Rocketsâ postseason performance. But for those abreast of her recent record-label drama, the ESPN talk-show appearance was also a sly takedown of 1501 Certified Entertainment label CEO Carl Crawford, a former MLB star, […]
We can never hold that much of a grudge against the pop savant who gifted our planet with âOblivionâ and Art Angels, but Grimesâs relationship with billionaire industrialistâmad scientist Elon Musk has certainly alienated some of her fans. The very online singer-producer-dater-of-Musk knows this and addresses the political dissonance of her relationship in a recent […]
Demi Lovato cried seeing her 27th birthday cake and it wasnât just because cake is a heavenly food. The singer and Quibi host revealed on The Ellen Show that her previous management team would âcontrolâ her diet so much that she was never allowed to have things like birthday cake. Their control, which included removing […]
Even if the whole world knows that someoneâs a sex offender, the law dictates that a sex offender still must register as a sex offender. Thatâs the hard truth that Nicki Minajâs husband Kenneth Petty discovered upon failing to register in California, and now heâs being federally indicted. As TMZ reports, Petty was arrested during […]